Posted on 03/09/2012 9:30:53 AM PST by jmstein7
Most people on the street don’t even know who Matt Drudge is, I bet.
I don’t know if they had a riff or not, but I noticed in 2008 that Drudge didn’t report on Obama like he reported on John Kerry.
I've been using this for news and haven't been pelted with random garbage. Drudge can go pound sand.
I would not know about Drudge as I have not visited his site in a couple of months now. He has jumped the shark IMHO.
Drudge can do with his site whatever he wants.
And you can follow it or not, as you like.
That’s freedom. Choice. What we defend and fight for in this country.
Same is true for Jim Robinson, TV networks, cable TV, Google, etc. etc.
If you don’t like another man’s viewpoint, express your own. Louder, if that’s what it takes.
Live with it and be thankful for our freedoms.
BTTT
Since then, his website is good for headlines and malware and not all that good for headlines.
I was hoping he might be a player once again this election, but apparently he's just a tool. His time in the sun has passed.
Interesting.
I dumped drudge with that massing number of negative articles about Newt thing.
I’ll not be back. I have a long memory.
Well, this may deserve further research.
But I was watching the Drudge website closely throughout the campaign.
I think that the critical thing was that Drudge was strongly opposed to Hillary. You can’t blame him, I suppose, since she probably threatened to get him after Monicagate. Hillary keeps her grudges forever.
What I noticed is that Drudge favored Obama over Hillary, until Hillary lost. Then he started attacking Obama, and he has done so ever since. If Obama won, it was because McCain handed it to him. As for Hillary, I strongly suspect that she would have been just as bad as Obama, if not worse. Pro-Muslim, pro-Communist, an Alinskiite from her college days. Much worse than Bill Clinton.
Drudge has been in the tank for Mitt Romney for the past month, and has helped slime the other GOP candidates. But that’s another matter. He certainly hasn’t favored Obama, as you can see just about every day on his website. He only sticks at the Birther issue, and so does everyone else.
A month or so ago, something was going on here regarding Drudge. Whoever runs or works on this site was concerned that drudge would pull his Free Republic link because of negative things being said about Drudge here, by us. I could be wrong, but I think drudge might have pulled his FR link (like a threat) and then put it back on. I think that links to popular sites brings in money??? Anyway, I think its time for me to put up or shut up too. I have been avoiding drudge since that happened. I will not go there again.
I do remember when Drudge had Freerepublic linked on his website then removed it. I haven’t been to his site in years so I don’t know if he ever linked it up again. I feel Drudge lost his credibility when he did that.
Yes, I believe Drudge did dump FR.
I dunno. I haven’t seen anything on Drudge that would cause me to not go there. But, then, I don’t expect anything but links, and go to a number of other places too, so I don’t think I’ve been exposed to any bias on Drudge’s part.
We need to be very careful, and not dump those who might be friends or neutral in a fit of pique because they don’t openly support our candidate.
Not sure, but the link is there right now.
I used to have Drudge's app on my IPad. During the Herman Cain dust-up, my Drudge alert kept going off with each false allegation against Cain. I canned the app because I found it deplorable that he was alerting app holders to allegations made by unnamed sources.
There is a link to “Free Republic” on Drudge’s site. I just checked.
Bill O'Reilly also mocked and dismissed them, which is yet another reason I stopped watching him years ago. I don't think I tuned him in even once since then.
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