Posted on 03/04/2006 1:44:57 PM PST by LK44-40
Yes, I know...I WENT TO HIS SITE. IT IS MY FAULT. (not BUSH's fault, MY fault)
It is a sin I rarely commit. Only when I am rooting around everywhere for tidbits on some breaking story of special interest.
He is so full of cheap tricks and scumbag self-promotion that he long ago exhausted any credit he was due for his role in exposing the tawdry antics in the Oval Office under its previous occupant.
There are so many reasons not to visit Drudge: no news judgment, obsession with Hollywood, insignificant but titilating stories of the rich and stupid, his weird and ridiculous personna, his absurd self-justifications, but, MOST OF ALL, his hiring out of his site to the scum of the internet marketing world so they can bombard visitors to the site with very aggressive and unwanted advertising. (Never, never visit that site unless you are using protection.)
(Oh, did I forget to mention the regular Sunday night siren -- the siren like the Seinfeld show...the siren about nothing -- to draw people to his radio "show," the one that made Wayne's World look like it had high production values?)
How can you go lower from all of this?
Sludge now has on his site (maybe this has been going on a while....as I say, I avoid the place) what appear to be "legitimate Drudge news items" which are actually ads. I clicked on one with some hot medical news debunking "the cholesterol myth." Okay, my bad! But it looks just like another news item ~except~ for the tiny script below it that urges you to support Drudge advertisers. Yea, Drudge, you can count on it.
This is like those junk mailers who send out their garbage in envelopes that make them look like government checks.
Yea, you're quite the muck-raking journalist, Drudge. And that's -30-.
"Sister Sludge"..
But don't you like his collection of hats?
I still think Paula Abdul is a train wreck waiting tohappen but she is one fine looking women
If you listen to his radio program, he's conservative/libertarian. His website unfortunately largely acts as a megaphone for the lying propaganda of the main stream press. I find I avoid his screaming tabloid headlines now and read the more sober assessments one can get from the intelligently written blogs.
hmmm.
When I found FR I quit Drudge.
It just so happens, FreeRepublic has a link to Drudge on its homepage. Most folks visit daily. The fact you don't like Drudge won't change the surfing habits of 99.999% of folks.
His radio program is almost like a People magazine talk format..he is infatuated with Hollywood and movies and the "hidden cameras" that keep popping up in high crime neighborhoods. And more importantly, his bumper music sucks (sounds like some kind of gay bar DJ.)
I couldn't agree more. I stopped going to his site about 2 years ago because everything was alarmist and negative.
It's amazing how many people like someone who tells them what they want to hear but dislike them when they say something they don't like.
Sorry, he gave a bad time to your hero, Bill Clinton.
Like the Drudge site, but get about 6 or 7 spyware hits every time I click on it...
I haven't been to his ugly site since I found out that he gives you ad ware.
Besides, his site is just links to other sites with news. Anybody with or without talent could have created his site.
The sensationalism and blatant ads turned me off.
No more drudge for me.
If you surf the Internet, you should have learned to distinguish between ads and non-ads by now. Rocket science it ain't ...
If you have a good spyware program (as you should if you travel the Internet) Drudge Report or any other site won't cause you computer problems. Drudge is the home page on three computers in our household and we have zip/zero/nada computer problems ...
If you don't like Drudge (or any other web site), the solution is simple, just say no, and don't go there! As the saying goes, to each his own ... How many web sites are there to visit and you're all worked up and posting vanities on FR about one of them??
Better get back on your meds and get a life ... sounds like you're about to burst a blood vessel there ...
Ditto.
Love the pic!
I'VE never been suckered into clicking on an ad on Drudge.
MIght want to check this out too. Windows One Care
Come May 2006, it will cost you $49.95 a year.
"Like the Drudge site, but get about 6 or 7 spyware hits every time I click on it..."
A pretty serious negative. That's quite high, isn't it?
Tell us what you really think of Drudge.
I had forgotten about drudge. Haven't visited his site in a couple of years. Last time I went there I got a virus.
Drudge has succumbed to the dreaded "Show Biz Syndrome". I am a veteran of 32 years of dealing with these walking egos, as a weather-caster at a local NBC TV station, and watching the newcomers go through the metamorphosis, makes the symptoms easy to spot. They become media creatures and they just can't seem to get over themselves
The camera (or microphone) can bring about a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde change in a lot of people. Maybe that is what seems to be leading Drudge toward the "dark side".
If you don't like my vanities, the solution is simple, just say no, and don't go there!
Or you could put up a post trying to control what others post if that's your bag....
I have noticed that Drudge has cut down on the pop ups. I like to visit his site.
Defeating the new annoying Drudgereport.com popbehind ads
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132766/posts
Drudge Site Ripe with Computer Slowing Spyware
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986706/posts
A New Battleground In Web Privacy War: Ads That Can Snoop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971445/posts
Anti-Spyware Programs Clean but Don't Disinfect
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264419/posts
PestPatrol Shares Spyware Lessons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163511/posts
Link to free security software
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077138/posts
Now, Every Keystroke Can Betray You
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487036/posts
Tangled in Spyware
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263833/posts
I dropped him as my home page several years ago after he started bombarding me with his pop up ads. Like Rush Limbaugh, he lost his appeal when he moved to Florida.
I'm not wasting valuable FR bandwidth with inane vanities. That would be you doing that.
I felt a FR community responsiblity to point out to you a simpler solution to your problem, which apparently had escaped you: that of just avoiding a web site that increases your blood pressure.
All part of a Mulligan stew. The ingredients are American. Throw in broadcast/internet/talk radio/ criminal CNN etc. IMHO.
I cleaned out the spyware and just went to Drudge and did not click on any links on the site. I got 2 trackers from just going to the site. (doubleclick.net and tribalfusion.com) If you move around on the site bringing up links the trackers will pile up. - tom
No....you are wasting valuble FR bandwidth with inane cartoons proving that you have a louder mouth than anyone else on the thread.
I find it odd that you're so peeo'd about your latest Drudge visit that you're posting a vanity ripping his website. It shouldn't be a newsflash that the guy has to sell advertising to make his living. Granted, you may have been tricked into clicking onto an advertisement instead of something you thought was a news story, but now you know.
And FYI, Drudge has reported on many issues important to conservatives and I'm glad to have him as an alternative news source to the MSM.
Confucius say, don't start inane vanity threads, and you don't get made fun of, Chicken Little, aka Captain Hyperbole ...
What took you so long?
Mr. Drudge is a person of low intelligence who saved Clinton's Presidency. (By deflecting talk about the bullet hole in Ron Brown's head with his sensational story about an ingenue.) I listened to his radio show maybe two or three times when it was new, and it was just an interminable tease. His website has links to lots of other places. Wow! What a concept! But you have to give the guy credit! Few others have been as successful with as little to offer as Drudge has.
ML/NJ
Drudge has some fun stuff on occasion.
I don't visit as much as I used to but yersterday I saw the back side of an Oscar figurine, and I almost choked from laughing.
It wasn't Confucius but someone said -- and I offer to you for what benefit you can take -- don't come to a battle of wits unarmed.
Oh, and another wee bit of advice: Don't say ridiculously puffed up things like your "responsibility to the community."
Reactions to my post -- I haven't counted -- were about 50/50 pro and con. But ~you~ take it upon your grandiose self to say that this little thread should not exist, albeit in an infantile manner.
I certainly will check with you (and I hope others who have "wasted bandwidth" here expressing their anti-Drudge sentiments will also consult you) before posting anymore vanities.
When we are blessed with someone who is able to speak eloquently on behalf of "the community," well, we would all be fools not to consult such a sage.
ROFLMAO, in public, at your puffed-up notion of your self.
Without Drudge America would be ruled by the Clinton oligarchy.
We conservatives would be forced to read Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivans weekly. Free Republic would be banned. Hillary would be President again. Al Gore would own Clear Channel and Bill Clinton would be U.N. sec.
Rush, Sean Hannity, BOR, Tony Show would be forced to give equal time on their shows to left wing liberal moon bats.
Democratic Underground would be legally forced to be your homepage.
We owe our very lives to Matt Drudge, you should bow down and worship him.
Hey! You guys aren't confusing "drudge.com" and
"drudgereport.com" are you? drudge.com is a parody of
the drudgereport.com web site.
The point is, if he wants to be a quality website for news... he shouldn't be putting adware crap on his website.
ohfercryinoutloud.
Personally, I am speaking of the ~real~ Drudge. I would hate to have the job of parodying him! It would be like trying to draw a caricature of Dolly Parton. The reality just leaves you nowhere to go! ;-)
Personally, I am speaking of the ~real~ Drudge. I would hate to have the job of parodying him! It would be like trying to draw a caricature of Dolly Parton. The reality just leaves you nowhere to go! ;-)
*nevermind*
You've been here 6 months. You're not interesting. Your post contains few facts and little genuine argument. If you have nothing to say, go say it on Democratic Underground.
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