Posted on 01/09/2013 11:02:05 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Shocked journalists this afternoon were quick to react to the Drudge Report’s controversial header photo comparing President Obama to Hitler and Stalin. The item linked to a Weekly Standard article reporting that President Obama was willing to address the gun issue with an executive order.
“Hitler and Stalin!” exclaimed BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith on Twitter alerting most of his followers by linking directly to the Drudge Report.
“Drudge rules our world,” responded Slate journalist David Weigel to Smith’s post on Twitter, later adding sarcastically, “SOMETHING SHOCKING HAS BEEN POSTED ON THE INTERNET.”
“Our right is nuttier than your right (US to 193 countries),” wrote the Al-Monitor’s Laura Rozen.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent begged his followers not to talk about or visit the Drudge Report.
“Dear everyone: Talking about how Drudge’s visuals are ruse to get attention = giving Drudge attention,” he wrote.
“Also, don’t link to Drudge – link to twitpic,” the Washington Post’s James Downie added.
“Why didn’t @Drudge just go all the way and put Obama’s photo between Adolph and Josef?” asked Michael Rosten, a social media editor for the New York Times.
“The new gold standard in Godwin’s Law violations,” wrote Business Insider’s Joseph Weisenthal in reaction to the picture.
“Seriously Drudge?” asked Newsweek’s Michael Moynihan who added a link to one of his own columns, “Someone needs to read my @tabletmag column.”
“Yep, Obama is just like Hitler and Stalin by trying to clean up databases on gun purchases and violence,” Sam Stein from the Huffington Post tweeted sarcastically.
“Has the Drudge Report ever been Drudgier than it is right now?” tweeted The Washington City Paper’s Mike Madden.
“Drudge thinks that there hasn’t been enough Drudge talk lately,” surmised Mike Memoli a reporter in the Tribune/LA Times DC Bureau.
“Really? Drudge is shocking people?” asked Roll Call’s David Drucker sarcastically. “C’mon.”
“Whoa. Drudge sending a message today. Wow,” tweeted Breitbart.com’s Matthew Boyle.
“So Drudge is right now comparing President Obama to Hitler and Stalin on his homepage,” reported John Avlon, a Senior Columnist for Newsweek & The Daily Beast.
“Current splash on Drudge Report should satisfy the entirety of their mouthbreather audience,” tweeted the Huffington Post’s Drew Guarini.
“Disgusting,” tweeted The Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel retweeting a Teletubbies parody of the controversial headline tweeted by the @HuffPostHill account. The message read: “Drudge has crossed the line: pic.twitter.com/BYCn6MPE”
So, to the leftist chattering class, the shocking thing is not behaving like a dictator, it’s being called out for it. I get it.
Who cares what the journo-lists think.
They conspired to install this puke, they own it. F em. Let’s make a map with their names and addresses.
‘W’s sister in law is Mexican ~ allegedly here legally (married to the fat Bush). She had undue and unfair influence on him.
That's mostly because they are ~
The Leftwing faction in media is the Country’s greatest threat.
This reminds me of an old saying. Not sure who said it.
“If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yells the loudest is the one that got hit”
Hoover was a disaster on fiscal matters similar to Bush. What we need is another Calvin Coolidge.
A stranger who knew all along, over the last couple of years, exactly the rationale for government purchases of millions of rounds of hollow point bullets.
“Journalists” have an aversion to truth unless it fits their agenda.
Why is the old MSM making such a BIG DEAL over what Drudgereport posts? MYOB.
Exactly. Hoover was a big government progressive. That philosophy has been the ruin of this country.
If the foo shi’ites..
In my best Breitbart voice..(clears throat) “So”?
Truth hurts. And it reflects the sentiments of most voters I know. THe actions of this administration are on the exact same path as every tyrant in history.
Boycott media advertisers (that's how the Left drove Beck from Fox) and support Fox and Beck's network.
Well, you’d better tell him to leave the service when he gets back. The BARACK is already planning bigger ones. He’s already sent a whole lot of soldiers (advisors) to dozens of African countries. There can be no good to come from this.
Sure, George had-to-destroy-FreeMarket-to-save-it” Bush loves America....that’s why he spent so much of OP’s money too.
Stay out of the Bush’s, they don’t love you or this country!
Sure, George had-to-destroy-FreeMarket-to-save-it” Bush loves America....that’s why he spent so much of OP’s money too.
Stay out of the Bushs, they don’t love you or this country!
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