Drudge appears to be throwing Conservatives under the bus.
I wish I had a screenshot of the chick on the SNL skit saying, “Like so many of us in the media, we are totally in the tank for Obama...”
Your premise is is almost as retarded as calling Romney a conservative
Drudge is definately in the tank
Not just with the polls either
I’ve noticed every McCains gaffe gets attention
I’ve noticed every time I go to Drudge, there’s a huge picture of BHO
Stopped Drudge, I couldnt take it anymore.
Yes.
Drudge has been a waste of time since shortly before he left his radio show. He’s often late or last to post a headline that’s already been covered here or elsewhere. He also fails to cover headlines at all that he would have covered in the past.
Drudge has changed, but not for the better.
I’ve quit going to drudge.Just FR now.
Nahhh..Drudge posted how all of the anchors went with the Obamessiah and only one reporter showed up for McCain at NH.
When even the Cracked News Network is having segments on how much the coverage is unfair, its time to stop trying to put the the proverbial elephant (or donkey in this case), under the rug.
Drudge wishes he could have a Larry Sinclare moment with BO, sure he’s in the tank with him.
You can contact Drudge through his hot tips form on the Drudge Report page.
Don’t click on Drudge Report and don’t watch Fox News, that’s easy. They are all turning out for Barry Hussein Obama.
This from the Wikipedia article on Drudge:
“Drudge’s critics, like gay American writer and national talk radio host Michelangelo Signorile,[26][27] point to the allegations of homosexuality levelled at Drudge himself by David Brock of Media Matters in his memoir Blinded by the Right,[28][29] and by columnist Jeannette Walls in her book Dish.[30][31][32][33] However, Drudge denied Walls’s claim that he is gay, telling the Miami New Times in 2001 that “I go to straight bars, I go to gay bars. [Walls] never said there was sex; she said there was dating. She never had enough to go that far.”[34]”
Draw your own inferences.
I posted months ago on here that Drudge was in the tank for Obama and some people criticized me for it.
He obliterated Hilary Clinton daily and downlowed every negative Obama story including the Reverend Wright controversy. Almost every picture of Obama is glowing and favorable as are the stories he links about him.
He’s doing the same now to McCain.
Drudge's Obama Crush
One of the theories for how Obama wins the general is that he blows up (or keeps blowing up) into a massive pop-cultural/marketing phenomenon that completely drowns out anything the McCain campaign says or does. The Nike of politics probably beats some old white guy most days of the week. Particularly when the old white guy's party faces historically low levels of popularity.
If you're banking on this scenario--and there are probably worse ways to win an election--then you have to be encouraged by the piece Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith have in today's Politico. It's mainly about Matt Drudge's apparent affinity for Obama and his tepidness toward McCain. But the most interesting part has to do with the reason Drudge might favor Obama. Jonathan and Ben report that:
Others who know Drudge say Obama benefits from the site’s bias for a good story, and above all for the Next Big Thing.
“I think he is fatigued by Clinton, I think he is invigorated by Obama,” said one person who knows Drudge. “He would say that the Obama story is new. If you’re somebody who does what he does, you get really sick of the same stories.”
“He’s interested in what brings people to the site — and Obama is a great box office,” said Jim Dyke, the communications director for the Republican National Committee in 2004. Asked if McCain could fix his Drudge problem, Dyke replied, “I don’t think there is very much you can do.” ...
Drudge-watchers noted that his traffic is increasingly international, bringing him an audience for whom a young charismatic and cosmopolitan Democrat who defies ethnicity is a fascination — unlike his opponent, just another white Republican male.
Drudge, who in keeping up his Salinger-like air of mystery declined to comment for this story, was quick to tout his transnational appeal in a rare interview with the British Sky News late last year.
“It’s become sort of an international clearing ground of news — not just American news, not just British news, not just European news — anywhere news,” he said. “This to me is the future, no boundaries.”
If you take Drudge as a leading indicator, the Obama pop-cultural-phenomenon strategy seems to be on track. (Granted, foreigners don't vote. But if Obama is becoming an international phenomenon, the same is probably happening in this country to some extent.)
--Noam Scheiber
Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:28 PM
Yes