You’re being manipulated. A well respected, highly influential news source has cast aside all journalistic integrity to shill for the liberal, GOP establishment candidate in this presidential race.
The New York Times, you say? MSNBC? The Washington Post? No. We all gave up on those “progressive” rags a long time ago.
Regrettably, the latest media outlet to assume a decidedly yellow hue during this heated primary cycle is the Drudge Report. It pains me to even write this. Drudge has always been both my first and last internet news stops of the day.
It’s often said, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Well, Drudge deals in pixels instead of ink, but the same principle applies.
Still, this is a fight worth having.
In past years, Matt Drudge has done a fair job of playing it down the middle during presidential primaries. Not this time. In the game of “Washington insider hold ‘em,” the Drudge Report is “all in” for Willard Mitt Romney. It’s not even subtle.
As the Politico reports: “Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the ‘elite media’ and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning… If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.”
Politico summarizes Drudge’s hit job on Gingrich: “The overnight Drudge Report banner: ‘Insider: Gingrich repeatedly Insulted Reagan.’ The headline linked to a devastating takedown by Elliott Abrams in the National Review, who wrote, among other things, that Gingrich had a long record of criticizing and undermining Reagan’s most transformative policies.”
Baloney. Sorry, Matt Drudge, but Mrs. Reagan’s vote of confidence carries considerably more weight than your shameless smear on behalf of the Massachusetts moderate.
Cherry picked quotes, biased headlines and hyperlinks to Newt-hating op-eds in order to patch together an ugly and distorted mosaic of the former House speaker is not journalism. It’s mercenary-style political prostitution.
At the top of Thursday’s Drudge was linked an opinion piece by another Romney surrogate, Ann Coulter, headlined “Re-elect Obama: Vote Newt!” In it, she skewers Mr. Gingrich and claims, “Romney is the most electable candidate.”
But Coulter’s exactly right about that whole McCain thing. He recently endorsed Romney too. So did Bob Dole. Interesting. And they’re both vehemently opposed to a Gingrich nomination as well.
See where this is going? What do Bob Dole and John McCain have in common? Is this really who we think is going to unseat Barack Obama? Mitt Romney: the ideo-political love child—figuratively speaking—of Bob Dole and John McCain?
The RINO is a slow, lumbering beast. It is foolishly and predictably drawn, over and again, toward that “moderate” watering hole. There, it hopes to attract that equally perplexing animal, the “independent.” From this liaison, it is believed a bevy of voting offspring will be produced.
Never happens. In fact, the mushy middle is exactly where that fierce predator—The Democrat—wants its Republican prey corralled. Ever seen Wild Kingdom? Not pretty.
RINO Republicans and liberal Democrats have something in common: they both mistakenly assert that conservative candidates are unelectable. Ronald Reagan proved them wrong and so will Newt Gingrich.
No, I’ve got news for Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter and the rest of the establishment GOP: As 2010 proved, and as I believe 2012 will show again, conservatives don’t shine to being told who our nominee is going to be.
We’ll pick him ourselves, thank you very much.
~ Kudos to Matt Barber for having the guts to post a story in the negative against the venerable Drudge who has become a guru with a cult following since Monica stained her dress. And JUST imagine it was all done scouring garbage.
Is Matt a true reporter? No. There are many bloggers and we do not claim we are. Does he even write an opinion pieces, do true research? Not to me. He does no more in my mind then posting links to news stories out there.
Don’t misunderstand. When I first began blogging, shoot when I was first introduced to the internet, Drudge was my first and only source for the longest time. He used to post a link to Free Republic. It is how I found them. It began my 12 year long dedicated research blogging/posting. It led to the biggest WOT blog for many years in our ongoing thread.
But to me, I stopped using Drudge long ago for many reasons and decided I would find and gather the news myself. Until the advent of Twitter of course. It surely was a great assistant.
The difference between spending hours, hundreds of emails and contacts to filter out true news and post sensational headlines is the mark of a dedicated blogger. Not the mark of a dress.
~ JP
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FLASHBACK FROM 2008: CONSERVATIVES IN TANK FOR OBAMA?: Matt Drudge appears to top the List
On top of the Drudge Report’s censorship of his ads about an Obama-communism link, conservative journalist Cliff Kincaid revealed today that other “conservative” websites and papers are balking at running ads or stories drawing public attention to Drudge’s censorship.
“It looks like some of the ‘conservative media’ are in the tank for Drudge, who is in the tank for Obama,” Kincaid said. Kincaid runs the America’s Survival public policy group and is editor of Accuracy in Media. He and veteran anti-communist investigator Herbert Romerstein wrote and released two lengthy and well-documented reports on Barack Obama’s communist connections. They are available at http://www.usasurvival.org, which is also where the censored ads can be viewed.
How Matt Drudge Censors the News
By Cliff Kincaid
At America’s Survival, Inc., we are continuing our public education campaign on the threats posed by communism and the United Nations. We expected opposition from the liberal media. But we are also running into a brick wall in the “conservative” media. The latest scandal is that both the daily and weekly editions of the Washington Times have killed our advertising drawing public attention to Matt Drudge’s censorship of our ads. That is, they refused to run our ads about the censored ads. Can it get any worse than this?
Our intention was to publicize information about Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist, and his associates, who included Barack Obama. Davis was a key member of a communist network in Hawaii that influenced Obama. One of our reports examined the communist network in Hawaii. The other report examined the communist and socialist network in Chicago. The lengthy reports are heavily documented, with exhibits from congressional hearings and testimony, and haven’t been challenged on factual grounds.
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck01.27.12.html