Drudge is a right-wing Internet “reporter”. I use the term “reporter” loosely. He is a weasel with a hugely popular website, "The Drudge Report", a website chalked full of nothing more than headline links to legitimate news sites. Once in a great while he gets what he calls “an exclusive”, which may or may not be true. His track record for the truth is nothing to be proud of. But, as long as he sticks to linking to legitimate news sites, his site can be a rather interesting mish-mash of news from around the world.
But be forewarned, Matt Drudge will link up to any news story that mentions The Drudge Report simply because they’ve mentioned The Drudge Report. He does this so that everyone can see how important he is. I sent him an email a couple years ago asking if it was hard to type while tooting one’s own horn.
Needless to say, I never got a response.
Back to Drudge’s plan to divide and conquer the Democratic Party. Drudge knows that he can’t alienate half of his audience by only reporting favorable headlines for the Republicans. He also can’t come right out and bash the Dems. So his modus operandi is going to be to link to any and every story he can find that shines a less than favorable light on any and every Democratic candidate.
Any bit of gossip (whether true or not), any bit of backbiting or sniping, and you can bet it will be a headline on Drudge. His screaming headlines about Obama being a Muslim (which were proven to be untrue) have already been deleted from his archives. But that’s how he works. Print it, and if it turns out to be less than truthful, just delete it, regardless of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have already seen it and believed it because it was on The Drudge Report. He's Fox News for the net.
As I said, Matt Drudge is a weasel. A Republican weasel, which is odd, since he’s gay. But, whatever floats your boat. I have never linked to The Drudge Report because he is such a weasel. Perhaps I’ll start, if for no other reason than to point out the obvious tactics he’s using against the Dems.
This is his screaming headline as of this moment, which reads:
SEN. BIDEN SHOCK INTERVIEW: 'I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy'...
This is the link to the Biden story. For some reason, page 2 and page 3 of this interview are no longer showing up at the bottom of page one. But you can access them through the links above.
I am not making light of Biden’s obviously bigoted comment. We certainly need to know if our presidential candidates are closet racists. But the reason for my post was to point out The Drudge Report’s tactics for reporting only the negative, in glaring headlines. First Drudge is churning out lies about Obama’s religious beliefs, and then he’s showing him as the victim of a racist comment by a fellow candidate.
All of this is to cast a negative light on the entire Democratic Party. And as popular as The Drudge Report (as a gossip rag) is, I dare say this tactic might just work.
And as far as Biden’s comment goes, he may have just pulled a Macaca and sealed his own fate.
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