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Bottom-Feeding Matt Drudge Hits New Low (vanity)
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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-.


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I don't like Mr. Drudge anymore.
1 posted on 03/04/2006 1:44:59 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: LK44-40

"Sister Sludge"..


2 posted on 03/04/2006 1:46:04 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: LK44-40

But don't you like his collection of hats?


3 posted on 03/04/2006 1:47:33 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: LK44-40

I still think Paula Abdul is a train wreck waiting tohappen but she is one fine looking women


4 posted on 03/04/2006 1:48:06 PM PST by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: LK44-40

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.


5 posted on 03/04/2006 1:49:28 PM PST by KamperKen
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To: LK44-40
I agree. I was suckered into clicking on a stupid and then regretted doing so. I sent Drudge a critical email and boycotted his web site for 6 months. Now I visit 1x a week or so and listen to his radio show when driving on Sunday nights.

He still intimidates the MSM which is a good thing.
6 posted on 03/04/2006 1:50:46 PM PST by Falconspeed (Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: LK44-40

hmmm.


7 posted on 03/04/2006 1:50:49 PM PST by newconhere
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To: LK44-40
Interesting. What set you off on this rant...


8 posted on 03/04/2006 1:51:39 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: LK44-40

When I found FR I quit Drudge.


9 posted on 03/04/2006 1:53:35 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: LK44-40

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.


10 posted on 03/04/2006 1:54:17 PM PST by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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To: LK44-40
I still use his page as a homepage because it is a good news source. However most of the good stories are not the "banner headlines." I stopped listening to his radio show some time ago, although I like when he give Ann Coulter a few minutes here or there. At one time he had new and breaking information on the political realm.

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.)

11 posted on 03/04/2006 1:54:25 PM PST by Fast Ed97
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I couldn't agree more. I stopped going to his site about 2 years ago because everything was alarmist and negative.


12 posted on 03/04/2006 1:54:58 PM PST by rpellegrini
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To: Reagan Man

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.


13 posted on 03/04/2006 1:56:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: LK44-40

Sorry, he gave a bad time to your hero, Bill Clinton.


14 posted on 03/04/2006 1:56:47 PM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: LK44-40

Like the Drudge site, but get about 6 or 7 spyware hits every time I click on it...


15 posted on 03/04/2006 1:57:44 PM PST by Libertina
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To: LK44-40

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.


16 posted on 03/04/2006 2:02:58 PM PST by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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To: LK44-40

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 ...


17 posted on 03/04/2006 2:03:23 PM PST by Babu
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You mean the little pictures with
"Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers"
beneath them???
18 posted on 03/04/2006 2:03:41 PM PST by SouthTexas
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To: Babu

Ditto.

Love the pic!


I'VE never been suckered into clicking on an ad on Drudge.


19 posted on 03/04/2006 2:08:52 PM PST by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
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To: Libertina
Having problems with spyware and adware. If you have Windows XP SP2, download this, its FREE!

Windows Defender

MIght want to check this out too. Windows One Care
Come May 2006, it will cost you $49.95 a year.

20 posted on 03/04/2006 2:08:55 PM PST by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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