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Journalists react in shock to Drudge Report header featuring Hitler and Stalin
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/9/13

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”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; enemedia; executiveorders; fascistmedia; guncontrol; guns; msm; obama; secondamendment
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“Why didn’t @Drudge just go all the way and put Obama’s photo between Adolph and Josef?” asked Michael Rosten
Hey Mikey! Ya mean like this
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1 posted on 01/09/2013 11:02:17 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

After years of similar accusations against Bush that they ignored, suddenly they are shocked — shocked, I tell you!


2 posted on 01/09/2013 11:04:48 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("If you're going through hell, keep on going."--Winston Churchill)
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To: Impala64ssa

Consequences of having a foreigner in the White House.


3 posted on 01/09/2013 11:05:31 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Impala64ssa

Well, there is an old saw about cooking a frog.

Put it in boiling water and it immediatly knows it is in trouble (e.g. conservatives) and jumps out vs putting it in a pot of cool water and slowly turning up the heat (liberals).

By the time liberals- and the frog - finds it’s being cooked, it will be too late.


4 posted on 01/09/2013 11:08:29 PM PST by llevrok (ObamaLand - Where young people go to retire)
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To: Impala64ssa

Drudge did good, when he ran those two pics.


5 posted on 01/09/2013 11:08:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Impala64ssa

it’s shocking to msm journalists becuase someone actually published the truth for a change.


6 posted on 01/09/2013 11:16:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The image doesn’t work.

One puppet master with two puppets makes sense. Two puppet masters with one puppet does not.


7 posted on 01/09/2013 11:17:13 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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To: Jonty30

Too bad he forgot Mao.


8 posted on 01/09/2013 11:19:36 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (I don't Trust a Government that doesn't Trust me. How about you Comrade?)
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To: Impala64ssa

I am currently reading “The Roosevelt Myth” by John T. Flynn, (originally published in 19480 and I am horrified by the parallels between their political careers, their economic illiteracy, their self-importance, and their overall incompetence/naivete’.

When Archie Bunker sang about how “We could use a man like Hoiboit Hoover again”, you have NO idea how correct he was!

The press has been in the dimrats’ pockets FAR longer than you realize.

Oh PLEASE, America, WAKE UP!


9 posted on 01/09/2013 11:19:58 PM PST by Don W (There is no gun problem, there is a lack of humanity problem!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Those snots are so out of touch.
Nothing shocking at all.
Drudge was right on!


10 posted on 01/09/2013 11:22:38 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Jonty30
Please show me a real MSM journalist. All work beneath the thumbs of elitist progressives, big government, or criminal banksters. Drudge and others in alternative media, along with sites like FR, provide the only reliable sources of unvarnished truth.
11 posted on 01/09/2013 11:22:46 PM PST by Errant
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12 posted on 01/09/2013 11:24:05 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Don W
The press has been in the dimrats’ pockets FAR longer than you realize.

And how exactly can the GOP combat that? I have no idea.

13 posted on 01/09/2013 11:24:05 PM PST by eekitsagreek
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To: Impala64ssa

So, when the Hollywood crowd made a Movie about assassinating President Bush, a sitting President at the time, all these “Journalists” rose up in outrage?

I must have missed that.


14 posted on 01/09/2013 11:25:10 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (I don't Trust a Government that doesn't Trust me. How about you Comrade?)
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To: Impala64ssa

bttt


15 posted on 01/09/2013 11:28:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Albion Wilde

Well, at least he hasn’t gotten us into a big war yet. I will be so glad when my son gets home from Afghanistan.


16 posted on 01/09/2013 11:44:19 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Impala64ssa
The media is so out of touch in what many of us see him as a dictator. Drudge headlines say it straight up. It was shocking to see though truth sometimes is hard to see for some.
17 posted on 01/09/2013 11:46:51 PM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Bush loved America. The Obama communist monster dictator hates America and wants America destroyed


18 posted on 01/09/2013 11:48:13 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Impala64ssa

there is a stranger in our house.


19 posted on 01/09/2013 11:48:56 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Christie at the beach

Good for Drudge. Finally someone says the truth


20 posted on 01/09/2013 11:49:01 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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