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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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To: Impala64ssa

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then . . .


101 posted on 01/10/2013 9:24:52 AM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Albion Wilde

Drudge is right. This is a Reichtag fire.

This is not about gun control debate, this is a paramilitary terror police state coup in favor of the democrates, is all it is (polical as they like to repeat against us).


102 posted on 01/10/2013 9:26:35 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Impala64ssa
“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.”

I was mocking Weigel yesterday, but I don't who you are, that there is funny!

“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.

Because, as you've proven, you sad little man, you would know exactly what he was saying without doing that.

“The new gold standard in Godwin’s Law violations,” wrote Business Insider’s Joseph Weisenthal in reaction to the picture.

Yes, a guy who was mentored by Marxists and hanging out with terrorists is considering an executive order that would wipe out an entire amendment in the Bill of Rights...gee, you're right, so over the top to mention dictators.

“Current splash on Drudge Report should satisfy the entirety of their mouthbreather audience,” tweeted the Huffington Post’s Drew Guarini.

Somebody's butthurt and crying for attention.

103 posted on 01/10/2013 9:31:43 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Don't worry about the cliff. We're going to all land on some rich guy's wallet.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The image that is coming after they get all the guns is one of people being loaded onto trains and taken to the death camps.


104 posted on 01/10/2013 9:40:41 AM PST by Revel
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To: Albion Wilde

They must have been very shocked if it caused them to pull their lips away from Obama’s anus long enough to comment.


105 posted on 01/10/2013 9:59:58 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: zeestephen
Obama’s face framed between a couple of Chicago gang bangers.

Not exactly what you had in mind but it is in the neighborhood.
Obama greets one of his former street agitators which goes to
show that he hasn't forgotten his roots on the streets of Chicago.


106 posted on 01/10/2013 10:14:23 AM PST by Ron H. (America on the fast track to oblivion.)
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To: Impala64ssa
This is the sort of thing that drives me nuts about today's national journalists: the surprise, the skepticism, the sheer insularity displayed here that comes from swimming solely in their exclusive little tank. These people are driving the country toward a Constitutional crisis and a possible shooting war and they are absolutely blithe about the thing. While they flatter themselves that their role has changed from reporting the news to making it, they turn out to be missing it altogether.

Drudge isn't being inflammatory, he's being descriptive. Someone in the MSM had better start paying attention.

107 posted on 01/10/2013 10:16:45 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Hoodat

Im mad at Drudge over this. He’s paying a compliment to the Kenyan you know Lenin and Stalin are his Heros.

But the Rats are a long way from getting the guns of Americans. Who cares what the Kenyan says and where does this illegal get off telling the citizens of our Country what to do. He is a tool and a fool.


108 posted on 01/10/2013 10:28:11 AM PST by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: Hoodat

Im mad at Drudge over this. He’s paying a compliment to the Kenyan you know Lenin and Stalin are his Heros.

But the Rats are a long way from getting the guns of Americans. Who cares what the Kenyan says and where does this illegal get off telling the citizens of our Country what to do. He is a tool and a fool.


109 posted on 01/10/2013 10:29:12 AM PST by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Liberals can sling sh!t, but they can’t take it themselves. Bed-wetting creeps.


110 posted on 01/10/2013 10:35:03 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
And then there's Michelle, who talks about 0bama like he is Jesus and repeatedly BASHES America as 'too mean', etc..

She also admits he is a KENYAN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3-MGHFXkc
(Forward to the 2 minute mark)

And she also says "America is a country that is guided by fear".. WTF, FUMO!! FU B!TCHAZZ GHETTO TRASH FUMO!!

111 posted on 01/10/2013 10:45:41 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Democrat_media; Ol' Dan Tucker; RFEngineer

When George W. Bush was 13, his family acquired a nanny:

“She was standing on the doorstep, alone in the rain. She looked tired and scared. A few days earlier, Paula Rendon had said goodbye to her family in Mexico and boarded a bus bound for Houston. She arrived with no money and no friends. All she had was an address, 5525 Briar Drive, and the names of her new employers, George and Barbara Bush.”[Decision Points, By George W. Bush]

Dubya goes on:

“I was thirteen years old when I opened the door that evening in 1959. Before long, Paula became like a second mother to my younger brothers and sister and me. She worked hard, taking care of our family in Texas and her own in Mexico. Eventually she bought a home and moved her family to Houston.”


112 posted on 01/10/2013 11:22:40 AM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: eekitsagreek
And how exactly can the GOP combat that? I have no idea.

Maybe they will have to spend some of the money they have made under capitalism to defend themselves from they Tyranny of Taxation With Out Representation.

Pledge their lives their fortunes their Sacred Honor.........

113 posted on 01/10/2013 11:30:46 AM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
I can’t do anything about it anyway. I will promise you that I will never vote for another Bush for as long as I live. He was an awful President in many ways... no argument from me... he did some good things but I cannot argue with the basic premise that you state.

LLS

114 posted on 01/10/2013 11:40:27 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: SparkyBass

Your memory is better than mine. ;^)


115 posted on 01/10/2013 11:46:05 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It is easy to remember a “vacuum” of things! :)


116 posted on 01/10/2013 12:01:13 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: eekitsagreek

In the coming war, the first people to be killed will be the journalists.


117 posted on 01/10/2013 12:04:07 PM PST by Delta Dawn
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To: Ron H.
Close enough, Ron, thanks.

One of these days I'm going to teach myself to do PhotoShop.

118 posted on 01/10/2013 12:11:04 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
One of these days I'm going to teach myself to do PhotoShop.

I juat wish I could afford to buy Photoshop.

119 posted on 01/10/2013 1:01:11 PM PST by Ron H. (America on the fast track to oblivion.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Holy crap! Never saw that. Straight from the wookies mouth, Barack Obama a Kenyan. Incredible, and all this is ignored. That’s the thing about liberals: Breaking the law is OK as long as you ignore the law. 10 gabillion illegals invading the country is OK if we ignore the law. Fraud, election fraud and ignoring the constitution is OK if we ignore it. And if we can’t get around the law, well then let’s just make new ones that are blatantly unconstitutional like gun laws. “the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed”...Yes let’s ignore the word “people” and “shall not” and instead play totalitarian statist.


120 posted on 01/10/2013 1:07:19 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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