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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

How fun— the metrosexuals are all weighing in.


21 posted on 01/09/2013 11:50:58 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Impala64ssa

Lol, these Leftists don’t like history!


22 posted on 01/09/2013 11:52:10 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Impala64ssa

Good for you Drudge. Good to see someone willing to tell it like it is. It would be nice if the spineless and gutless Republicans would sit up and take notice instead of cringing like wilting pansies under their rocks.


23 posted on 01/09/2013 11:54:15 PM PST by Ron H. (America on the fast track to oblivion.)
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To: Democrat_media
Bush loved America.

Puh-leeze. If Bush loved America, why did he do so much for Mexican illegal aliens?

24 posted on 01/09/2013 11:55:13 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: eekitsagreek

Every time they publish a half-truth or an outright falsehood, they need to be sued.

Hold them accountable financially. Tie them up in court for years. Bankrupt them until they’re too frightened to do anything but report the bare facts.


25 posted on 01/09/2013 11:58:57 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

He was wrong on that and the GOP congress slapped him down on that (Amnesty). Bush still loved America.

focus, your rights are being taken away by a communist monster named Obama Bush is no longer president . I know you may be liberal but you are wrong too as all democrats want to do is take away individual rights like gun ownership rights and freedom.


26 posted on 01/09/2013 11:58:57 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I can’t believe this nightmare . The greatest society ever ( the U.S.) and the news media gets a piece of crap , communist, anti-American ,monster elected dictator for life.

Sometimes I feel like is this real, is this piece of crap really president? and then I feel like after waking up from a nightmare and you say “oh it was only a nightmare” but you then realize you are in the nightmare. the horror. All I want is secession.


27 posted on 01/10/2013 12:03:39 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Impala64ssa

Left-wing journalists evidently are mentally retarded.
Or Maybe Drudge Report should put Obama’s photo between Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe


28 posted on 01/10/2013 12:04:40 AM PST by granada
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To: Democrat_media

Yes, and that is exactly why we can never give up our firearms. I do not trust the community organizer from Chicago as far as I can throw him.


29 posted on 01/10/2013 12:13:13 AM PST by entropy12 (The republic is doomed when people figure out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)
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To: gleeaikin
With 0bama as CINC I would hope my son/daughter would be getting their discharge ASAP.
30 posted on 01/10/2013 12:14:25 AM PST by TYVets
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To: Albion Wilde

They media people that tweeted in a his sy miss the point. I viewed Drudge today as saying Obama’s actions on guns are the same as those of Stalin and Hitler. The context the twits miss is the discussion is about taking away guns.

Are the policies of the three men the same when it comes to guns?


31 posted on 01/10/2013 12:18:11 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: entropy12

Community organizer = communist agitator


32 posted on 01/10/2013 12:20:59 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Impala64ssa
Google Image Search: Bush Hitler
33 posted on 01/10/2013 12:21:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The excruciating pain of the truth.


34 posted on 01/10/2013 12:23:11 AM PST by monocle
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To: granada
Better still...

Obama’s face framed between a couple of Chicago gang bangers.

35 posted on 01/10/2013 12:25:15 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: Albion Wilde; All

The definitive argument to my mind is in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKq4388GbxM

I agree with Whittle. I don’t like people comparing the President of the USA to either Josef Stalin or Adolf Hitler, but what I really detest is the selective outrage.


36 posted on 01/10/2013 12:27:50 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Impala64ssa

37 posted on 01/10/2013 12:30:27 AM PST by Lancey Howard (A school is supposed to be a safe place? Yeah, so is a womb.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Speaking of Executive Orders...

No one seems to have noticed that last week Obama gave “Executive Order” Amnesty to 1 million MORE illegal immigrants.

In 2012, he gave “Executive Order” Amnesty to 1.8 million illegal DREAM Act immigrants.

Just 8.2 million more illegals to go!

38 posted on 01/10/2013 12:35:14 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: Impala64ssa

You mean, the liberal pom-pom wearing MSM jornOlists are shocked about their god being compared to their other heroes in Stalin? I’m shocked ..s/


39 posted on 01/10/2013 12:40:16 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America; Impala64ssa
Consequences of having a foreigner in the White House.

Exactly. People need a history lesson. When will they wake up?

40 posted on 01/10/2013 12:44:27 AM PST by thecodont
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