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Obama Senior Adviser Complains That The Drudge Report 'Hurts What We're Trying To Do'
Business Insider ^ | 4/3/2013 | Brett LoGiurato

Posted on 04/04/2013 8:23:36 AM PDT by Beave Meister

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Wednesday that the prominent Drudge Report website "hurts" the White House's message because of its dominating effect on the news cycle.

Pfeiffer said that he was "ambivalent" to what Matt Drudge links to on his website, but he lamented that the site led to a "Pavlovian response" from reporters.

"Anyone saying anything can get caught up in the spin cycle in a way that is very damaging," Pfeiffer said at a Politico Playbook breakfast with Mike Allen. "It hurts what we’re trying to do, but then it is very damaging to that individual person."

Pfeiffer said that he'll often be approached by reporters who say they have a question strictly because "it's on Drudge."

"What do you say to that?" Allen asked him.

"I sort of ask them to repeat themselves — say that to themselves out loud again and think about it," Pfeiffer said. "And everyone's always a little embarrassed about it and says, 'My boss — my assignment editor's on me about this.'"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhopress; corruption; democrats; drudgereport; fraud; liberals; liers; mattdrudge; newmedia; obama; pfeiffer; playbook; politico; whitehouse
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All The Drudge Report consists of is a page with links to news stories that Drudge finds relevant. So what could a chimp like Pfeiffer object to in this?
1 posted on 04/04/2013 8:23:36 AM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Drudge since its inception has been pulling stuff directly from the wire feeds - just as the ordinary media does. The stuff on Drudge is the other stuff that the ordinary media either don’t care about or don’t want us to know about.

And since the media and the democrats are one and the same, of course they don’t like that Drudge upsets the apple cart.


2 posted on 04/04/2013 8:26:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
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The Drudge Report 'Hurts What We're Trying To Do'

Now ain't that just too damned bad

3 posted on 04/04/2013 8:27:26 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Beave Meister

It’s like shining a light on cockroaches! They prefer to do their work in the dark so nobody can see.


4 posted on 04/04/2013 8:29:35 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: laweeks

Well, since the RINO’s won’t lift a finger to stop you, someone has to do it or we are toast.


5 posted on 04/04/2013 8:29:52 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Beave Meister

Yes, exposing you to the light is bad...

Informing people of what you are up to is bad...

We get it.


6 posted on 04/04/2013 8:31:06 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Beave Meister

“The Drudge Report ‘Hurts What We’re Trying To Do’”

Exactly. That’s the entire point!


7 posted on 04/04/2013 8:33:23 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Beave Meister
The Drudge Report 'Hurts What We're Trying To Do'

Translation:

It is tough to keep misleading the people when other keep pointing out our lies.

8 posted on 04/04/2013 8:35:41 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: laweeks

More like Drudge is Exposing what we are trying to do.


9 posted on 04/04/2013 8:37:09 AM PDT by ballplayer
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10 posted on 04/04/2013 8:38:00 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (The Old White Flag Republicans can go straight to He// and take their pal Obama with them!)
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To: Beave Meister
They hate that it's still a little complicated to just put a bullet in somebody like Matt Drudge's head.

They working on simplifying such encumbrances though.

11 posted on 04/04/2013 8:38:42 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Beave Meister
Well, the Obama administration, and democrats in general, hurt what I'm trying to do.
12 posted on 04/04/2013 8:39:58 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Beave Meister

Any government that can’t stand up to criticism is not a government. It’s a scheme.


13 posted on 04/04/2013 8:42:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: Beave Meister

“Hurting what they’re trying to do” is music to the ears!

Now if Drudge could hire some genuine, old-fashioned investigative journalists to expand his coverage


14 posted on 04/04/2013 8:42:10 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: Beave Meister

Imagine, a news organization that is not an arm of the administration?

Then imagine same organization, seen by millions.

Oh the Huge Manatee.

I think I’ll sign up for Drudge’s pay site.


15 posted on 04/04/2013 8:45:19 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: cotton1706
Drudge since its inception has been pulling stuff directly from the wire feeds - just as the ordinary media does. The stuff on Drudge is the other stuff that the ordinary media either don’t care about or don’t want us to know about.

The media has long had the practice of taking stories that don't fit their narrative and burying them on page B-18. Or events (like black-on-white crime) only get mention in a small local paper and given no national attention.

Matt notices those buried stories and gives them a screaming red headline.

16 posted on 04/04/2013 8:45:25 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Beave Meister

I wonder what Obama thinks about FR?


17 posted on 04/04/2013 8:48:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Beave Meister

“All The Drudge Report consists of is a page with links to news stories that Drudge finds relevant. So what could a chimp like Pfeiffer object to in this?”

Sounds like he’s realized or been given the memo that FauxNews is on Hussein’s side, and now they’re going after the next place that won’t exactly regurgitate the news they’ve been told to by his god Hussein.


18 posted on 04/04/2013 8:54:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Beave Meister; John Semmens

Dang John, I thought I missed a ping from you. You can’t make this stuff up.


19 posted on 04/04/2013 9:12:14 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: Beave Meister

That’s the point of the 1st ammendment. Clearly, the administration is for placing limits on the 1st ammendment, but they need to limit the 2nd first.


20 posted on 04/04/2013 9:21:13 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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