Posted on 11/03/2019 8:57:19 PM PST by cba123
What happened to Matt Drudge? Top Conservative Publisher turns on Trump!
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For the past week The Drudge Report has posted screaming headlines pushing President Trump’s impeachment! At the same time Drudge has ignored President Trump’s 50% Rasmussen approval rating — 5 points higher than Barack Obama at the same time in his presidency.
Liberty Daily........Citizen Free Press......DON’T even click on Drudge one click is to many!!!!
That is what I just heard.
Is that true?
Sorry I am not doubting you, or questioning you about this information, but I have been loyally hitting the Drudgereport for many, many years.
Does anyone have some confirmation of this please?
Did Google just buy that website?
OH I understand phones and tablets!
Glad to have link.
Sad about Drudge...
A poofter run website given to hysteria.
Been ignoring it for quite a while now.
Drudge is a fairy and fairy’s hate judges that support the constitution as written.
Trump’s Judges don’t support perverted lifestyles.
He’s setting the table for the Democrat full on fail and generating hits...
I’m kewel with the direction he’s taking...
With all due respect, do you really need a source?
If you have been “loyally hitting the Drudge report for many, many years,” have you not seen the change in his content, tilt, etc?!?
I too went there for years; however, from what I have seen, now it more resembles a DU or Daily KOS website...with more and more articles that are anti trump and pro LGTB2QI+++
Who was/were Trump's top Facebook supporter?
I have known of Drudge’s lifestyle choices for a long time.
But if Google owns the site now, I’m history.
Or, at least the rumors.
:)
I am not talking about his lifestyle choices...
Whether or not someone else owns the site, sadly clearely now it is pro-Global, pro-Swamp, Anti-Trump...
Do an archive from 2016~and tell me if there is not a difference...
And since Trump is not anti-LGBT, Drudge’s lifestyle really should not be a factor IMHO.
I never understood why anyone ever went to Drudge’s site. I gues it’s some sort of cult following.
I never understood why anyone ever went to Drudge’s site. I gues it’s some sort of cult following.
Garbage at the top of the internet’s David Brock’s website...
FOX NEWS POLL 49% WANT TRUMP REMOVED...NBCNEWS PO: 49% WANT TRUMP REMOVED...MSN POLL: 52% WANT TRUMP REMOVED...
In a surprising turn, Drudge Report removed ads between the end of May and mid-July, according to Danny Rogers, a cofounder of the Global Disinformation Index, a project that’s analyzing domains to generate “risk ratings of the world’s media sites.” After noticing an absence of ads on Drudge around May 31, “we didn’t see any ads on Drudge until about July 12,” Rogers told BuzzFeed News.
During that period, Drudge cast off his advertising representative of close to 20 years, Intermarkets, in favor of a new and unknown company, Granite Cubed. It has no record in the digital ad industry, was only registered as a company in March of this year, and lists no staff or owners on its websites. Yet it just landed one of the biggest websites in the US.
“Any time a 20-year relationship comes to an end is certainly a surprising turn of events,” said Jay Friedman, president of Goodway Group, a digital agency that specializes in programmatic media buying.
Corporate records show that Granite Cubed is owned by Margaret Otto. She and her husband, Adrian, have a business association with the Drudge family that goes back years. The couple acquired Refdesk, a reference website founded by Bob Drudge, Matt’s father, in 2017. They also operated a company that began hosting the Drudge Report in 1999 and later added Breitbart as a customer. (The couple did not answer questions about whether they still own that hosting company or if it’s still hosting Drudge or Breitbart.)
Adrian Otto is the technical director of Google Cloud. He told BuzzFeed News he is not involved with Granite Cubed. Upon joining Google in 2017 from Rackspace, he said, he “stopped operating [his] other business interests” and is no longer involved with “hosting duties” for other websites. Otto was previously listed as the technical contact in the domain registration of breitbart.com, and was thanked by name in the foreword to Andrew Breitbart’s book about Hollywood.
“I knew Andrew Breitbart when he was alive, and helped him with some technical work,” Otto said.
Margaret Otto declined to discuss her company’s plans for Drudge Report or Refdesk, which she said is also represented by Granite. She wouldn’t say if she represents other websites or answer other questions, such as whether Matt or Bob Drudge were shareholders in Granite.
I went cold turkey on his site — I haven’t even looked at it for a while now. I deleted the bookmark from my browsers too.
I remember when he broke the Monica story — I was a big fan of his site even before then, visiting several times a day.
Now, he may as well not even exist. He’s in the never-Trump media graveyard with Bill Kristol.
And he's been packing it...
I don’t think he owns it or controls the content any more.
Thanks.
Bookmarked...
He got ahold of a bad weenie and it made him sick.
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