Posted on 12/11/2007 5:27:41 PM PST by MrArbitrage123
This is quite interesting. I have been suspicious of Drudg lately. Sorry if anyone has already posted this.
http://www.prezcast.com/2007/12/matt-drudge-romney-insider.html
Better post if it wasn’t from a huckster website.
Drudge is biased like everyone else. What makes him better than average is that he at least leans to the conservative side. But his biases are clear. He’s no different than anyone else. He is clearly anti-Huckabee. He might be more neutral on Thompson but he is definitely pro-Romney. So Romney gets a big fish. It happens. Won’t sway me.
Drudge has clearly been out to bring down Huckabee. So his supporters put up a defense. Who can blame them.
When Fred Thompson recieved the biggest GOP primary campaign endorsement to date, from the #1 pro-life group in the nation, the NRTL Committee, I don't remember seeing one mention of it on Drudge. If it was posted, it was pulled immediately.
True, and my guy is now Fred. So I am not biased at all, of course. LOL
This is nonsense. Romney’s campaign knows how to play the media access game, and is much more media savvy than any of the other candidates, most notably Fred Thompson. That’s all it is, nothing more. Drudge really push Fred Thompson’s early momentum, too, but as it turned out Fred just can’t - or won’t - deliver. He doesn’t know how - or refuses - to play the media access game, and that’s why he’s been sinking ever since. Drudge can’t print stories if they’re not fed to him, and he goes with what he gets. Romney understands that, the other candidates, Fred particularly, don’t.
” I don’t know if Drudge is a Romney insider, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. “
What wouldn’t surprise me at all is if Drudge is getting millions of dollars from Romney under the table.
He wouldn’t have to worry about any Drudge breaking the story.
Oh come on now. Drudge is plenty calculating about his placements and choice of headlines. That’s part of what’s so fun about him. For example global warming. Almost always when he links to a GW headline he will also link to a cold weather report. It’s great. You have to take the bad with the good, though. It’s his site and he can do with it as he pleases. The difference between Drudge and the other media is that Drudge admits what he is. The MSM tries to pass itself off as neutral.
I don’t remember seeing a major headline posted on the Drudge Report touting Fred`s NRTL endorsement.
Drudge goes where the story is. He’s posted positive and negative stories on all the candidates. Shmuckabee’s getting negative press right now because all the opposition research is being sent out from the campaigns. Romney’s gotten bad press on Drudge too. The bottom line though, is that no press on Drudge is the worst press of all, and Fred Thompson is getting plenty of it. And that is because his campaign doesn’t go out and get it. In contrast, Romney’s press office is very active.
Drudge is being rather selective in his coverage of this race. But then, it’s his website.
It's no more complicated than that.
Oh okay. You may be right then. I’ve thought Drudge favored Romney for several months now. He is definitely anti-Huckabee. I haven’t decided what he thinks of Thompson but if you are right, that’s a big clue right there.
Drudge is human. He is no more neutral than anyone else. He may even think he is neutral, but he isn’t. Clearly you wouldn’t see the unfair treatment of Huckabee when you can’t even say his name without derision (Shmuchabee?).
Wrong, Drudge is a muckracker. He loves to dish dirt, no matter who it’s about — even himself! Regardless of his own personal biases, he cannot resist the mudslinging. That’s about the beginning and end of it.
To a minor point he is a muckracker. But he is also biased and his biases are easy to spot.
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