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This must get out - before Drudge can do any more damage.
1 posted on 03/09/2012 9:31:00 AM PST by jmstein7
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Most people on the street don’t even know who Matt Drudge is, I bet.


2 posted on 03/09/2012 9:33:36 AM PST by GSWarrior
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I don’t know if they had a riff or not, but I noticed in 2008 that Drudge didn’t report on Obama like he reported on John Kerry.


3 posted on 03/09/2012 9:36:07 AM PST by Politics4US
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I've been a subscriber to PatriotPost.us for the last 6 years and I've never been disappointed or felt betrayed by them. They have a news aggregator similar to Drudge:

Patriot Headline Report

I've been using this for news and haven't been pelted with random garbage. Drudge can go pound sand.

4 posted on 03/09/2012 9:36:07 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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I would not know about Drudge as I have not visited his site in a couple of months now. He has jumped the shark IMHO.


5 posted on 03/09/2012 9:40:20 AM PST by Parley Baer
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Drudge can do with his site whatever he wants.

And you can follow it or not, as you like.

That’s freedom. Choice. What we defend and fight for in this country.

Same is true for Jim Robinson, TV networks, cable TV, Google, etc. etc.

If you don’t like another man’s viewpoint, express your own. Louder, if that’s what it takes.

Live with it and be thankful for our freedoms.


6 posted on 03/09/2012 9:43:35 AM PST by Jedidah
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DRUDGE, I WUV MITTENS
8 posted on 03/09/2012 9:44:43 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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During the Clinton days, Drudge was a 'must see' website, very relevant and cutting edge.

Since then, his website is good for headlines and malware and not all that good for headlines.

I was hoping he might be a player once again this election, but apparently he's just a tool. His time in the sun has passed.

9 posted on 03/09/2012 9:45:16 AM PST by GBA (Natural Born American)
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Interesting.


10 posted on 03/09/2012 9:46:05 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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I dumped drudge with that massing number of negative articles about Newt thing.

I’ll not be back. I have a long memory.


11 posted on 03/09/2012 9:47:18 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Well, this may deserve further research.

But I was watching the Drudge website closely throughout the campaign.

I think that the critical thing was that Drudge was strongly opposed to Hillary. You can’t blame him, I suppose, since she probably threatened to get him after Monicagate. Hillary keeps her grudges forever.

What I noticed is that Drudge favored Obama over Hillary, until Hillary lost. Then he started attacking Obama, and he has done so ever since. If Obama won, it was because McCain handed it to him. As for Hillary, I strongly suspect that she would have been just as bad as Obama, if not worse. Pro-Muslim, pro-Communist, an Alinskiite from her college days. Much worse than Bill Clinton.

Drudge has been in the tank for Mitt Romney for the past month, and has helped slime the other GOP candidates. But that’s another matter. He certainly hasn’t favored Obama, as you can see just about every day on his website. He only sticks at the Birther issue, and so does everyone else.


12 posted on 03/09/2012 9:47:53 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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A month or so ago, something was going on here regarding Drudge. Whoever runs or works on this site was concerned that drudge would pull his Free Republic link because of negative things being said about Drudge here, by us. I could be wrong, but I think drudge might have pulled his FR link (like a threat) and then put it back on. I think that links to popular sites brings in money??? Anyway, I think its time for me to put up or shut up too. I have been avoiding drudge since that happened. I will not go there again.


13 posted on 03/09/2012 9:50:16 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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I do remember when Drudge had Freerepublic linked on his website then removed it. I haven’t been to his site in years so I don’t know if he ever linked it up again. I feel Drudge lost his credibility when he did that.


14 posted on 03/09/2012 9:51:05 AM PST by Datom
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I dunno. I haven’t seen anything on Drudge that would cause me to not go there. But, then, I don’t expect anything but links, and go to a number of other places too, so I don’t think I’ve been exposed to any bias on Drudge’s part.

We need to be very careful, and not dump those who might be friends or neutral in a fit of pique because they don’t openly support our candidate.


16 posted on 03/09/2012 9:53:58 AM PST by SuzyQue
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Drudge caused the “Swiftees” to be marginalized and ridiculed

Bill O'Reilly also mocked and dismissed them, which is yet another reason I stopped watching him years ago. I don't think I tuned him in even once since then.

20 posted on 03/09/2012 9:57:51 AM PST by marron
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I’ve stopped going to Drudge’s site for some time now. Others just need to do the same.


24 posted on 03/09/2012 10:02:35 AM PST by Thorliveshere
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Drudge is an A-Hoe , I merely tolerate his blog to catch obscure news


25 posted on 03/09/2012 10:05:54 AM PST by KTM rider
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Drudge is a news aggregator, and anyone who "trusts" any news source, even a second hand link list make like Matt Drudge, is behaving foolishly.

In the days before telegraphy, and for years afterward, when every town of 5000 had two or three newspapers, people knew this. The automatic caution shown people like H.V. Kaltenborn and other radio news readers and presenters shows the healthy cynicism lasted through the beginnings of the Television age, at least through the rapid decline in literacy on the domestic front between World War II and the Korean War years.

Anyone who utilized Drudge beginning in 1996 has to know Matt's never been a Conservative.

26 posted on 03/09/2012 10:15:35 AM PST by Prospero
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Obama was elected to loot the US Treasury...and the loot was spread far, wide and deep into every nook and cranny of the country, up and down both sides of the aisle, throughout the legislative and judicial branches in the Federal,and many states.


32 posted on 03/09/2012 10:37:35 AM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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Obama was elected to loot the US Treasury...and the loot was spread far, wide and deep into every nook and cranny of the country, up and down both sides of the aisle, throughout the legislative and judicial branches in the Federal,and many states’ governments.


33 posted on 03/09/2012 10:37:56 AM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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We’ve never been a Drudge Report attendee. Other than a handful of occasions following a story that was linked to Drudge’s site, we’ve never desired to go there. Everything we need is right here at FR. Even before FR when we were L-dotters we were’nt into the Drudge Report.


37 posted on 03/09/2012 10:57:47 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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