Posted on 12/09/2019 6:23:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
"What happened to Drudge?"A lot of people have been asking that question lately. If you talk to conservatives these days, you'll hear that Matt Drudge's eponymous news aggregation site has gone over to the dark sidethat Matt's joined the anti-Trump resistance. And now, Rasmussen Reports, an arguably reputable polling operation, is calling Drudge out on Twitter, even suggesting that the site has been sold.
The whole kerfuffle appears to have begun at the end of November, when the Bongino Report, touted as a Trump-friendly alternative to Drudge, launched. Bongino taunted Drudge with a pair of tweets:
Rasmussen heralded Bongino's announcement, retweeting a now-deleted post from the Drudge Report account blasting the new site.
Then on Saturday, Citizen Free Press, another conservative news aggregator, announced on Twitter that they're the "new Drudge Report." Rasmussen responded with a bombshell worthy of a great big Drudge siren: "We don't think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Word is he sold, just waiting for confirmation. Now that will be a story."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
When Matt was in his prime there was hardly an article linked that wasn't some combination of important, informative, interesting, educational, amusing, or perhaps outright horrifying. There was a political rudder trim on the articles selected, but it wasn't heavy handed and wasn't in you face.
Rarely did I click on a link and say to myself - well that was a waste of time.
And his stripped down format had the look of a 3 column newspaper front page - deceptively simple and well organized. Like things went in like places.
These new sights miss all of that. They are messy, and their political bias hits you in the face.
I like rantingly https://rantingly.com/
Try rantingly.com
Lets add the Bongino Report to that list:
https://bonginoreport.com
Don’t care, I stopped going there years ago.
He might be finally gone altogether. There’s not a single article about robot sex.
My Guess is that part of the deal when Drudge sold out was that he could not expose the sale. The ideal was to put one over on conservatives and slowly bring them into the leftist fold. They hoped that no one would notice the change.
C'mon man. It's not rocket science.
Drudge was a news syndicator with a conservative leaning, back during the beginning of the Internet and then had the balls to post the washington dc open scoop about the lewinsky/slick willy blowjob.
News people all over DC knew about bill and his young sperm receiver, but the conservatives didn't have the balls and the liberals were more than willing to run cover for the little bent one.
Drudge put it out into the sunlight and his traffic went ballistic.
It would not work today because there is too much competition and too many platforms.
This is very very old news
wake up people
For many years now, I have reminded myself that many 180 degree reversals from good to bad MAY be explained by two phrases:
1. Hillary Clinton
2. Missing FBI files
I credit Roberts’ betrayal on ObamaCare to them, among other un-explainable craziness.
About a week ago I heard it was likely Google.
Chris Salsedo on KSEV in Houston relayed that is the info that he heard through the media grapevine.
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