Posted on 10/29/2008 5:57:41 AM PDT by IrishMike
In 2006, Mark Halperin, then with ABC News, and John Harris, then with the Washington Post, wrote an astute book on U.S. politics titled "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008."
In one of their more provocative -- and widely noted -- assertions, they wrote, "Matt Drudge rules our world."
They elaborated over many pages, but their point came down to this: "With the exception of the Associated Press, there is no outlet other than the Drudge Report whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts."
In the two years since the book appeared, much has changed. Halperin works for Time magazine. Harris helped conceive Politico.com, and serves as editor in chief. And with the rise of other leading websites, most obviously Huffington Post, their analysis of the clout of Drudge is much more arguable.
Still, as any blog poster who gets a link on the Drudge page can testify, its influence remains something to behold. So it was with interest that we noted a tidbit today on the website Halperin oversees, The Page.
The item was headlined "Oh, Matt!!!" The tease: "For the second straight day, powerful Internetist tries to tip the flow against (Barack) Obama."
The case is made here. And we're sure we'll be among the many watching to see if Drudge continues the pattern Halperin detected.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Here’s Matt’s “fun” with a headline on his page this morning:
“TRICK OR TREAT: GALLUP SAYS OBAMA +2”
You gotta love it. :-)
Nonsense, we have let the concern/dissent/”pure conservative”/Illuminutty posters post at will all election season.
I don't understand why some people don't want a little different opinion/view here. We still have an awful lot in common.
You’ve been around for a whole 13 days and your already pissed at FR? You might want to try getting a thicker skin.
Or perhaps you’re just here to stir the pot a little.
“Without Matt Drudge, Fox, and Free Republic news does not exist.”
If Obama wins, forget the scrutiny that Joe the Plumber got. Every poster on Fr and other blogs will get the fine tooth comb. They will have years of posts to mine, and they will. They will find out who we are, and they will publicly attack us with the full force of the United States Government. We saw some of that during the Clinton years, but that will seem like child’s play compared to what we face.
The frickin LEAVE!
Why would you keep coming back to something that pisses you off? This behavior sure makes your screen name look like a flat out lie.
Now that Drudge isn’t in the tank for Hitlery, he’s been a bit more even handed in his articles posted.
something awfully suspicious about a noob, here less than 2 weeks, mouthing off about being dissatistfied with FR. in an election season when the trolls come out in force. just sayin’.
Poor babies. They can dish it out but they sure can’t take it when it comes their way can they. Sensitive wittle liburls.
“With a little help from the Internet, 24-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayab is cold calling random American families from his parent’s home imploring them to vote Obama.”
This is great campaign work - for McCain! =:-D
I can imagine the reaction of the average American on getting a call from Palestine pushing NObama! lol!
The Los Angeles Times is angry today because they were deluged with phone calls regarding the Rashid Khalidi-Obama video. Drudge had put the Los Angeles Times contact person on the spot by printing her name in the linked article.
They actually got several hundred phone calls yesterday as a result.
I think you need to go back home to dummyland before the kitties come for you.
Take the “Obama tax cut test” ad was showing on top of Drudge page just now.
I noticed earlier in the week that his daily viewings have gone from 19 milltion to 29 million. Way to go to get the needed info out that the lamestream news fails to deliver —
I doubt it takes into account he expiring Bush tax cuts, the increased capital gains, increased payroll taxes, the increased corporate taxes, and the increase in the death penalty tax. Just sayin. :)
Thank God for Drudge. He is the perpetual fly in the Dems ointment. I love it!
“Matt Drudge could really care less what anyone things about him, Republican or Democrat. He is certainly not going away soon”
If what you say about him really is true, then he might very well end up “going away soon” during an Obama administration.
Having no loyalty to them, it would become too dangerous for them to permit him to continue....
Ask the Clintons about that.
- John
Yes you are new to FR, yes yes.
Go look at the sidebar. The guy who owns this site says that it is making the case for McCain-Palin.
I don’t see anyone here saying that we are “winning”, we do point out that the media has been running biased polls that significantly oversample Democrats and have no basis in the percentages of voters that go to the polls.
Their so called “Bradley” effect also ended up in Zogby showing ON ELECTION DAY EXIT POLLS that John Kerry had at least 315 electoral votes. He didn’t even get 250. But it was an attempt to supress GOP voter turnout “this thing is already lost”.
Read below to see Mark Halperin’s internal memo from the 2004 campaign. He was political director at ABC and is acknowledging that he was biasing news coverage.
I’ve said the same thing.
The point was that Obama is buying ads on Drudge. Saying he is in the tank for either candidate is silly.
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