My Own Activism: Drudge Ignoring Fast & Furious

9/26/11 | dagogoredux

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I thought I'd start a running thread, updated daily or whenever I get around to it, highlighting the almost total blackout of news about Fast & Furious by what I always figured was one of the central conservative news clearinghouses: The Drudge Site.

While we can read endlessly there about all manner of tabloid goings on concerning the media and political elite, I have noted only three articles about Fast & Furious since the news began to break many months ago, and all three of those articles were quickly pulled.

When I mentioned on another thread this morning my intention to start a thread such as this, a fellow FReeper posted shortly thereafter that Drudge had posted a link to the latest F&F news. The link presented evidence that ATF agents HAD been buying guns with taxpayer money for distribution directly to cartel members. When I got home this evening and went to look for this posting, it is no longer on Drudge. Other frivolous inanities from several days ago remain on Drudge, but not the more recent blockbuster F&F news. This is the way it also was with the other ephemeral links he's posted before.

I expect the Administration, and the 3-to-5 letter Federal Agencies involved, and the Congress critters on both sides of the aisle, and the MSM, to all participate in the blackout of this horrendous, treasonous act. However, I do not expect it of Drudge.

Messages and suggested links I have sent to his site have been ignored. Perhaps an ongoing tally on FR will spur him to report on something more meaningful than Simon Cowell and Chaz Bono.

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It was meant as a compliment. :)

I agree it could be fear, but Clinton’s death list was pretty long, and actively growing, when Drudge first broke through. All that’s changed now is that he’s successful and famous.

Drudge has been my go-to source for a conservative news summary for quite a while now. I’m just saddened and frustrated to see us in the middle of what amounts to a war for the survival of our republic, and yet someone of great influence who seemed to be on our side is now unwilling to endure any risk for the sake of that republic.

Thanks again for picking up the slack last night.

[Texas Fossil]

unwilling to endure any risk for the sake of that republic

Hmmm, I have thought about that for some time. Couple of months ago a FRiend suggested he would work for me if I chose to run for public office and I replied I was too old. But I also told him that I would love a gig going after those who seek to destroy the nation. (Republic) Someone with subpoena power and the resources to investigate them. I said then that I would even take some risks to do just that.

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Drudge update: 10/6/11, 7 AM PST

Five F&F posts are still extant from yesterday, one now having been culled from the herd.

But it’s hard to believe any are still left at all when matched against the more vital news below, competing for the attention of Drudge and the conservative world:

1. Michele O spotted in America.
2. Michael Jackson update: still dead (I admit, the reassurance IS comforting).
3. 1-ton pumpkin goal.
4. Anti-dwarf-tossing law repeal efforts.
5. 71 yo naked (nude?) woman car sex.

Meanwhile on FR, five NEW F&F threads this AM.

[Texas Fossil]

My mother is Swedish. Some of them claim Viking roots. (My father's ancestors said they were Scotch/Irish)

You might find this interesting. From:

http://ogblog.net/index.php/weblog/comments/holger_danske_is_stirring/

Holger Danske is stirring......

One of Charles Martel’s comrades-in-arms at Poitiers was a warrior of the North known Ogier le Danois, later Holger Danske, or Holger the Dane. Although Holger was a historical figure, little is known of him, and most of the written material about him is drawn from legend.

Holger DanskeAccording to the chroniclers, Holger had previously done battle with the Franks over their incursions into Danish territory. But in 732 the menace of the Saracens forced him to set aside his differences with Charles Martel and journey southwards to fight side-by-side with the Frankish forces against the common enemy.

The battle of Poitiers was fought to prevent the “common enemy”, who had occupied Spain and Portugal, from moving north into the heart of Europe. Of course, the “common enemy” were the Saracens….that is to say, the Moors…..or in modern terms, the Muslims. Which makes the legend of Holger Danske just a little more up-to-date, it seems to me.

At the end of his days, Holger, like King Arthur, retired to a secluded keep to enter a twilight sleep from which he will awake in the hour of his country’s need. The location most frequently cited for Holger’s rest is Kronborg castle at Helsingør (or “Elsinore”, per Shakespeare).

Here is Holger in the poetry of Ted Hughes, emerging when the time comes that Denmark is undergoing existential threat:

      Out through the dark archway of earth, under the ancient lintel
                overwritten with roots,
      Out between the granite jambs, gallops the hooded
                horseman of iron.
      Out of the wound-gash in the earth, the horseman mounts,
                shaking his plumes clear of dark soil.
      Out of the blood-dark womb, gallops bowed
                the horseman of iron,
      The blood-crossed Knight, the Holy Warrior, hooded with iron,
                the seraph of the bleak edge,
      Gallops along the world’s ridge in moonlight.

And finally, here is Baron Bodissey, writing at Gates of Vienna, evoking Holger Danske in the present emergency:

We all know about the Twelfth Imam, the super-bad Muslim guy at the bottom of the well in Persia. When Armageddon arrives, when Gog grapples with Magog and battle rages across the plain at Megiddo, the Twelfth Imam will awaken and lead the armies of Islam to their final victory, establishing the kingdom of Allah here on Earth.

Forget the Twelfth Imam.

We’ve got our own dude sitting on the bench. Call him the Twelfth Viking. He’s suited up, ready to join the contest as soon as he’s required.

The Men of the North form the core of the Counterjihad. They are already in action, clearing the back alleys of Anbar Province, riding point in Kabul, and forming up in self-organized groups to defend our borders with Mexico.

As I’ve said before, it’s not race that’s the issue here, it’s culture. The culture of the Danes, the Norsemen, the English, and the Celts. The culture of the hardy and self-reliant Men of the North, always ready to defend their ancient liberties with a ferocity that their enemies can scarcely imagine. The culture of productive enterprise and armed self-determination that has spread to all corners of the globe.

Holger Danske is the man who best represents us. He’ll be there in the hour of our greatest need.

The Twelfth Viking — I can see his eyelids fluttering even now…

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Thanks - very interesting. My last name is Austrian, but the other 7/8ths of me is a hopelessly tangled Welsh/Irish/Scotch/English mix - who knows what all Norse blood is intermixed in all that!

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Drudge Watch Friday, 10/7/11, 7:20 AM PST:

Well, well, well . . . . NO F&F news. But then, except for a snippet featuring celebrities Woody allen and Michelle O (Oh, the humanity!), no tabloid news either.

Drudge getting serious? Get serious!

OTOH, Only one F&F link on the ping list today. Slow news Friday.

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Drudge Watch Friday, 10/7/11, 9 PM PST:

Quick update on today’s F&F News score:

Drudge = 0

MestaMachine Ping List = 7

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Late 10/8/11, early 10/9/11.

This is getting almost too boring to continue on. As if to thwart me, Drudge has posted NADA on either F&F OR the inane celebrity stuff - all frickin’ day!

Meanwhile, back at the FR ranch: 12 F&F Pings from MestaMachine!

Hard to report on this match if Drudge won’t throw a punch, or won’t even leave his corner after the bell each round. Pathetic.

[Fresh Wind]

Compare and contrast-Fast and Furious vs. a recent “important” story:

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/search.htm?searchFor=Knox

And note that of the 10 “Fast and Furious” search results, only 6 actually apply to the Holder scandal.

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Sunday, 10/110/11, 9 AM PST.

A apparently a “Day of Rest” for Drudge:

Drudge: 0 (But Oprah gets a link, and three links announce that Steve Jobs is still dead)

FR MetaMachine Ping List: 3

Another round goes to FR.

I notice that the out-&-out paparazzi news is less prevalent these days, but the quasi-titillating semi-news seems to have taken its place: “One-testicled Burglar Losses Remaining Testicle to Nude But Dentured Grannie” sort of stuff. Hardly essential stuff to know as the world falls apart and tyrants attempt a treasonous coup in the US.

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Dudge Watch:
10/10/11 7:30AM PST

Well, Anonymous has not get crashed the NYSE as promised, but Drudge does report that, in a horribly racist act, a fan did throw a hot dog at Tiger Woods.

But, three F&F posts have lingered since last night, all covered by MestaMachine’s Ping List, in addition to three other new ones on FR this AM.

And so, I believe I have both made my point here, and perhaps spurred Drudge to do a wee bit better in reporting F&F.

Because of this, and because the MSM is now truly picking up F&F reporting, and because going to Drudge every day simply bores the heck out of me, I will bow out at this point and close down the DRUDGE WATCH.

A Dios, and thanks.

[MestaMachine]

Thank you. It is moving much faster now.