There's a lot of truth to that statement, but it's also obvious if you've been paying any attention to the Drudge Report that Matt Drudge is intensely anti-Newt. He has been flooding his page with anti-Newt stories non-stop. There have been several other candidates who been out in the front at various times and none of them have received this kind of over-the-top hostile propagandizing from Drudge.
None of the other candidates even come close to having this amount of political dirt to dish!
Drudge didn’t write the stories. He didn’t ferret them out from obscurity or research them in the archives of history.
These are stories that are already out there, to which Drudge simply links.
If there are a thousand stories out there about Newt Gingrich, there will be many links to those stories on Drudge.
I lived through Gingrich’s Speakership as a politically aware human being and it was clear to me from the get-go that, should Gingrich become our nominee, this is EXACTLY what would happen.
Again, doesn’t mean we have an alternative. But it’s just not factually founded to see this as mere “bias” or “propaganda.” The stories exist, the stories are based on facts (though one may interpret those facts variously), and those stories WILL be thrown at Newt **regardless** of whether Drudge links to them or not.
Ann Coulter was on O’Reilly Tuesday night and she was desperately angry about Newt beating Romney in SC. As distraught as I’ve seen her. Her vision is that Romney is a cool, competent business titan who will beat Obama handily, while Newt will lose in a landslide. I think she’s been around DC too long and lacks the intuition to see what Romney is - and is not. To my mind, it is so obvious that Romney is immature because he’s rarely been challenged and has had almost everything go his way in life. He nervous giggles like a teenage girl. Obama is a cold fish with a personality disorder who will take down anyone in his way, aided at every turn by the media. Thus, Romney is not up to the task of defeating him. Yet she can’t see it. Her pal Drudge is continuing her Tuesday rant via his site.