Posted on 08/15/2019 3:10:57 PM PDT by conservative98
Then later that morning, 22 people died and 24 more were injured in the El Paso, Texas mass shooting. About 12 hours later, 10 died and 27 were injured in the Dayton,Ohio mass shooting.
That’s when Drudge’s tone toward the president shifted. Among the upper-left headlines on August 5 was this one: “After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight . . .” August 6 featured a “Bubble Popping?”warning regarding the stock market and the U.S. economy in general—a key indicator of Trump’s re-election chances. August 8 included an upper-left Rasmussen poll showing only 47 percent approval for Trump—a relatively low number compared to Rasmussen’s customary daily figures.
Then on August 9, the Drudge Report declared in its main headline “Red Flag: NRA Warns Trump,” and the following day Drudge posted three morestinging headlines right next to a smiling Barack and Michelle Obama:
· “Trump sides with Kim criticism of US-SKorea war games . . .”
· “Trump boasted of rally crowd size during El Paso hospital visit . . .”
· “Gallup: Approval 42% . . .”
Drudge’s August11 edition included a “Senior Voters Wavering on Trump?”headline and the same 42 percent Gallup poll, while August 12 promoted former White House Press Secretary Anthony Scaramucci’s warning that Trump will “turn ‘on everyone’ and then‘entire country’ . . .” And today’s edition includes a lukewarm “TRUMP NEUTRAL” pronouncement preceding a headline highlighting Chinese protesters’“BATTLE FOR FREEDOM.”
That’s not to say one Republican’s loss is a Democrat’s gain. Throughout his journalistic reign, Drudge has rarely let up on the left.
Yet this past week’s coverage of the president has been unusually tough.Yes, it could revert to “normal” tomorrow with a glowing headline about Trump’s leadership, or a red-meat quote of Trump trashing a notable Democrat. But since the mass shootings, conservatives’ favorite online resource has attacked Trump in ways normally reserved for Democrats.
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Just another stooge in the democrat’s pocket.
It has been like that way before the Dayton and El Paso bastard killers. I have not been able to visit the site at all it is just like Cnn or any of the other liberal sites IMO.
I visited Drudge several times a day for many years.
None of those visits have occurred this side of 2012.
That was not even remotely when Trump lost Drudge. It’s been so long I seldom mention it anymore, because everyone here says they gave up on him long ago.
We lost Matt Drudge when Trump decided not to pay for transgender treatments in the military.
The Drudge headline of Elizabeth Warren’s “big” crowd in New Hampshire is laughable.
I’ve been telling people here you’re going to lose some of our media people. Tucker praises Warren, Ingraham has a crush on Biden.
And Drudge is way off the reservation.
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Left him after visiting 4 or 5 times a day, and NEVER LOOKED BACK during the last Presidential Election. He is as left as CNN... I wish that his link wasn't allowed here on FR...
FR trumps Sludge any day as a news aggregator... with the additional bonus of great commentators.
5 years gone for me.....he used to post awesome numbers for number of visits. Does he still ? I doubt so....numbers are likely way off.
Who listens to mentally ill hom-sexuals? Not me.
Drudge is not owned or run by Matt any longer.
He’s sold out.
Losing Drudge is like going deer hunting without an accordion.
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FWIW Drudge’s deletion of FR hotlink didn’t last long. He brought it back and it is still there.
Drudge who?
I will admit I found FreeRepublic by following a search on WHITEWATER to Drudge. Once I found FreeRepublic all those years ago I never went back.
His site is like a 1970s television show you once loved, but if you were to revisit it today you wonder what it was you liked about it.
The Creators design.
U R very generous there....
So apparently the only thing drudge has that FreeRepublic doesn’t is a bad attitude ;’}
Not on my computers (shortcuts) any more. I use FR, Liberty Daily, and OAN ... all the news I need.
Never saw him as a conservative. He has always been about getting attention for his report. Once and a while just to see what he is up to I will drop in.
I gave up on Drudge several years ago!
The Liberty Daily is far better: https://thelibertydaily.com/
Really?
link?
just curious
Drudge has become as bad as Yahoo News. I click on Drudge a couple of times a day. I’m getting really close to deleting the bookmark.
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