Posted on 02/16/2020 8:20:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
All day, I’ve been waiting for someone to debunk the claim on Drudge Report that Mike Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as his running mate. All day, I’ve been disappointed. I’ve watched my favorite conspiracy theory sites. I’ve watched the usual suspects among Bernie Bro journalists, MAGA-hat-wearing bloggers, and DNC shills on Twitter. Nothing. Nobody’s talking about the sham of this news report.
It seems that everyone took the bait for one reason and one reason only: It was broken by Matt Drudge. For over two decades, he’s dropped several scoops on his homepage regarding scandals that usually turned out to be true. The faux-conservative broke the news just as Bloomberg was about to get blasted across the board following the release of his infamous booklet, The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit & Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg, by the Washington Post. It was the first time the booklet, published in 1990 as a birthday gift to the financial and media mogul with very limited circulation, was released in its entirety. A handful of news outlets have copies and have posted snippets, but WaPo was the first to publish all of it.
By releasing the fake “blockbuster” report on Drudge, the Bloomberg campaign was able to dodge a bullet that could have carried over into the week. Now, it’s gone. All media talk about Bloomberg is associated with Clinton. It’s the perfect con to get moderate Democrats excited, progressive Democrats outraged, and Trump supporters licking their lips at the prospect of chanting “lock her up” once again.
Was Drudge used or is he in on the con? It’s possible he knew, but unlikely. He’s probably just a useful idiot handpicked because of his reputation and his site’s heavy traffic. If Drudge reports it, people listen even if...
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He sold it over a year ago.
I suspect that he lost interest and decided to go have a life.
Bloomberg’s life expectancy would be about ten minutes after the election.
Bloomberg may be crazy but is he Arkancidal?
Maybe Bloomberg is the new owner of Drudge (secretly).
My Democrat sister in law, who is very nice person and you can have a conversation with about politics, told me about this booklet this morning. She saw it on WP. However she said she hadn’t heard about Bloomers and Hillary.
My first thought as well
List of Bloomberg first’s if elected.
#1 First President to have female vice president sworn in.
#2 First president to commit unsolved suicide on inauguration day.
Note that step one precedes step two.
Now sure if anyone else remembers (or has access to Lexis Nexus) but I remember when Bloomberg was first running for mayor, either Jewish Squeak (sic), JTA or something similar had two other, older anti-Jewish quotes from Bloomberg.
a/ something to the effect that Israel is useless to Mike b/c they have no / or only crappy skiing.
b/ the way to solve all of Israel’s problems is to kill all the Rabbis...
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