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The Drudge Report has become an embarrassing Never-Trump cringe fest
The Post Millennial ^ | 9/1/2020 | Mia Cathell

Posted on 09/02/2020 7:30:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

In the latest slew of "mini-stroke" hit pieces against the president, the once-conservative Drudge Report titled its headlining story, "Trump Denies Mini-Stroke Sent Him To Hospital."

The news aggregation site sourced a CNN video of President Donald Trump allegedly dragging his right leg while touring a North Carolina laboratory back in July.

Trump on Tuesday denied the leftist spin that he suffered "a series of mini-strokes" prompting an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed hospital in November 2019. Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, even cleared his health record in a statement, affirming that Trump is "fit to execute the duties of the Presidency."

The president then called out Matt Drudge, who founded the self-titled Drudge Report, for not backing him during his 2016 presidential campaign and further diverging from conservative media.

"His Fake News report on Mini-Strokes is incorrect," Trump exposed the now-liberal news peddler. "Possibly thinking about himself, or the other party’s 'candidate.'"

Numerous conservative commentators have called out Drudge for promoting anti-Trump stories during the impeachment hoax. And in July, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called Drudge "firmly a man of the progressive left," comparing the Drudge Report founder to The Daily Beast or "any other woke propaganda outlet posing as a news company."

In early April, Trump even noted the shift in coverage, tweeting that he "gave up on Drudge...long ago, as have many others. People are dropping off like flies!"

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


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Drudge is panicking because he has lost 65% of his daily unique visitors since mid-March.

March 16, 2020 unique daily visitors: 4,521,821

Sept 1, 2020 unique daily visitors: 1,570,166,

Traffic Source: Quantcast

1 posted on 09/02/2020 7:30:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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The Drudge Report has become an embarrassing Never-Trump cringe fest


Can’t be worse than CNN. They are high comedy.


2 posted on 09/02/2020 7:31:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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Today is sillier. Melania used a private e-mail from the White House! Yeah: the Hatch Act requires her to.


3 posted on 09/02/2020 7:33:35 AM PDT by dangus (```)
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Don’t visit it. I stopped in 2017.


4 posted on 09/02/2020 7:33:36 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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Drudge, isn’t that a niche site for homosexual neocons that used to be conservative?


5 posted on 09/02/2020 7:34:30 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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I have not been to Drudge report for more than a year and will
never return. Liberals ruin everything.


6 posted on 09/02/2020 7:35:01 AM PDT by funfan
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Over-paid, racist, ingrates playing bouncy ball-ball...

Orange Ball Bad...

Bye-Bye...

7 posted on 09/02/2020 7:35:14 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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So? It no longer exists in my world.


8 posted on 09/02/2020 7:35:26 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: TakebackGOP

I haven’t been there in 10 years.

But it seems like every day there is a thread here about how much they suck. Maybe these people should just stop going there.


9 posted on 09/02/2020 7:35:43 AM PDT by shelterguy
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...oops, wrong thread.


10 posted on 09/02/2020 7:36:54 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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I have removed Dudge from my bookmarks.....


11 posted on 09/02/2020 7:37:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very)
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I haven’t been there in 10 years. But it seems like every day there is a thread here about how much they suck. Maybe these people should just stop going there.

Yep

12 posted on 09/02/2020 7:37:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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People have stopped going to Drudge. He’s lost 2/3rd’s of his audience in the past 6 months.


13 posted on 09/02/2020 7:38:21 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Hey, nobody noticed!.............


14 posted on 09/02/2020 7:38:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very)
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Heh...I’m getting old.


15 posted on 09/02/2020 7:40:06 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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Drudge was never more than a 3rd rate muckraker, in fact he wasn't even that. He was basically just a guy that stole the work of other journalists and posted links to it on his own website with catchy headlines and sirens. That schtick might have worked in 1996 (and made him very wealthy in the process), but in 2020 there are legions of "news aggregate" sites and Drudge is trying to stay relevant in a market that long passed him by.

Time for him to take that $500 million Google paid him and retire to the French Riviera with his boyfriend Pierre and become just another washed up ageing queen.

16 posted on 09/02/2020 7:40:33 AM PDT by apillar
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Drudge, isn’t that a niche site for homosexual neocons that used to be conservative?

Yes. Drudge is the second coming of David Brock. They’re like two pees in a pot.

17 posted on 09/02/2020 7:41:24 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Free Republic is still in the left hand margin of the Drudge Report.


18 posted on 09/02/2020 7:41:32 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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More here...

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3879987/posts


19 posted on 09/02/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT by Eddie01 (NRA)
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I hope not too many conservative pundits get suckered into this diversion play from Biden’s obvious failing mental condition. So many usually go for bait like this - disappointing.


20 posted on 09/02/2020 7:43:39 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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