Posted on 12/16/2021 3:43:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Of course I’m not a mod. But you should be saying this to the people you replied to, not me.
I hope everyone will take a look at my daily news feed with my commentary on each article (no more than 1-2 lines).
It posts about noon at www.uncoverdc.com under “Today’s News: The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow.”
And now we’ve added a video of me reading these headlines, something like the old G. Gordon Liddy show, except I only do the headlines & a quip, not the full article.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
John, John, John.
I found Free Republic through Drudge too. This site and Rush Limbaugh (God rest his soul) kept me sane post 9/11. I check Drudge about 1x/year to check the condition of the site.
I just took a peek at his trashy site, and it is what I expected. Top stories all on Covid variant Omicron and every link is fear porn.
A few feel-good stories on Hillary and a DA still deciding to charge Trump (doesn’t say with what—Matt knows he’s guilty is enough.)
Also, the link to Free Republic is gone.
It’s all your fault, Jarhead
Yeah, probably is... 8~)
I found FR by listening to Hannity. He was/is apparently a a FReeper and would occasionally mention FR on his show. I quit listening to Hannity years ago but still come here for news and entertainment.
But a name like "Drudge Report" or even "The Huffington Post" is easier to remember than "Town Hall" or "Red State" or "Hot Air" or "[Something] Pundit." Putting your name in the title of the site means that you are responsible for what it says. It didn't work out that way with Drudge, who eventually turned over his site to others, but that could have been the reason for the site's name.
Doesn’t Drudge’s father start that?.
There was no problem with his first reply, and the rest of his replies were more polite than the recipient deserved (including the one to you.) I understand being skeptical of people who just signed up, because we have had plenty of disrupters, but w don't need to be jerks toward them until they actually start misbehaving.
I just love the fact that an idiot who thought he was a reincarnated Walter Winchel in a fedora also thought he was a journalist for posting links to real journaists stories. Drudge was and is the beginning of the end of responsible journalism. Cherry picked headlines for sensationalism? Drudge reports. Drudge decides.
Somewhere in the fog of my memory...I think so.
“People who name their websites after themselves are, I’d say without exception, egomaniacs.”
well, krap, now i’m gonna have to rename my website pronto ...
I found Drudge when he broke the Lewinski scandal. I found FR on Drudge. I have not been back to Drudge since he went liberal. I dropped out of FR for about 5 years when the religious wars overwhelmed the rest of the content. I guess Trump's election brought me back. The flame wars seem to have subsided for the most part.
No worries.
I hear you. I left for about a year and a half, once upon a time. And about 3 months more recently.
Uh no...it is a descriptor of someone who signed up just a little over a month ago.
Don’t believe Drudge has that much reach, or that Free Republic has that little. When Drudge was at his peak, I ran an ad on it, in font like his, so it would look like an article, with a text that any conservative would click on. I was told the ad was to be served one million times, and I figured most conservatives who saw it would click on it. The ad only got 137 click throughs from the million serves, and I would not be surprised some of those were bots crawling the web. I think they lie about Drudge’s numbers, and they do that for a lot of sites they control.
I have my own site now, and I see traffic stuff from the inside, and much of the numbers you are told are bull. I have gotten a link from National Review which sent me about 200 clicks, despite it supposedly having 10 million pageviews per month, and I have gotten a link from author/publisher/media-guy Vox Day’s blog, and had ten thousand page views, despite him only having like a few million pageviews per month back then.
I have noticed many sites, like NR, or Daily Caller, etc seem to have a lot of press, and we are told they have millions of viewers, but I will bet they have nothing like that, and FR has a lot more, because those sites are hit or miss content-wise, but FR always has stuff that brings people back.
Plus, now that I have been in politics through the site and publishing, all I am going to say is much of what you have been told - about other people’s beliefs, about how government works, and about your own life and freedom, is gaslighting, designed to control you and make you accept things you would never accept otherwise.
Really, I still periodically just shake my head. Nothing works like you are told.
“Drudge went from Alex Jones to Bill Kristol in the span of less than 1 year. What kind of cash or TBI would that take?”
You will eventually understand. Most people in politics understand because they see it firsthand, but it hasn’t drifted down to the casual observers yet. It is much, much worse than you could believe possible.
Drudge was either threatened, blackmailed, or bought off, or some combination, supposedly months before the 2020 election. I doubt he has had anything to do with the site since then. He even wrote on his twitter profile that he was the former editor of the Drudge Report, but then had to take it down. I assumed it was him trying to tell everyone he wasn’t really turned, but had no choice.
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