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Oops, Drudge Did It Again
PJ Media ^ | 01/12/2024 | Stephen Green

Posted on 01/11/2024 9:52:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Ever since PJ's own managing editor, Paula Bolyard, gave ur-blogger Matt Drudge a virtual black eye, I've made it a point to visit the Drudge Report once or twice a week, just to keep an eye on lefty cray-cray over there. Today was one of those Drudge days and — as happens almost without fail — I found a cringeworthy instance of the site's increasingly laughable lefty bias.

Before I get to that, here's a quick history of the Drudge Report as a news junky's go-to site.

Since the invention of tabbed browsing almost 20 years ago, I must have spent more than a dozen of them with one browser tab permanently devoted to Drudge. Before then, his site was a more-than-daily visit from the time he broke the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky story that Newsweek had tried to bury. Long before the mainstream media had social media giants to help them hide dirty laundry like Hunter Biden's Laptop from Hell or peddle fiction like Donald Trump's Russia collusion, bloggers like Drudge were able to hold the MSM to account.

The job falls to sites like PJ Media now and, as someone who has been with the company since its 2005 launch, I'm fine with that.

I closed Drudge's perma-tab early in 2016. He was pushing Trump so hard, to the detriment of every other story that concerned me, that for the first time since 1998, there was no point in visiting even once a day. Three years later, I read that the Drudge Report had swung so hard and so fast in the other direction that the constant anti-Trump links — usually highlighted in red, often with the famous animated police siren GIF — that I had to see it with my own eyes.

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To: scott7278; McGruff

Same here.


21 posted on 01/12/2024 5:25:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Newsies reporting on newsies is the height of laziness and ineptness


22 posted on 01/12/2024 5:34:54 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Are men so soft brained that all it takes is poking a lefty woman for them to change their political principles? We do have one friend who did that. But really? I call that thinking with the wrong head.


23 posted on 01/12/2024 5:50:23 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Bikkuri
Might have gotten involved with a progressive MAN. Or a T-Girl.

Anyone looking at "Rear" Admiral Rachel Levine's relationships?


24 posted on 01/12/2024 6:22:47 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Does so

Sw Dade yes

Her family had a nearly glades grandfathered place west of krome

I lived brickell and gables 88-94


25 posted on 01/12/2024 7:08:33 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Bikkuri

I can recall being surprised to see Drudge up on Rush’s computer long after I ditched his site as my home page.


27 posted on 01/12/2024 7:18:55 AM PST by daler
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To: SeekAndFind

Drudge always was a go-to site until it turned absolutely and unequivocally leftist! My understanding is that it was sold to a leftist group and thus the change. Who knows? I avoid it now!


28 posted on 01/12/2024 7:29:21 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: wardaddy

I lived Gables 1960-1980. Unincorporated South Miami—behind Tony Roma’s on the highway—1980-1999-excellent 1940s Florida neighborhood, but changing upscale.

Not missing The Reconquista, and not leaving The Keys to go back!


29 posted on 01/12/2024 1:09:33 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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