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The Drudge effect on the campaign
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Salena Zito

Posted on 05/28/2008 5:05:06 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk

The Drudge effect on the campaign Pittsburgh Tribune Review By Salena Zito Barack Obama's first mistake on Memorial Day was giving a speech that said his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz concentration camp. Since his mother, Stanley, was an only child that story was not going to hold water with reporters for long.

Obama's campaign said Tuesday the candidate meant to say that his great-Uncle, Charlie Payne, was the liberator.

And unless great-Uncle Charlie was a Russian that wasn’t true either. The Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945, not American forces.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton stepped in to fix that gaffe and said that Obama had mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald while telling his personal experience of a family soldier who served heroically.

When you are running on empty after over a year of hard-core campaigning, gaffes happen; they happen more often when you are putting in 18 hour barnstorms.

Hillary Clinton took hits last week for what some perceived as ‘inappropriate Kennedy’ remarks when she was making a point of why the campaign should go on into the summer.

Clinton’s ‘gaffe’ earned her top billing on The Drudge Report in blood-red print, with capital letters and bold type, with bells and music playing when you clicked on. (OK, just kidding about the bells and whistles, but you get the picture).

Obama's gaffe? Not so much. In fact, it is pretty much buried in The Drudge Report equivalent of A-13.

John McCain fares no better than Clinton on Drudge whether he is having a gaffe-day or a good day.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; army; democrats; drudge; election; elections; gop; memorialday; military; nobama; obama; obamatruthfile
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1 posted on 05/28/2008 5:05:07 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk
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To: LonesomeHawk
Clinton’s ‘gaffe’ earned her top billing on The Drudge Report in blood-red print, with capital letters and bold type.

This guy must have just discovered Drudge's site over the weekend. Drudge routinely uses bold and red color text.

2 posted on 05/28/2008 5:12:45 AM PDT by library user
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To: LonesomeHawk; Salena Zito
Authored by a FReeper.

FYI, Ms. Zito...

3 posted on 05/28/2008 5:13:16 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: LonesomeHawk
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton stepped in to fix that gaffe and said that Obama had mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald while telling his personal experience of a family soldier who served heroically.

Uncle, great uncle, Buchenwald, Auschwitz.....

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Germans?
Forget it, he's rolling.

4 posted on 05/28/2008 5:14:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: library user

Drudge has a ‘crush’ on Obama. There is a pattern of behavior that is crystal clear, pay attention freepers or you might get sucked in by the not so subliminal seduction.


5 posted on 05/28/2008 5:15:43 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk (The few. The proud.)
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To: Rummyfan

Obama could make 3,000 mistakes between now and November and it won’t matter to those prepared to vote for him. He’s an empty suit and those voting for him are empty headed. They care not about the facts!


6 posted on 05/28/2008 5:17:23 AM PDT by King Hawk
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To: LonesomeHawk

That Buchenwald, not Auschwitz, was liberated by the U.S. is walking-around knowledge for a man of Obama’s age and education. I bet his handlers in Moscow are not pleased.


7 posted on 05/28/2008 5:23:34 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: King Hawk
They care not about the facts!

You couldn't be more correct.

8 posted on 05/28/2008 5:24:33 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: LonesomeHawk

All that matters is “Change”.
The Titanic changed directions too.

Pray for W and Our Troops


9 posted on 05/28/2008 5:35:41 AM PDT by bray (If everyone hates you, you must be doin something right?)
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To: library user

I prefer www.spiritdaily.com


10 posted on 05/28/2008 5:37:14 AM PDT by philly-d-kidder (From Kuwait where the Weather is always Partly Sandy!)
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To: LonesomeHawk

I sent drudge a flaming message yesterday saying he is in the tank for Obama. I asked why the story was not even on his website when it was all over the internet. This morning it is buried on his site. I know he hates the Clintons, but I am beginning to lose respect for the guy. He is drunk on his own Kool Aid and maybe Obama’s too.


11 posted on 05/28/2008 5:40:41 AM PDT by milwguy (........)
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Bill Burton? Wasn’t he Dan Rather’s source for the forged documents? So, that’s where he’s gone to....the Obama campaign. I’m surprised he couldn’t document Obama’s uncle (secret white guy, unknown brother to his white mother) and document that the US Army under Patton really liberated Auschwitz. See, I have documents!


12 posted on 05/28/2008 5:42:05 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
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To: LonesomeHawk
The MSM would have given Obama the traditional "dem pass" on this if it hadn't been for Drudge.

Any gaff a Republican makes has always been caught and screamed from the highest MSM roof tops... so for us, nothing has changed.

Must be a horror for dems - having their lies exposed..

13 posted on 05/28/2008 5:53:10 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: milwguy

I also sent a note to Drudge asking him why he is pushing the Obamessiah so hard. It’s nauseating!


14 posted on 05/28/2008 6:01:38 AM PDT by marinamuffy (I really dislike McCain but I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against Hillary or the Obamanation.)
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To: LonesomeHawk
O.K., what specific unit was "great uncle" Charlie Payne in. Can anybody follow this up, and see if it's just another lie?

Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

15 posted on 05/28/2008 6:02:38 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The US Navy


16 posted on 05/28/2008 6:10:42 AM PDT by noname07718 (The Senate is based on consensus. “Consensus is the absence of leadership” - Lady M.Thatcher)
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To: noname07718

And I take it he wasn’t a Seabee building and fighting in Europe either?


17 posted on 05/28/2008 6:12:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: LonesomeHawk
When you are running on empty after over a year of hard-core campaigning

Obama has been running on empty from Day One of this campaign.

18 posted on 05/28/2008 6:14:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: LonesomeHawk

according to the Holocaust Museum and US Army, the 89th Infantry Division was given credit for liberating Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald on 4 Apr 1945. This means that some element of the division was at the camp. The Holocaust museum and the Army do not give credit to individual regiments, battalions or companies.


19 posted on 05/28/2008 6:28:26 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
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To: library user
This guy must have just discovered Drudge's site over the weekend. Drudge routinely uses bold and red color text.

It's a good thing he never watches any of the cable media coverage of the campaigns - the rare times my wife and I are flipping through the TV channels and stop on CNN during their political panel show they have in the evening, it becomes a game of "spot the computer display with the Drudge Report".
20 posted on 05/28/2008 7:26:14 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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