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The Real “Game Change” of 2008… Drudge Goes In the Tank for Obama, Blocks Breitbart - John Ziegler
John Ziegler ^ | 3/7/2012 | John Ziegler

Posted on 03/07/2012 11:38:43 PM PST by Joy Angela

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1 posted on 03/07/2012 11:38:52 PM PST by Joy Angela
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To: Joy Angela

Ziegler cashing in on Andy?

Nothing eye popping here at all, except for the .com address in RED.

Only Andrew could manage his gift to be able to bait and manipulate and dog whistle the media into some reaction only Andrew could predict.

There will not be another. Michelle Malkin has the in-your-face command similar to Brietbart, but the “savant” of Andrew is lost. He ate the media for breakfast. No one does that, but by accident once in a blue moon.

And the kid who played the “pimp” to ACORN. THAT is one courageous little fellow, a Breitbart protege maybe.


2 posted on 03/07/2012 11:54:23 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: Joy Angela
First: I like John. IMO he is a good guy and a good investigative reporter.
Yeahm he burned bridges and p.o'ed a lot of people along his trip;but thats the price you have to pay a lot of times for following your own path. He did that.
Second: I have never considered Matt drudge to be a 'conservative.'
Libertarian...maybe. But, IMO, Drudge is a businessman and muckraker first and foremost.
I agree with almost everything John has said in this piece. Almost all of it has been followed here on FR.
3 posted on 03/07/2012 11:54:47 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Joy Angela

>>and did so without a lot of conviction... <<

Without conviction? Since when was AB ever w/out conviction?

I suspect this author to be an outlier.


4 posted on 03/07/2012 11:55:54 PM PST by Daffynition (On Andrew Breitbart: In his honor, I'll fight harder...He'll be back and he'll be millions.)
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To: Tainan

Yup. I was listening to KFI live here in L.A. years ago when Ziegler broke the “you don’t have an education if you are a soldier in Iraq” THAT John F Kerry quipped. Then KFi fired him or he left, depends on who you believe. Ziegler has a very sharp wit when he went on CNN and just blitzed the CNN anchor who was drooling all over Obama while smirking..I believe Ziegler more than those drones on Drudge.


5 posted on 03/08/2012 12:00:56 AM PST by max americana
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To: Daffynition
I am always on Drudge and was before the 2008 election. I don't think Drudge was or is in the tank for Obama and I don't think Drudge is the reason why Obama was elected.
6 posted on 03/08/2012 12:04:57 AM PST by funfan
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To: Daffynition

I got caught up on the claim that Andrew was a business man first! If he was he sure hid it well, I could have sworn his passion was outing the media complex.


7 posted on 03/08/2012 12:12:27 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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To: funfan

So your opinion is unchanged by the article? Do you think it’s all lies?


8 posted on 03/08/2012 12:16:51 AM PST by donna (Republicans won't change their ways until conservatives draw the line.)
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To: Joy Angela

Zig is all about zig, but he’s pretty honest. I believe him. I don’t understand drudge, that is for sure. He is very in the tank for Romney.

I love breitbart. I don’t think he was afraid of Nuthin!! Not even drudge. I miss him. I hope his plans for the tapes, whatever they were, will be successful. We needed breitbart.


9 posted on 03/08/2012 12:17:07 AM PST by Yaelle (Santorum 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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To: Joy Angela

Drudge is homosexual, hence he supports Obama.


10 posted on 03/08/2012 12:20:57 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: funfan

funfan: “I don’t think Drudge was or is in the tank for Obama...”

Yeah. Just like he’s not in the tank for Romney...


11 posted on 03/08/2012 12:22:04 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Joy Angela
...he told me they had only spoken twice in the approximately ten years he had help run the site at that point

This is an interesting little nugget. Is Drudge kind of a recluse?

12 posted on 03/08/2012 12:32:26 AM PST by Yardstick
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I was talking with my husband about it and he said he felt there are glimmers of truth somewhere in the story. For me I know that I never watch Good Morning America and to say they broke the story on Rev. Wright I find laughable.
From the story:
“Breitbart never really knew why Drudge took this obvious pro-Obama position (interestingly, he told me they had only spoken twice in the approximately ten years he had help run the site at that point). He theorized that perhaps Drudge had become too “Europeanized,” but I personally concluded that Drudge simply knew that having Obama around would be fantastic for business. Breitbart never wanted to divulge any of this publicly out of respect for (and fear of) of Drudge, but the Andrew I knew would have wanted people to know about this after he was gone.”

Mr. Zigler personally concluded -which means it is his opinion and Andrew is not here to challenge it. Mr. Zigler also stated “Breitbart never wanted to divulge any of this publicly out of respect for (and fear of) of Drudge,—and goes on to say that Andrew would have wanted people to know this after he was gone—how do we know that except for Mr. Ziglers words.

I find the story and timing odd and honestly I feel like I am living in alternate universe and it is getting stranger
everyday.


13 posted on 03/08/2012 12:36:36 AM PST by funfan
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Hahaha my husband thinks Drudge is in the tank for Romney
and so do a lot of other people.
14 posted on 03/08/2012 12:43:12 AM PST by funfan
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To: Joy Angela

Zeigler is not to be trusted


15 posted on 03/08/2012 12:44:31 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

“I got caught up on the claim that Andrew was a business man first! If he was he sure hid it well, I could have sworn his passion was outing the media complex.”
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I have the same impression. The war he declared at CPAC was on the liberal media complex. He wasn’t even very interested in policy.

He got off on getting under peoples skin and arguing.I am sure he wanted his passion to pay well, he had a family to support.

Breitbart needed to be bold, daring and keep attention on himself— how else could he fight the liberal media and live his passion with the side benefit of making money from it?

I still keep going back to Breitbart talking about silver ponytails at CPAC. The video released today was nothing about silver ponytails. Does he have proof Obama was around Ayers in his college years?

That would have an impact, I believe. As if Obama was plotted, groomed and just about installed for the radical silver-ponytails.
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Obama: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.”


16 posted on 03/08/2012 12:51:31 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: funfan

It sounds to me and appearances what they are...it is Mr. Ziegler with business on the brain. Brietbart, DRUDGE—they’re all about business, yes sir ( nothing wrong with that, either). But of course this story goes to the Ziegler Obama movie, which he mentions in this piece, too.


17 posted on 03/08/2012 12:55:30 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Joy Angela

So Drudge is a fairy protecting Zero and probably Willard too..

He’s starting to appear as a malefactor..
The Rinos(Coulter) and Ringers(Drudge) are coming out of the woodwork..

The lights in the political kitchen are surely on..
O’Really must be an opportunistic mouse..

I may have fallen down a bunny hole..


18 posted on 03/08/2012 1:00:20 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Irenic
Yes I noticed that Mr. Zigler was re-releasing the movie and then he has the headline about the real game change of 2008-Drudge in the tank for Obama or something like that.

Interesting to say the least.

19 posted on 03/08/2012 1:00:46 AM PST by funfan
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To: Irenic

I have no doubt that the videos he mentioned at Cpac are NOT what we saw on Hannity, not by a long shot. Either they are doing it exactly the way Andrew would, the whole slow drip strategy or they got scared...who knows!

Does anyone who ever followed his website and tweets really believe for a second that what was put out today was all he had?? Not on your life, he would never embarass himself with something so weak. He always had the info that packed the biggest punch.

Honestly, this whole nation has tipped over into the twilight zone!


20 posted on 03/08/2012 1:07:08 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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