Posted on 04/12/2016 8:08:52 AM PDT by mandaladon
The Drudge Report has aggressively portrayed Ted Cruz’s sweep of all the delegates from Colorado’s Republican convention as a corrupt power grab.
The site named for Matt Drudge, who broke the story of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and still runs it, links to nine stories this morning with salacious headlines about the convention. Among them: “Savage: Cruz should disavow rigged Colorado election … Buchanan: Apparatchiks thieve delegates for Ted … 1 MILLION REPUBLICANS SIDELINED … Border Patrol Agents: Colorado Voters Disenfranchised.” Keep in mind that this is three days after the Colorado convention.
Our analytics partners at Zignal Labs say the Drudge attacks are breaking through on social media in a significant way. This word cloud, which tracks all Cruz mentions since Saturday, shows the extent to which Drudge has shaped the conversation about Cruz’s win in Colorado. Note the prominence of the words “cheating” and “drudge”:
This kind of squabbling will only get louder as the delegate wrestling and wrangling intensifies. And it has clearly gotten under Cruz’s skin.
In a radio interview yesterday, the Texas senator ripped into Drudge as an arm of Donald Trump’s campaign. “In about the past month, the Drudge Report has basically become the attack site for the Trump campaign,” he told conservative host Mike Slater. “So every day they have the latest Trump attack. They’re directed at me. … Most days they have a six-month-old article that is some attack on me, and it’s whatever the Trump campaign is pushing that day will be the banner headline on Drudge.”
“By the way, they no longer cover news,” Cruz added of Drudge. “When we win a state, suddenly the state doesn’t matter. You know Colorado — there was no red siren on Drudge when we won all 34 delegates in Colorado.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Matt Drudge carried the same water for Mitt Romney as he is for Donald Trump.
For the same reasons.
It’ll have the same result.
I’ve been here 7 years before you, so I must have an excellent plan for being a GOPe mole. Newest soundbyte you saw somewhere else? Good at those bytes! Get a grip. It’s no worse than Conservative Treehouse
“In a radio interview yesterday, the Texas senator ripped into Drudge as an arm of Donald Trump’s campaign.”
Ted, do you want some cheese with that whine?
I couldn't believe Drudge would lay off a story that titillating, but to his credit or detriment (depending on your Cruzer/Trumpster status), he had absolutely nothing to do with the story.
And please, Cruzers. Don't throw up any kind of "tabloid/reputable source" smokescreen. We all know that Drudge has sensationalized stories more with less information/facts contained in the Enquirer story, using even less credible sources.
Looking forward to President Clinton, I see.
By the way, did Drudge complain when Trump only received 45.7% of the vote yet got ALL 99 delegates in Florida?
Trump STOLE Florida from a majority of the voters—he DISENFRANCHISED them!
It’s not fair! It’s not fair!
...by a very thin, very weak thread....
Think about this folks.
How many places are backing Trump?
The Eagle Forum and Matt Drudge are probably the only two.
Look what happened to the Eagle Forum yesterday.
Ted is now on attack mode against Matt Drudge.
Think about that.
Ted can’t stand ANY (at all) opposition.
The guy is a childish immature freak!
Folks, you better hope this guy never gets ANY real power.
Whoever has gotten to Rush hasn’t gotten to Drudge.
See, Pookie, here is a cartoon that has an edge over the layer of truth. Consider how quickly Ted Cruz turned on Matt Drudge. Someone who didn’t run the National Enquirer story, yet.
I think the modern day equivalent for “buying ink by the barrel” is getting well over 8 1/2 billion hits last year.
Attacking Drudge was weapons-grade stupid.
Lyin Cruz is a Thug. No surprise.
‘Attacking Drudge was weapons-grade stupid.’
Attacking Drudge is what Obama would have done in similar circumstances...and for the same reason.
Yeah, the Chicoms,NORKS,Islamonazis, and Russians will definitely behave themselves to keep a President Trump from whining.
so let me get this right...Cruz has one news outlet who attacks him for Lyin’ and Disinfranchisin’
Trump has hundreds of News outlets bombarding him every day from all over the world. Not to mention nuclear attacks from his own so-called republican party!
Cruz is ignorant of the rules, thus his unarmed fight with Drudge.
Drudge’s retort this morning:
CRUZ IN JANUARY: ‘We have got the Drudge Report’...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/24/ted_cruz_we_have_got_the_drudge_report_the_mainstream_media_stranglehold_is_over.html
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