You nailed it FRiend!
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.”
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Lets see Ted has all of talk radio sans Laura and Sean and Gallagher and Belling being fair at least
He has not had one iota of the concentrated fire upon him from the entire media Trump has
He is mostly beloved now by Fox which is now 85% nevertrump
He is now the darling of the vast GOPe
As well the darling of conservative powerhouses all over the Internet including NRO
and now Drudge to his everlasting credit seems perturbed that Cruz is shooting to thwart the will of the voters by working with GOPe to steal delegates that do not reflect the votes yet rationalizing it away cause he’s the best Christian and Conservative
And Ted is upset that Drudge almost stands alone against him in media
Amazing
You could read this part I excerpted for you. Cruzers quit giving drudge a single click months ago.
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.
“...who broke the story of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and still runs it,...”
Gadzooks, the WaPo low achievers really do not like the fact that Matt has about a zillion more readers than they have.
Oh well, anyone believing in Clinton, Dorkbama the Muslim,and Global Warming is not too far from the extreme left side of politics (not to mention the Bell curve).
And that’s just the opening salvo.
:)
“‘Attacking Drudge was weapons-grade stupid.’”
Yup ..You would think he learned his lesson after NYvalues. Anytime now Drudge could decide to put a siren up on Ted’s girlfriends or his lawsuits challenging his standing to run for president. Success and power breeds arrogance.
The next 3 weeks of primaries are not going to be a good news cycle for Ted. Drudge could easily provide the killshot.
Cruzlims??
Now that there was funny!
:-)
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
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Is Cruz whining?
Drudge never touched Cruz Amanda peccadilloes
Trump has weathered ~70 million dollars worth of attack ads—and that figure may be low. If a similar assault had been waged on Cruz, he’d have been long gone.
Up your meds. You’re not there yet.
Post of the thread
‘The next 3 weeks of primaries are not going to be a good news cycle for Ted. Drudge could easily provide the killshot.’
That is a much more likely scenario now, since Cruz made his stupid accusations, than it was before.
I see it as Drudge just doing his job and posting the news articles that are out there. No one is forced to go to that site.
He sure didn’t hold back on Newt
Drudge had a gay pal in the Romney camp
He and Fox killed Newt in 2012
& he turned on him with good reason since he’s become a sTRUMPet who’s now pushing his Ted cheated in Colorado meme...
Full disclosure:
I picked that up from someone else on these boards, although I don’t remember who.
I had the same reaction when I first saw ‘Cruzlims’, and it stuck with me ever since. Just seems so...appropos.
“Cruzers quit giving drudge a single click months ago.”
His problem is not with his supporters, it’s with the future voters he needs. He made a mistake on the level of NYValues. Success and power breeds arrogance.
“Interestingly, the increasing scrutiny from Drudge comes as the Democratic National Committee begins to train more of its fire at Cruz. After focusing almost single-mindedly on Trump for months, the DNC held a press call yesterday to blast the Texan ahead of campaign stops in California.
Ironically, they pushed a similar message as Drudge: “Cruz’s campaign is proving to be just as divisive for the Republican Party as his tenure in the Senate has been for our country,” said the DNC communications director. “That’s why there just isn’t a whole lot of excitement for Cruz being the Republican nominee.”
Drudge will be the winner!
That 70 million is low
It was around that in Florida alone
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