Is Drudge Turing Liberal?

Me

[GulliverSwift]

Look at this Drudge Headline from Yesterday, quoting bush saying "WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED" And at the same time putting up this picture of Bush:

What is he trying to say?

And then there's his never-ending obsession with what liberal hollywodd people are saying, as well as doing. I DON'T CARE what a dime a dozen actor thinks!

I think he's letting liberal reporter's culture seep into him. It's sad.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

For every ONE story of Drudge that is posted here, a HUNDRED other stories are posted.

Irony, non-literalism, and poetic overstatement are lost on you, obviously.

[GulliverSwift]

I guess I overstated, and so did you. Agreed?

I don't think I overstated; but I still go to his site, because he does occasionally have good exclusives, such as a few days ago about Al Gore running for president.

I think he's following the fad of calling Bush dumb.

[Dallas]

He's pro-life......so he gets a pass in my book.

[pettifogger]

I never go to the Drudge site anymore. FR is a far better source of news.

Ditto. I went to Drudge before I found FR. Now he's not even on the favorites list.

[Seajay]

Drudge is where I found FR ... way back in 98

[martin_fierro]

He and David Brock can spank each other.

[Protagoras]

I don't think I overstated;

Ok, I was trying to make a point, most of the political stuff, and a lot of the non-political stuff on his site finds it's way here. Which of course is different from the " most of the stuff here came from there" comment I made. So, mea culpa.

But 100 to 1? I doubt that you have stats to back that up, so I'm sticking with the "overstated" comment until you post the stats. :-)

[x]

Drudge isn't a party-line guy. His idol is fast-talking snap-brimmed newshound Walter Winchell. And gossip-hunting was always more important to Winchell than anything else.

There's also a thin-line between posting funny, affectionate, Bush-positive pictures of the President as lucianne.com does and posting funny, nasty, Bush-negative pictures of GWB as a leftist site would. Sometimes how one reacts is in the eye of the beholder.

But Drudge is nothing like the kind of phenomenon he was four or five years ago. We know more sites now that will give us what we want, so there's little need to visit his site anymore.

[Saundra Duffy]

I miss Drudge on Fox News TV. I loved his program; it was the only of its kind. Drudge is great! For victory & freedom!!!

[Cicero]

Nothing new here. Drudge made his reputation bashing clinton, but he has always hated Bush. During the campaign he broke several lying stories about Bush. I have NEVER seen him put Bush in a good light on his web pages.

[Landru]

Wanna square-up the sleeze meister Sludge?

Don't go there: ever.

I even took it a step further myself, too; after having been long fed-up with this creep's Lamestream muckraking tactics.

...I made Foxnews my homepage.

[reagent]

Let me get this straight. If you don't agree with President Bush, a Republican, then you're a liberal? I don't agree with him, I think that his is yet another administration that continues to trounce on the Constitution in order to secure power for the country's elite. I guess I could be considered a liberal, except for the basic contradiction: I believe in the CONSTITUTION!

[Eala]

>I never go to the Drudge site anymore. FR is a far better source of news.
Which is kinda funny since a large part of what is posted here comes directly from his site.

A large part? Not in the areas I'm reading. Relatively little of what I read comes from there. And at least several times, when I still read both sites, I saw news items pop up here long before it appeared on Drudge.

[Uncle Hal]

Drudge is first of all a gossip columnist. He loves sleeze. He lives for rumor and the current buzz that is going around. He throws in hard news when he finds it appropriate. You have to take him for what he is. He is out front with a lot of stories. The Lewinsky matter will be his crowning glory and he will be remembered for that forever. I enjoy him and go their first thing in the morning. He is right of center but he goes where the news is. You have to respect him for that.

[Protagoras]

I corrected all of your concerns in posts #19 and #27.

[Rodney King]

I find it bizarre the way that on FR, if you have ever been our friend on any single issue, you must then toe the line 100% or you are an evil liberal sell-out. People say the same about Limbaugh every day. I have news for you. Drudge is not a "conservative" news site. It is a news site. It owes no allegiance to you or anyone else. Besides how you could not know that Drudge got his start posting solely about hollywood issues, yet claim to have enough knowledge to comment about him is beyond me.

[GulliverSwift]

Notice I said, "obsession with what liberal hollywodd people are saying, as well as doing."

I put "what they're saying," before the tack-on, what they're "doing." He always posts the attacks on Bush and the liberal opinions that hollywood people are "saying."

I put that first and that's not gossip, it's them (actors) making a liberal statement and hoping reporters will pick up on it and spread it around. Drudge obliges them. Gossip is about rumours about who is going to picked for the part in a movie, etc.

Imagine if there were a website out there that frequently posted the views of prominent conservatives, and with no comment, just a link to the story. Every other day there would be a prominent conservative's criticism bashing Democrats put up--with not comment--for millions to see. That's what Drudge is in reverse.

As far as Bush bashing, most of the criticsims of Bush he links to are NOT by conservatives who are concerned about protecting the Constitution. Most are links to Democrats and libbies who are bashing him for not being liberal enough.

[GulliverSwift]

Well, at the time I posted this at 2:04, it's now about 16:27, and there have been around 142 new threads posted on FR since that time. Drudge has about 30 articles on his page. Yes, it'll more of ratio more than 100/1, and a lot of Drudge's headlines stay there for more than one day anway.

[GulliverSwift]

Oops, it's 7:26. Even more proves my point, 142 articles in four hours!

[TLBSHOW]

Just for the heck of it lets drop in on Ann Coulter and see what she has ro say about matt drudge.


JS, cornell review: Matt Drudge.


AC: Oh, he’s a good friend of mine. I love Matt. He’s terrific. He’s totally great. He’s more hardcore than I am. He trusts no one in the mainstream media, no one.