Is Drudge Losing His Influence?
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 4:30pm
Eric Boehlert thinks that might be the case:
The race is unrecognizable in terms of where the players are situated now and where they were five weeks ago. (Between September 15 and October 19, there was a 12-point swing in the Gallup daily tracking poll.) Now ask yourself: What role has the Drudge Report played in that burst of campaign movement? The answer, of course, is zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. His trademark flashing red lights have gone missing.
The dynamics of the campaign have irrevocably changed, and the mighty Drudge Report, the news site Beltway journalists trip over themselves to genuflect in front of, has been a complete bystander in the closing weeks of the 2008 campaign. [..]
The reason is simple. Because of the unprecedented economic turmoil, we're now in serious times. (Fifty thousand home foreclosures this year, in the state of New Jersey alone, is serious business.) And the Drudge Report doesn't do serious. The American public's attention has shifted from the campaign to the economy, and that's why the Drudge Report remains largely irrelevant to that unfolding story.[..]
As long as those patterns hold, Drudge finds himself in no-man's-land with no levers of power to pull.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving hack. While we're looking at influence exerted during this campaign, Peter Daou urges the netroots not to underestimate our power.
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I hope that along with his influence he also loses those hats.
He had influence?
Read Eric Boehlert's piece (link above). He is a favorite of the Beltway crowd.
There was a point that you could plot the media narratives on The Politico strictly from Drudge. They've gotten a little better recently--but not much.
Of course he is loved by inside the beltway after all the boy is from Maryland.
Unfortunatly, his brain still has David Brock on his mind. Good thing that Dave has class.
I'm tired of his lies.
Drudge is like checking out at the end of the line at the supermarket and staring into the tabloids like "Martian Face Floats Over Saginaw" unfortunately Republicans would immediately want to shut down Saginaw.
http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/deathi...
Of all the hacks, I know less about him than any. Never realized he was an impact.
This is a great observation and let's enjoy it for a little bit but let's not fool ourselves into this kind of thinking. Whether we end up with McCain (which is still a possibility if we're willing to be serious and honest with ourselves) or Obama (which I'm really hopeful for) as President, even with a solid Democratic majority in Congress and red states turn blue, these so-called "hacks" aren't going away. They're message, whatever it's worth, is going to be stepped up time after time because they work, whether they're outright lies, innuendo or clever half-truths. Even now some of our fellow Americans are allowing themselves to start believing the McCain/Palin mischaracterization of Obama when they were already leaning toward him. These tactics work, "my friends", because more than half of us are largely uninformed and therefore easily misinformed.
I'm just sayin'....
you can't lose what you don't have.
Daou's column brought tears to my eyes. It shows that all this blogging by all these people - high traffic, low traffic, popular, niche, political and other may not be just pissing into the wind after all.
So the DJIA closes at 8,519.21 down another 514.45 or 5.69%. The 900+ spike of last week is all but erased and this was just a dead cat bouncing around.
We have a full blown recession on the way, in Michigan we have been in recession for years, now it is bordering on a depression.
Too much of a nit to go legit!
Bleah.... that was my cat hacking up a hairball that looks better than that funny guy with the hat.
What's with that hat, anyway? Don't they give the guy a bathroom?
Men wear hats like that for one of two reasons:
1) To connect themselves to a time when wearing one was a sign of being a gentleman and credible;
2) To hide baldness.
Chris Cillizza over at WaPo's "The Fix" still cites him all the time. How anyone can look at what he does and call it journalism is beyond me.
But, but, he's got that old-tyme journalist's hat thing goin' on; the dick.
Isn't it ironic how all the polls shows Obama rise and Drudge shows the AP poll? What a loser. He and Limpsalls and O'Lielly will have a meltdown on Nov. 4. Even if McCain wins, the Democrats will gain even more seats.
When the going gets tough, only a moron would pay attention to Drudge. It is worth remembering that when I left for work at 8:00 AM on September 11, 2001, the only news story was about whether some idiot congressman had slept with a missing staff member (who was later found murdered - to her I mean no disrespect). I don't remember hearing anything out of drudge for a couple of years. I'm just saying...
Nice fudkin' hat. It screams, "I'm fulla myself."
The role of the Free & Informed Press as described by the Constitution, was abdicated by MSM long ago, but now the Internet has taken its place. We must NEVER give it up.
Really. I was ashamed when I saw him on TV and realized he is actually quite intellectually challenged. Not a nasty guy really, just deeply retarded and in the company of ultra-rightists imposing a fascist influence. I always thought he was just a nasty twit trying to make money by appealing to the paleo- and psycho-conservative blocks. Oh, well, I hope his mom gives him a juice box when he posts.
There are 2 websites my Repug co-workers at Boeing go for their daily news updates to keep informed: Faux News and The Drudge Report.
Drudge? Influence? hahahahahahahahaha... I'm sorry... but that was funny.
I'm amazed that this low rent Walter Winchell wannabe ever had any influence in the first place. Sure you aren't mistaking him for someone else?
I used to visit drudge daily for the past year. Within the past month, I've noticed a growing peculiar irrelevancy to Drudge. He's obviously a sellout to repub with fake polls, completely skewed reporting, (and some kind of weird obsession with kinky sexually oriented stories - but that's another matter).
I think the neo-con/repub sucking media whores will die off one by one as they are viewed more and more as increasingly irrelevant and more importantly, intentionally deceptive as objective sources of news.
Isn't Matt Drudge a closet case? I seem to remember hearing that. He certainly comes across that way.
Like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a surgeon.
is the Hedda Hopper of Washington. Nothing more, nothing less.
What decade is this guy living in, the forties? Does he wear wing-tips and an ascot too? Does he carry his machine gun in a violin case?
Drudge... catchy name. Is that short for drudgery? Or a portmanteau of drivel and sludge?
he is looking forward to obama's 8 years of presidency.
he's a capitalist for chr*st's sake, why would he want mccain?
After the election of Barack Obama, the MSM will start smearing Obama daily (with the aid of the GOP), and we'll start talking about garbage again. Many thought that after 9/11 the MSM would start talking about real news stories for a change. Well, the seriousness wore off within a year or so, and the MSM were back to kissing Bush's ass by the time the 2002 election rolled around.
you should apologize.
to jeffrey dahmer.
as to boehlert's piece, i featured one paragraph of his on my quote of the day the other day:
i'm laughing. the entire hardly-ever-right wing blogosphere is apoplectic w/impotence, if there is such a thing.
Prediction: Wolf Blitzer and his fellow lazy talking pieholes will be turning to the progressive blogs for the news which they will then repackage and present in 15 minute portions four times an hour.
For the past two days now, Drudge has bannered the top of his page with black and white (photoshop filtered) images of/about Obama
yesterday: http://www.drudgereport.com/opray.jpg (saved)
today: http://www.drudgereport.com/osta.jpg (saved)
I'm not sure what his message is, but it looks ugly to me.
Maybe he can do that with Ted Haggard or Larry Craig...
Anyone who goes around proclaiming himself as a 'white house gossip'...
He put too much into Hillary then turned to Mccain...I used to use it as a jump but have not clicked on a story in months.
Skippy -- apoplectic with impotence. I love that!
But seriously, I never go to Drudge's site because the one time I did, it looked so amateurish. Other than the blue dress, has he ever gotten any scoop correct? I remember the "Kerry having an affair with reporter" scoop that turned out to be nonsense, but what else?
I have seen this guy on tv like a couple of times, never thought he had anytype of influence, he looks like a retard with those hats
http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com/
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