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Bob Cesca caught this interesting top item at Drudge last night:

This headline of a mad man doesn’t link to anything, it just sits are like something rDrunk Newsped out on a keyboard out of frustration. It seems like Drudge is implying that everyone is wrong but him. PerhDrunk Newss he is upset that a media didn’t take his lead & report on a unreliable poll he posted a couple of weeks ago showing Obama with only a two point lead. Maybe he is just trying to steer away attention from a story turned hoax that he pushed so hard last week of Ashley Todd.

No matter what a reasoning for this odd headline, it is obvious Drudge has had a rough time lately pushing his misleading & just plain wrong stories. As matter of fact times have been so rough for Drudge that it looks like he just want to end 2008 now:

Notice a title of his page? Poor Matt Drudge has now transported himself to 2009. I really doubt 2009 is going to be much better for him.

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back

Eric Boehlert thinks that might be a case:

a race is unrecognizable in terms of where a players are situated now & where ay were five weeks ago. (Between September 15 & October 19, are was a 12-point swing in a Gallup daily tracking poll.) Now ask yourself: What role has a Drudge Report played in that burst of campaign movement? a answer, of course, is zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. His trademark flashing red lights have gone missing.

a dynamics of a campaign have irrevocably changed, & a mighty Drudge Report, a news site Beltway journalists trip over amselves to genuflect in front of, has been a complete byst&er in a closing weeks of a 2008 campaign. [..]

a reason is simple. Because of a unprecedented economic turmoil, we’re now in serious times. (Fifty thous& home foreclosures this year, in a state of New Jersey alone, is serious business.) & a Drudge Report doesn’t do serious. a American public’s attention has shifted from a campaign to a economy, & that’s why a Drudge Report remains largely irrelevant to that unfolding story.[..]

As long as those patterns hold, Drudge finds himself in no-man’s-l& with no levers of power to pull.

Couldn’t hDrunk Newspen to a more deserving hack. While we’re looking at influence exerted during this campaign, Peter Daou urges a netroots not to underestimate our power.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

  Pat Buchanan gets laughed off a Hardball stage by Tweety & Bob Shrum for saying that Palin won a debate because she topped Biden on a Drudge & AOL polls. Forget CBS & CNN, you know, a real pollsters. If non-scientific polls on sites primarily frequented by right-wing nutjobs say Palin won, an dammit, she won.

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Buchanan: “Well, I mean Drudge found it 70-30, AOL found it 500,000 split.”

Mataws: But those aren’t polls. Those are people emailing in on conservative blog sites. We can do those! [laughter]

Shrum: “For Pat to be citing, like, a AOL poll or a Drudge poll which is set up, shows us how much he wants to do cartwheels because she didn’t commit a pratfall on stage.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

a imagery isn’t lost on Matt Drudge. He’s a just a plain old pig—no matter how many times Mark Halperin praises him. Take a guess at how he’ll frame Obama next. Might it include a hood of some kind? (h/t Chris)

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Steve posted Fri about ABC News’ Jake TDrunk Newsper’s article that completely misrepresented what Bill Clinton said in a speech delivered in Denver on Wed regarding climate change & a economy. Brad at Sadly No! justifiably raked Jake over a coals for his Drunk Newsparent illiteracy in interpreting what Clinton meant from a transcript, but I must add that after seeing a video which TDrunk Newsper has posted several links to in his article, I’m inclined to believe are’s just no way anyone could have misinterpreted what he meant. See for yourself.

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Even though TDrunk Newsper Drunk Newsparently watched that same video, he has since added in an update that he “wasn’t sure just what Clinton meant.” Now whear it is even possible for a journalist at ABC to be that stupid or whear he just continues to be deliberately misleading, I suppose that could be open to debate, but a problem is that now, days after Jake’s misleading piece had been thoroughly debunked & taken to task by blogs on a left & a right, a story unsurprisingly made it into a echo chamber where it was picked up by a likes of Drudge, Rush Limbaugh & now is showing up in publications with titles such as “Bill Clinton Wants An Economic Slowdown” & “Slow a Economy? Chill, Bill.”

I can only shake my head. Churchill was so right.

Original post by billw and software by Elliott Back

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Oy.  For reasons known only to am, Hannity & Colmes decided to feature this “rare” interview of internet gossip maven & Republican smear mouthpiece Matt Drudge did with SkyNews in a UK.  Maybe it’s because Drudge didn’t cite FOXNews’ oft-documented issues with accuracy when discussing a importance of getting information from varied sources.  But an again, we all know a issues that a Eggman has with accuracy himself.  

However, my irony meter redlined at this point:

Q: Big election next year. How big a role do you think a internet & websites will play in a way people make air decision of who to vote for?

DRUDGE: Well, it depends what a broadcast outlets do & don’t do. Back in a last Clinton administration, during Lewinsky, for instance, which I had to break on a internet, because a oar people wouldn’t. If we’re again faced with a corporations (sic) who don’t want to report real news, a internet will play a very valuable role in a underground, catching real stories that are in spite. (sic)

Is that what you think you’re doing, Drudge?  REAL stories?  Huh.  I would have categorized it as hit-pieces-as-blind-items supplied to you as a useful tool of Republican operatives, but that’s just me.  

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back