Wrong to out Drudge ?

[otago]

Amusing how this magazine article is whining that it is wrong for bloggers to go on about Drudge's sexual preferences.
Yet Drudge was more than happy to report that Prince Harry was in the Helmland province using the excuse that it was the public's right to know where a military bloke was stationed and that it overrode operational security.
Well payback is <unpleasant> is it not, Drudge should be happy that it is bloggers going on about what sexual partners he prefers and not a group of Gurkhas wanting him to be fifty P a slice in Sainsburys.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/04/22/leave-matt-drudge-alone

 

[amadeus]

You guys are the ones that want to stay out of people's private lives, right?

otago, you're a tool ... of the radical far-left.

 

[aronnax]

Oh god I already hate this Matt Drudge. And all I did was read his wiki page. Not only is "newspaper" somesort of lapdog to conservatism, it doesn't even try to hide it by propagating this nobody as someone whose dick-wad of a site is apparently "more important to a reporter's reputation nowadays than getting a Pulitzer Prize."

Man, this person pushes my douche bells beyond any level.

Why does the world need another News-Active Blogger who earns money by spouting complete BS who is offered a contract from Fox?

GOD!

 

[amadeus]

Oh god I already hate this Matt Drudge. And all I did was read his wiki page.

I don't think this declaration of ignorance is going to aid you in discouraging people from visiting his site... it sounds like you didn't even visit his page.

Not only is "newspaper" somesort of lapdog to conservatism, it doesn't even try to hide it by propagating this nobody as someone whose dick-wad of a site is apparently "more important to a reporter's reputation nowadays than getting a Pulitzer Prize."

Drudge has been well-known in the U.S. for over a decade; his site broke the story of the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Newsweek killed it.

Why does the world need another News-Active Blogger who earns money by spouting complete BS who is offered a contract from Fox?

GOD!

Drudge had a short-lived series on the FOX News Channel in the late 1990s which was cancelled after Drudge left, saying the network wouldn't allow him to show some picture of a fetus that was being operated on.

 

[aronnax]

I don't think this declaration of ignorance is going to aid you in discouraging people from visiting his site... it sounds like you didn't even visit his page.

I'll admit I was a bit too hasty to judge him. But I do not see the point of his existence. He just links a bunch of sites. I can hardly give people credit for compiling HTML codes. Plus, there seems to be good reason to distrust some of "his" stories as some of them are just conservative half-ass truths or complete crap. He apparently posted a video regarding Clinton's love child? Right. Just more sensationalist media with a republican twist.

Drudge has been well-known in the U.S. for over a decade; his site broke the story of the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Newsweek killed it.

Oh my, he hit one ball and missed a dozen more. And I hardly care for scandals anyway. Unless they are funny.

Drudge had a short-lived series on the FOX News Channel in the late 1990s which was cancelled after Drudge left, saying the network wouldn't allow him to show some picture of a fetus that was being operated on.

I'm just saying, they gave a man a tv show because he had a modem.

 

[otago]

You guys are the ones that want to stay out of people's private lives, right?

otago, you're a tool ... of the radical far-left.

Not possible dear boy, ex military and a businessman, that makes me a hero of the conservatives does it not ?

 

[MobBoss]

Not possible dear boy, ex military and a businessman, that makes me a hero of the conservatives does it not ?

Uhm. Nope. We upped the requirements for that if you hadnt heard.

 

[Ecofarm]

drudgereport.com is an excellent news site. It's slanted in its choice of articles (and titles and photos), but it has a huge index of articles as well as links to every major news source and every major columnist. Also a simple little search function.

I've never seen an article "by Drudge", but I heard he has a radio show.

It's my homepage. When I open explorer, I get every major story of the past couple days on one page with no stupid graphics.

 

[sonorakitch]

^
Me too. Drudge provides a great snapshot of current events in a platform not littered with pop-ups and blinking ads. He occasionally breaks stories himself (sometimes wrong) and typically links to both spectrums of media.

And really, his news might be presented in a more right leaning fashion, as he chooses articles that often times galvanize the right, but what news authority doesn't select articles based off some ideology? None that I know of.

~Chris

 

[emzie]

Drudge is also my homepage. He's annoyed me of late.

 

[North King]

More than once I've seen him post rumors which turned out to be completely unsubstantiated and blatantly false -- all of them, in what is I'm sure just a perfectly silly coincidence, defamatory towards some left-wing politician.

 

[otago]

Uhm. Nope. We upped the requirements for that if you hadnt heard.

As the old joke goes, any conservative party that would have me would have to be that desperate I would not want to join

 

[FriendlyFire]

You guys are the ones that want to stay out of people's private lives, right?

So its ok for Drudge expose Clintons private life but not for hes own private life to be exposed ?

 

[bhsup]

So its ok for Drudge expose Clintons private life but not for hes own private life to be exposed ?

Clinton was our President, Drudge is just an internet poster. Kind of a big difference there.

 

[ArneHD]

Clinton was our President, Drudge is just an internet poster. Kind of a big difference there.

They are still both people and citizens of the state, and unless there was something in Clintons private life that somehow affected his presidency, I don't really see the difference.

 

[IglooDame]

They are still both people and citizens of the state, and unless there was something in Clintons private life that somehow affected his presidency, I don't really see the difference.

What Clinton did in the Oval Office did in fact affect his presidency.

Wait, are we wrong to "out" Tiger Woods, too? I need to know what well-known people have private lives we need to care about and which ones don't.

 

[bhsup]

They are still both people and citizens of the state, and unless there was something in Clintons private life that somehow affected his presidency, I don't really see the difference.

IF he's the leader of our country, I'm interested. I want people of high moral standing to be in that office, not some bumpkin getting his jollies with an intern (which probably would have gotten most private industry CEOs fired if it came to light). Same reason I refused to vote for McCain and wrote in Romney. No adulterers in the oval office, please.

Drudge, on the other hand, is not a public official, much less leader of the free world (does that phrase piss off non-Americans??). Not sure why his private life is anyone's business.

 

[civ_king]

did he break the news about Gingrich having an affair while persecuting Clinton for having an affair? I thought that was an awesome example of hypocrisy

 

[IglooDame]

did he break the news about Gingrich having an affair while persecuting Clinton for having an affair? I thought that was an awesome example of hypocrisy

"persecuting"?

Did anyone break the news about Gingrich having an affair? Was it actually known (by Drudge or anyone else)? I wish someone had, it might have partially separated the "I will do anything to take Clinton down" folks from the "I think the Commander-in-Chief has just violated the UCMJ" folks back then.

 

[Riffraff]

(does that phrase piss off non-Americans??).

It's inaccurate and gives insight into american self-confidence, but not much more I'd say..