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Friday, October 31, 2008

The Drudge Retort

posted by on October 31 at 11:47 AM

The Drudge Report is kicking up a scandal at the top of its page right now about three “skeptical” newspaper reporters who were booted from Obama’s campaign plane. The reason, Drudge suggests, is that “all three [newpapers] endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!”

One of those newspapers, The Dallas Morning News—which should be up in arms about the injustice, right, Drudge?—responds:

[W]e don’t have evidence that the newspaper’s endorsement of Sen. McCain had any bearing on the campaign’s decision to boot us from the plane. … We think the Obama campaign’s decision is to some degree more a function of limited seats, and while we’re a large regional newspaper, we’re not national and we’re not in a swing state. We’ve been on the road with them at key moments, but we’ve not been along for the entire ride, like, say, The New York Times and The Associated Press.

For what it’s worth, we’ve had the same trouble with the McCain campaign.

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Drudge is a disgusting yellow journalist who should be abhorred by all. Sometimes I imagine myself and a gang of others screaming in his face as he wets himself ---"WHAT ARE YOU DOINGGGGGG! YOU'RE RUINING THE WORLD FOR YOUR OWN GAIN? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE? YOU ARE A HITLER OF JOURNALISM!! A FUCKING PSYCHO OF REASON!!!! YOU GO AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT AMERICA STANDS FOR. HOW.DARE.YOU.PROFIT.FROM.WHILE.PUSHING.AND.FURTHERING.OUR.OWN.DEMISE.YOU.MISERABLE.CLOSETED.PIECE.OF.SHIT?!?!?!

It's as if some see our Democracy as only alive in their lifetime. Completely myopic. No sense of future. No sense of sustainably. No sense of DUTY to the tenets that journalism entails.

There are not enough words to express how incongruent this man's power is with the progress of this nation. It makes me use my caps lock like woah.

I would cry TREASON!! if crying treason wasn't such a fucking Drudge thing to do.

Oh my gosh, I have to stop.

Posted by Non | October 31, 2008 12:13 PM
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I understand, Non. Just take a deep breath and let it out slowly over the next 4 days. You can make it!!

Posted by takeabreather | October 31, 2008 12:19 PM
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Did anyone get called "Boy"?

Posted by Peep Durple | October 31, 2008 12:45 PM
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And the Rossi campaign.

Posted by K | October 31, 2008 12:47 PM
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If you've seen the most recent results of the Dallas Morning New's efforts to downsize itself out of existence, you'll understand that their generous response to being booted off the Obama plane is covering up a secret sigh of relief over not having to pony up the costs of keeping that particular reporter out in the field.

Posted by SK | October 31, 2008 1:52 PM
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You DO understand, don't you, that the Drudge Retort is a satire of the Drudge Report published by Rogers Cadenhead?

Kind of an Onion-y thing.

Posted by Not Drudge | October 31, 2008 4:05 PM

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