Reply #20: Where is the Insane Clown Posse?

[Zorbuddha]

Answer me that.

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In the past week, the tone of Matt Drudge’s dispatches (DrudgeReport.com) has been feverish and desperate. During the first week of June, the Drudge Report was filled with crackling denunciations of a book called "The Insane Clown Posse," not yet published. Drudge is claiming that it unfairly attacks the personal lives of the Clinton-haters (particularly Kenneth Starr and his merry pranksters) who have worked so tenaciously to bring down the President. Drudge was frantically trying to keep the expose from going to press, and launched a scorched earth attack on TALK/MIRAMAX, the erstwhile publishers of the yet unedited book. By Friday, June 9, it appeared that Drudge’s efforts at editorial intimidation succeeded. TALK/MIRAMAX will not publish the book, according to Tina Brown, chairman of Talk Media, Inc., in an announcement issued by the firm.

Matt Drudge fashions himself the cyber Walter Winchell, but his prototype is really a right wing town crier, delivering the news in blaring tabloid headlines about politics, entertainment and freak stories. He posts a steady diet of salacious tidbits about the Clintons and other Democrats fed to him by a well-organized right wing consortium of lawyers(working through "foundations"), opposition research professionals, the right wing press, and the conservatives on Capitol Hill. He is a hero to the remaining members of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 class of junkyard-dog-"Contract with America"- congressmen and their staffs. Together with conservative lawyers filing cases against Clinton, they form an ongoing pipeline that feeds Drudge a steady supply of sludge aimed at personally attacking the Democrats, particularly the Clintons and Janet Reno. His efforts reached their highpoint when he printed the lascivious details of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, giving the sexual details enough credibility for the mainstream press to accept them as fact.

Yes, Drudge does post "inside" political strategy and policy leaks attacking the Democrats. But the heart of Drudge’s appeal to the right wingers is his unrelenting personal assault on the Clintons.


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