Drudge's "Prank Gone Awry" Story Labeled "Fiction" By Page's Lawyer

[JABBS]

Click here to read the whole article.

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Should we be surprised that Drudge would post falsehoods?

Don't forget, while most conservative pundits were dredging up lurid tales of Democrats from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, it was Drudge who decided to blame the victims:

DRUDGE: You‘re not going to tell me these are innocent babies. The kids are egging the congressman on.

Just another conservative myth from the fantasyland known as Drudge Report.

[DBoon]

1. Does Drudge speak from experience here?

otherwise he has no basis for that remark.

[hsher]

26. yes

Google "Matt Drudge" and "gay", and see what you find there. It's no accident people like this were called trolls long before the internet got here. Troll! A word with all the right meanings!

[tridim]

2. Is this an opportunity to take Drudge down?

Everyone has a right to free speech, but nobody has a right to make up the news and call it free speech.

[JABBS]

5. agreed

of course, drudge is a reporter like jeff gannon was a reporter. no media training -- just conservative ideology. they might as well be writing advertorials.

[dkofos]

11. Tell that to faux news

[JABBS]

13. touche

:)

[hsher]

25. Agreed too

But I had someone do a Drudge smear on me and call it free speech about a decade ago. You'd be surprised what we, the people, will allow disturbed, self-loathing folks to do online to other people and their reputations, simply because they want to.

Personally I have a good feeling about this. Somehow I think having dipped his toe into this one is going to cost Matt Drudge. Industrious bloggers with inside information may just tip the outhouse bucket of Drudge's own closeted gay lifestyle out into the public view, and we'll be at last done with his BOLD!!!ITALICS!!!ALERT!!!tinfoil hat ravings. This was his final step into quicksand, and I have a feeling this time it will suck him under.

Good riddance to him.


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[Atman]

3. This will only boost Drudge's career. A democrat would have to resign.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

[joefree1]

4. Another Pudge fantasy for repukes fades away

I say let him die by a thousand cuts. His web site has become a joke. Ignore him.

[JABBS]

8. can't ignore him

he influences too many people. same way you can't ignore what rush, sean, ann coulter, etc., say. you have to prepare yourself for their lies; arm yourself with the truth, and hope the voters know the difference.

[Irreverend IX]

18. Who the hell would be influenced...

By that ugly POS site? Drudge Report looks bad by 1995 web design standards. I guess I could take Drudge seriously if I was an inbred alcoholic bigot who'd never traveled 10 miles from his trailer park... and that's probably just what his supporters are.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Isn't It Ironic That The Poster Boy

Isn't it ironic that the poster boy for conservative blogging is an unconvincing closeted gay person.

I can't imagine what demons possess someone like that. Perhaps he was inseminated by the ghost of Roy Cohn.

What slime.

[Spazito]

7. Drudge was just "catapulting" Limbaugh's "pondering"

Drudge can't even be original in his lying crap, no surprise though. Pathetic doesn't come close to describing him and Viagra man.

[JABBS]

12. do you think the "friends" of edmund

that Drudge refers to actually exist? Or do you think he just called up the Stuckey's in Edmund's hometown and asked if anyone thought it was a prank, and two yahoos said "Sure"?

[Spazito]

16. LOL, well, seeing as they have a habit of pulling things out of their

asses in terms of lies, I suspect the unnamed "friends" are from the same ass they pulled the other lies from.

[npincus]

9. see thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2331957&mesg_id=2331957

[npincus]

10. when will someone sue Drudge's ass for libel?

[DURHAM D]

14. Very interesting - thanks for posting. BTW - I noticed that

that the attorney retained by the Oklahoma page is Stephen Jones.

Jones was Tim McVeigh's attorney. Jones is the guy who during an interview said that Tim should not have been put down because more people were involved in the OKC bombing and we could never get to the bottom of the matter with Tim dead.

Also, Brownie worked in the Jones law firm (for a little while) in Oklahoma and in a post Katrina interview Jones basically indicated that he thought Brownie was completely inappropriate to be the FEMA director. Read that - he was stupid and we fired him.

Small world.

[mtnester]

15. IMO, Matt Drudge is a self loathing loner

and is being used by the Repubs...psycologically, they welcomed an outsider in, fed him tidbits and sweets, make him feel like part of the "gang" and rely on him to dutifully put out their talking points or spin. He is now their DOG. Too bad he does not see that yet, and maybe never will.

Mark my words, Matt Drudge does not sit around writing this stuff...he is briefed and material is sent to him....straight from "some" Republicans.

Nothing worse than a self-loathing hater....and someone who speaks pretty loud about something that maybe hits a little too close to home.

[hsher]

24. The backstory on Drudge

Google Matt Drudge, and "gay".
There's an entire backstory.

I'm just disappointed the U.S. press, on a week when Bush signed a Bill of Rights-slaughtering and civil rights-destroying "enemy combatant" bill into law, has been completely hijacked by glory hole culture and its backstabbing, blackmailing, bitchy gossip. Sad indeed.

[Missy M]

17. When it was Monica they were talking about she was a.....

sweet, innocent, dewy eyed, barely out of puberty 22 year old. No matter she was flashing her thong at the President, all innocent girls do that!! Now when it is them the pages are not innocent babies, they were scheming and egging on the poor upstanding Foley to do what he did. The repub White House spin machine is now going to ridiculous extremes and the public is no longer buying it.

[JABBS]

19. don't forget

last week, Hannity assured people Monica was 19.

And of course, 19 is sort of like 16, except for that pesky "legal adult at 18" thing.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I heard that too...

I was screaming at my television.

She was 21 when they began their affair.

[blitzen]

21. isn't that lawyer the Stephen Jones of Oklahoma City bombing fame?

court-appointed defense attorney for McVeigh

[JABBS]

22. yes

[DURHAM D]

23. See my post 14 above. Stephen is everywhere.

Actually, I met him (worked with him) back in the late 60s.

He also ran for Congress(R) way back when.