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  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585

    Strange Bedfellows

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 — As Senator Barack Obama prepared to give a major speech on Iraq one morning a few weeks ago, a flashing red-siren alert went up on the Drudge Report Web site. It read, “Queen of the Quarter: Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund-Raising Surge,” and, “$27 Million, Sources Tell Drudge Report.”

    Within minutes, the Drudge site had injected Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fund-raising success into the day’s political news on the Internet and cable television. It did not halt coverage of Mr. Obama’s speech or his criticism of her vote to authorize the war in 2002, but along the front lines of the campaign — the hourly, intensely fought effort to capture the news cycle or deny ownership of it to the other side — it was a telling assault.

    Mrs. Clinton’s aides declined to discuss how the Drudge Report got access to her latest fund-raising figures nearly 20 minutes before the official announcement went to supporters. But it was a prime example of a development that has surprised much of the political world: Mrs. Clinton is learning to play nice with the Drudge Report and the powerful, elusive and conservative-leaning man behind it.

    That man, Matt Drudge, came to national prominence a decade ago as a nemesis of the Clintons who used the Web to peddle, gleefully, the latest news and rumor generated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal.


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  • 88Mariner
    My dick is smaller
    • Nov 2006
    • 7128

    #2
    Re: Strange Bedfellows

    what if it was a day in which Obama was speaking about immigration, or tax increases, or environmental policy? consider this in light of the fact that Drudge is a libertarian, and that his money comes from popping news before anyone else gets it!

    curiously the quote at the bottom, about how he 'needs' Clinton.

    perhaps it's a bottom line issue? cryptically, perhaps more...
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    • toasty
      Sir Toastiness
      • Jun 2004
      • 6585

      #3
      Re: Strange Bedfellows

      I just think it's interesting to think that Drudge, who rose to notoriety on the backs of the Clintons, would be doing anything to benefit them.

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