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Clinton and Drudge...Sitting in a Tree

by BooMan
Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 02:11:33 AM EST

I think it is great that the Clinton campaign decided to give Matt Drudge the scoop on her third quarter fundraising numbers. It shows who she is. Oh...look at the savvy:

That people in Mrs. Clinton’s campaign orbit would tip off the Drudge Report to its fund-raising numbers is in part a reflection of her pragmatic approach to dealing with potential enemies, like Newt Gingrich or Rupert Murdoch. But it also speaks to the enduring power of the Drudge Report, which mixes original reporting with links to newspaper, Internet or television reports far and wide.

The site is a potent combination of real scoops, gossip and innuendo aimed at Mr. Drudge’s targets of choice — some of it delivered with no apparent effort to determine its truth, as politicians of all stripes have discovered at times.

Aides in both parties acknowledge working harder than ever to get favorable coverage for their candidates — or unfavorable coverage of competitors — onto the Drudge Report’s home page, knowing that television producers, radio talk show hosts and newspaper reporters view it as a bulletin board for the latest news and gossip.

I have visited Drudge maybe two times since the '04 election. That's maybe one/ten-thousandth the times I have visited Eschaton and Daily Kos. But, for the Clinton campaign, Drudge is still where it's at. The same Drudge that scooped Isikoff and posted on the Lewinsky scandal. That's the site that get's the big story from the Clinton campaign.

Anyone that votes for her is truly a masochist.

And, you know, it's not like Peter Daou doesn't try. He's given up on me after I repeatedly refused to 'call him right away'. I have nothing against Peter but I don't march to anyone's tune. I know other bloggers return his calls...but apparently not enough that they think it is worth their time to give a scoop to a Democratic or progressive source.

They're still living in 1998. I hope some miracle destroys her campaign before she can win the nomination.



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Exactly my feeling about her and her campaign bunch, too. Is it true that so many people look at/ depend on Drudge. Strange, he offers nothing. I guess he's a bit like that Lucienne lady.
by Quentin on Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 06:55:40 AM EST
Clinton has no business being the Democratic nominee.  It is bad enough that one of her chief advisors is a DLC supporter and a union buster whose company also works for both the oil and nuclear power industries, but now we learn that his company prepped Erik Prince for his testimony to Congress about Blackwater.

She keeps some really bad company.


If you want things to get better, be prepared to deal with change.

by Kahli on Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 08:46:12 AM EST
And that's the point.  She keeps terrible company.  Awful.
by BooMan on Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 11:26:09 AM EST
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I couldn't agree more.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-
by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 09:06:57 AM EST
'Pragmatic'?...Well I guess that's just a very generous way of saying she's sold her soul to the devil-has she been in Georgia lately?

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 at 06:00:42 PM EST


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