Re Chris Cilizza:

If it's stupid, you can find it at the Washington Post. How did the Post ever let Candy Crowley slip through their hands.

Cillizza has drunk a whole pitcher of the Kool-Aid. He has sold his soul.

Don't the same reporters and editors who proclaim Drudge's influence make editorial decisions to follow him when they do? Isn't one of the dirty secrets of the profession that reporters and editors on occasion actually tailor their stories to get Drudge links?

Thank you, Greg, for saying this. Every time Chris Cilizza mentions the influence of Drudge, I just want to scream "You're part of the issue, dope!"

I take the absence of a story on Drudge to mean that Drudge and the wingnuts don't want the story talked about.

Cillizza is a drudge butt-boy....Cilizza dreams of being drudge, because of the so-called drudge influence. These so called journalists like Cilizza are just wannabe star-fargers......Cilizza is a low IQ nerd who is working at a paper that has been as has-been as anyone paper can be as far as their relevance.

How much money and how many eggs would it take to get the Eggman to go away?

I'm good for a bunch of it.

It's more Mark Halperin's "The Page" that has now become the "go-to" for media.

Google "Drudge eggs". Mmmm.

Yet another example of the media obviously and consciously influencing the debate, yet acting as if they report just the facts, ma'am.

I don't think most media types are very bright. But I feel that their refusal to acknowledge how they steer the debate in this country doesn't stem from ignaorance, but either laziness, which they refuse to recognize, or a belief in the conventional wisdom as long as it supports a Republican worldview.

In either case, they are abolutely complicit in the destruction of our country, and I pray that they are called to account at some point.

Remember when Chris Cillizza thought that the 2006 mid-terms meant that we'd see the "pragmatic" George W Bush who was about to, according to Chris, start a phased withdrawal from Iraq?

Thread Jack!

Anyone notice that according to the Daily Kos daily tracking poll McCain's favorable rating is below 50 percent for the first time in the election? And Palin's unfavorable is higher than her favorable? Great news. She's pulling him down.

Pufferfish

Thank you, Greg! I glad someone finally said something about this nonsense. I think you hit the nail on the head with this article, particularly the points about the appropriateness of Drudge's influence.

Drudge's influence is as over-hyped as his number of hits. His site refreshes 4 times more often than other sites without new content.

That's Just What I Said

Pfffft! Cillizza's a hack and The Fix sucks. Ignore 'em, Greg, neither (Cillizza nor Drudge) can touch you. :)

Fuck Drudge, seriously!

Can we just move on?

There's more important things on the world today.

Chris is a tool of Drudgereport. Only lazy journalists pay attention to Drudge. When the whole economic is tanking, drudge only cares about Barbara Streisand. You will think Chris Cilliaza will use his brain before writing nonsense.

Reading all of the posts under The Fix' drudge article, you could tell that all of drudge's readership was out in force. Truant officers everywhere could have easily located all of their missing middle school boys.

Every day spent discussing meaningless non-issues and gossipy nonsense is a good day for the Republicans.

The Republican strategy is to keep the public distracted with silly stories about name-calling, hairdos, and the 'culture wars'.

Is our country going to restore the constitution ? Are we going to start more wars ? Are we going to borrow more money from China ?

I'm sorry - is this boring ?

Yesterday and today, I wrote about this example of Drudge firing up the right wing echo chamber here...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/114318/458/497/600544

... and document the subsequent echoes making their way into the McCain stump speech, and MSM.

Quoting Griffin without providing background on his Rovian connections is an unpardonable journalistic sin.

I can remember this site semi-frequently pointing to Drudge's site, much to my dismay, in the not-so-distant past. I never followed through by checking Drudge's site for myself. It doesn't matter to me if mentions here are favorable or not, and of course it was mostly not. But still, I can clearly remember this site openly struggling with determining the veracity of Drudge scoops. I ask, who cares? Every once in a while the National Enquirer has a true story no one else is covering, but I'm not gonna wade through 10 feet of sewage on a regular basis for that one glimmer of something shiny.

I live my life quite happily, and well-informed, without ever hearing about that site. I'd like to keep it that way. I have no need for the freepers either. The less I am reminded of such filth here, all the better. To even acknowledge that site, or those who go ga-ga over it, is to empower it further.

Can we talk about something else now??

I've been watching drudge lately, and the effect I get from that site is full-blown panic. He's trying DESPERATELY to change the narrative, with Streisand Headlines (a personal favorite of his,) Pelosi attacks, and claims of media bias (a la the Palin media mention counter.) None of it worked.

I do think Drudge has lost some of his edge, and I do think it's the case of the many vs. the one. He still has the ability to make mountains out of molehills (curse the siren) but as far as pushing the editorial desk, I think he burned bright and then out with the primaries.

Wait - Barbara Streisand? Are you kidding?

Where's Marc Maron? His "liberal marching orders from the just faxed in from the Streisand compound" was genius.

Hey Drudge, what's that important liberal icon Rosie O'Donnell doing today? Or better yet, Jane Fonda?

God Goopers are stupid.

I hate redundancy. I also hate when I type the same thing twice.

Bet Drudge and Cilizza both hit their knees at night and thank the stars above that breathing is an automatic response.....keeps Sarah "The Failed Beauty Queen" alive!

the only thing useful about Cillizza's blog is the insight it offers into beltway CW.