Matt Grudge
October 14th, 2020Link Machine Blows with Unseen Wind
Am I the only one who is extremely disappointed in Matt Drudge?
Drudge and President Trump are enemies now, and no one seems to know why. Drudge has a reputation for leaning pretty far to the right, and it is said he was highly disturbed by the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency in 2016, but for some reason, his site has turned into a news hub for people with Trump Derangement Syndrome. I’ve visited a few times lately, but I felt like I was looking at Yahoo News or The Daily Kos, so I quit. The page was full of links to innuendo-filled stories, gossip, and polls that looked bad for Trump. Leftists continue to provide abundant material for right-leaning aggregators, but Drudge doesn’t seem interested in relaying it now.
I used to visit Drudge every day, because he was one of the few promulgaters of legitimate, important news stories that were damaging to the left. They say he broke the Lewinsky scandal. I quit visiting for a few years, so I was pretty startled when I returned a few months back. What happened to him?
What I have been told is that Andrew Breitbart ran the site back when I began reading it. I know a lot of people adore Breitbart, but I thought he was an unprincipled toad, based on things I heard from a source that had inside information. My opinion of him did not change when he died. This is the guy who became Drudge’s lickspittle in order to launch his own site, yet who had no qualms about helping start Huffto for a known hack and turncoat.
Was he a real conservative? I doubt it. I think he was just pro-Breitbart, bought and sold like a bag of fertilizer.
Anyway, Breitbart ran Drudge’s site back when it provided useful information. I don’t know who’s running it now. Maybe Drudge is doing the arduous 15 hours of websurfing and linking per week himself. In any case, the site is pretty clearly dedicated to putting Kamala Harris in the Oval Office. If it’s out of principle, well and good, but it sort of looks like Drudge is throwing America under the bus out of pettiness.
Is he being blackmailed? Homosexuality rumors have been in the wind for years. Is there a video in a hard drive somewhere? I would think more highly of him if I knew coercion were behind his new policies.
It reminds me of what Jesus said about hirelings. They can’t be trusted. If your allies aren’t allies at heart, they’re not really allies.
I hope to see Drudge severely disappointed after the election, along with the pagans, perverts, racists, domestic terrorists, fake journalists, and treacherous RINO’s who curse Trump, lie about him and his supporters, and gloat in advance. They don’t just go after the president and his supporters. Many of them mock God himself. They conflate Trump voters with Christians, not without reason. They think Christians are superstitious, illiterate, racist incest enthusiasts, and they look forward to seeing our hearts broken by a nonexistent God who doesn’t come through.
It won’t ruin my life if we elect a senile president credibly accused of rape, and I will survive if his obnoxious, terrorist-coddling vice president takes over and manages to nullify our First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment protections. God, not Donald Trump, is the real source of my safety and dominance. But I don’t want to see God lie back and wait, giving brats and losers who hate him the appearance of victory over him.
We know what Drudge is now, so that’s a blessing.
I wonder what will happen to him after the election. Surely, he has driven conservatives away. Will he be able to hold onto anti-Trumpers in the absence of the cause that drew them to him?
If his new friends turned out to be fickle and abandoned him, it would be poetic justice.
October 14th, 2020 at 5:25 PM
I thought Drudge was pretty much openly gay. Anyway, you might have heard of Revolver:
https://www.revolver.news/
Also there’s Gab Trends:
https://trends.gab.com/
I think the Fox News contributor Dan Bongino is doing an aggregator site, but I don’t know the name of it.
October 14th, 2020 at 5:44 PM
bonginoreport.com
Citizenfreepress.com
Whatfinger.com
Knewz.com
donsurber.blogspot.com. At 7AM eastern
October 16th, 2020 at 2:13 AM
I thought I remember hearing that Matt doesn’t even run the site anymore, and handed it off to someone who turned out to be a NeverTrumper or a full-blown leftist, but I could be mistaken.
To be honest, I haven’t visited Drudge Report in years, probably since 2009 or 2010. Like a lot of Web 1.0 giants, it’s been coasting on its reputation for several years and is a shadow of what it used to be. Its business model became obsolete once social media took over as the primary vector of news-sharing, rather than aggregators like Drudge or high-traffic bloggers like Instapundit.