But it didn't say it was a skit. How many of the dumbass teabaggers that read Drudge don't know what the initials "SNL" mean? I'd wager quite a few.
I'm not the one who said it was in the entertainment section of drudge.
Gas prices hit new historic high...
Here's another lying headline from today:
You have to read the article to realize it's not really a "historic high", just high for Feb 11th.
The highest ever?
Gasoline reached $4.11 per gallon on July 7, 2008
I don't think the buhlack guy was in office then...
Again, unchanged from the original story:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2...riving-them-up?nav=87-frontpage-entryNineItem
Gas prices hit a national average of $3.59 Monday – the highest ever for a Feb. 11. Several factors will continue to drive up costs, but not to last year's highs, analysts say.
That you, instead of reading the article, go directly into spin mode doesn't change that Drudge didn't write the headline, didn't change it, and it does what it is supposed to do. Nor does it say the "highest ever"... That's just you, altering the headline to try to make it say what you want it to... hypocrite, heal thyself.
So now you're saying Drudge doesn't write the headlines?
I am saying that so far you have failed to show that to be the case. So far you are "O" for two and falling fast.
Howey does have a point, there are people who don't know what SNL is and would, from the headlines think Bieber sent the pic to Hillary Clinton.
Drudge does have a way of headlining things that if you didn't read the article attached you would think it occurred.
What would have been funny, if Hillary said it was ginormous!
Give up, Yurt Sr.
I don't need to prove who writes the headlines on a blog called "THE DRUDGE REPORT"
But it didn't say it was a skit. How many of the dumbass teabaggers that read Drudge don't know what the initials "SNL" mean? I'd wager quite a few.
Nor have I challenged you on that, this is a sad and weak attempt to move the goal posts. All I have said here is that so far you have failed to even provide a tiny portion of evidence to even slightly prove your assertions.
In the latest example of his seemingly unending appetite for publishing misleading, fearmongering headlines, the Drudge Report is currently highlighting a Wall Street Journal article on a new cybersecurity NSA program, under the headline, "NSA Internet Grab; Spy Agency Shifts to Domestic Eavesdropping." The NSA is about to start spying on our emails and internet traffic? Yeah, not so much. The article to which Drudge links actually reports that the NSA program, ominously dubbed "Perfect Citizen," is aimed at protecting computer systems that control our "critical infrastructure," like our electrical grids, nuclear power plants and subway systems. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that the NSA is going to be spying on private citizens' emails and internet traffic, as Drudge is clearly suggesting.
If you head over to the Drudge Report today, you might be left with the false impression that the government is blocking you from accessing websites that espouse "controversial opinions."
Why? Because once again, Drudge is blaring a big, misleading headline at the top of his site -- this time with the help of CBSNews.com.
Drudge is hyping the headline, "BIG SIS BLOCKS WEBSITES WITH 'CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS' " -- clearly suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security is blocking your access to certain websites:
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Ouch
But what’s so remarkable here is how often this happens. Drudge has a habit of peddling not just links to faulty or false stories, but exclusives that are fatally flawed on a level with the MemoGate scandal that ended Dan Rather’s broadcast television career. Yet there seems to be no accountability, or even memory. When Drudge busts out an exclusive, he’s parroted by his guardian angels in the right media with little if any grains of salt.
The classic example of this is the case of Ashley Todd, the McCain campaign volunteer in the Pittsburgh area who Drudge attempted to transform into a white martyr of Candidate Obama’s ways. Weeks before the November 2008 presidential election, Todd told police that she had been mugged by a black man who carved a ‘B’ for Barack Obama into her face. Of course, she made the whole thing up, and had actually carved the ‘B’ into her own face (backwards, one might add). Wonkette famously called her ‘Cut Nut,’ and she entered a probationary program and psychological counseling. Drudge was first on the scene.
Then I had my own case of ghostbusting Drudge. In April 2007, he exclusively reported that Michael Ware, a CNN reporter critical of the Iraq War, had disrupted a press conference given in Baghdad by Senator John McCain. Except I found video which proved he had not, and a colleague from another news outlet who later verified that Ware had failed to even ask a question during the presser. Matt didn’t correct his error. He just yanked the story from his site. Like it had never happened.
More from the Paulites
If you glance over Drudge Report right now, top headline plastered under OBL photo is:
'OUR ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS YOU SUPPORT ISRAEL'
Drudge has omitted a crucial part of that claim in top headline as if Al Qaueda is warning America that they plan to attack America no matter what. Let's get TSA screeners/gloves everywhere in America because there is no other option as they just hate our freedoms and are bent on attacking us.
Isn't Drudge misleading America with this poster headline or just saving space?
Shocking!
In the past few weeks, media critics have postulated that Matt Drudge's influence in setting the media's agenda -- which the Politico's John F. Harris and Time's Mark Halperin argue in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 has been great -- has waned this election cycle. In his continuing efforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports he linked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger Greg Sargent wrote in an October 31 post at Talking Points Memo, "Multiple times this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence is in fact waning, these items, examples of which Media Matters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that it should be.
October 29 -- World Series
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Drudge advanced Sen. John McCain's October 29 suggestion that Sen. Barack Obama was "delay[ing] the World Series" with his purchase of 30 minutes of network airtime on October 29. In fact, as Media Matters documented, The New York Times reported in an October 28 article that "Fox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, had initially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday's game to 8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, such a delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has started before 8:30, and two started after 8:35." Politico's Ben Smith also quoted a Fox broadcasting executive who reportedly "negotiated the ad buy" as saying: "By no means did they [the Obama campaign] push to get us to accommodate them with Game Six [of the World Series]. ... We're just missing the pregame, which isn't a big deal for us. It was a business decision."
October 27 -- Supreme Court "tragedy"
Drudge featured the following false headline: "2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT":
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In fact, as the YouTube audio that Drudge linked to demonstrates, during a 2001 interview on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ, Obama did not say it is a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court has not pursued wealth redistribution. The "tragedy" Obama identified was that the civil rights movement "became so court-focused" in trying to effect political and economic justice. Obama stated: "And one of the -- I think the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change."
Numerous media figures echoed Drudge's false headline about Obama's 2001 remarks.
October 23 -- Pittsburgh "attack"
During the afternoon of October 23, Drudge seized on McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd's allegations that a black man mugged her and, after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car, carved a "B" into her cheek. At 2:54 p.m. ET, Drudge reported Todd's allegations as fact, posting on his website: "SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH," along with another headline reading: " 'B' CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN'S FACE... DEVELOPING..."
Drudge did not initially link to a news report for this claim. From the Drudge Report at 2:54 p.m. ET on October 23:
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Drudge eventually added a link to an online article by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh about the alleged attack. From the Drudge Report on October 23 at 3:28 p.m. ET:
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Double ouch!
What the story omits is how the Drudge Report caters to right-wingers by using misleading headlines skewed toward conservative tastes and selectively pointing readers to news that puts liberals in a bad light, even when those news items are poorly sourced. An opponent of climate change from Podunk College gets higher billing and more sympathetic treatment than a Nobel laureate who supports it.
Talking about how Drudge organizes and packages Web links without noting the intent behind the Drudge Report is like saying that the major importance of talk radio is the increase in radio listeners.
Right wing morons?
News articles that have been blown out of proportion or exaggerated to the extreme as to attract and mislead morons. Carries a large Right wing bias offering a depiction of a world that is crumbling because liberals and the rest of non-america are destroying it.
More later...but for now TEN TOTALLY FAKE STORIES BANNERED BY DRUDGE THIS YEAR!
But Drudge has used this position to continually mislead the public and the media. Tuesday night’s “bombshell” was just one of many recent examples. Here are 10 completely fake banner stories by Drudge in 2012:
1. Obama proposed to “repeat” auto bailout for every industry in America
2. Obama “admits fabricating” his girlfriend in his memoir
3. New evidence that Obama was “born in Kenya”
4. Obama is giving out free phones
5. Condoleezza Rice at the top of Romney’s list for Vice President
6. Sherrif Joe Arpaio has uncovered evidence that Obama’s birth certificate is fake
7. David Petreaus under consideration for Romney’s Vice President
8. Biden proposed a “global tax”
9. Obama had time to meet with a pirate but not Netanyahu
10. Explosive new video of “race speech” will expose Obama
lol...Matty Boi sure don't like that buhlack man, does he?
Nor have I challenged you on that, this is a sad and weak attempt to move the goal posts. All I have said here is that so far you have failed to even provide a tiny portion of evidence to even slightly prove your assertions.
In the latest example of his seemingly unending appetite for publishing misleading, fearmongering headlines, the Drudge Report is currently highlighting a Wall Street Journal article on a new cybersecurity NSA program, under the headline, "NSA Internet Grab; Spy Agency Shifts to Domestic Eavesdropping." The NSA is about to start spying on our emails and internet traffic? Yeah, not so much. The article to which Drudge links actually reports that the NSA program, ominously dubbed "Perfect Citizen," is aimed at protecting computer systems that control our "critical infrastructure," like our electrical grids, nuclear power plants and subway systems. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that the NSA is going to be spying on private citizens' emails and internet traffic, as Drudge is clearly suggesting.
If you head over to the Drudge Report today, you might be left with the false impression that the government is blocking you from accessing websites that espouse "controversial opinions."
Why? Because once again, Drudge is blaring a big, misleading headline at the top of his site -- this time with the help of CBSNews.com.
Drudge is hyping the headline, "BIG SIS BLOCKS WEBSITES WITH 'CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS' " -- clearly suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security is blocking your access to certain websites:
But what’s so remarkable here is how often this happens. Drudge has a habit of peddling not just links to faulty or false stories, but exclusives that are fatally flawed on a level with the MemoGate scandal that ended Dan Rather’s broadcast television career. Yet there seems to be no accountability, or even memory. When Drudge busts out an exclusive, he’s parroted by his guardian angels in the right media with little if any grains of salt.
The classic example of this is the case of Ashley Todd, the McCain campaign volunteer in the Pittsburgh area who Drudge attempted to transform into a white martyr of Candidate Obama’s ways. Weeks before the November 2008 presidential election, Todd told police that she had been mugged by a black man who carved a ‘B’ for Barack Obama into her face. Of course, she made the whole thing up, and had actually carved the ‘B’ into her own face (backwards, one might add). Wonkette famously called her ‘Cut Nut,’ and she entered a probationary program and psychological counseling. Drudge was first on the scene.
Then I had my own case of ghostbusting Drudge. In April 2007, he exclusively reported that Michael Ware, a CNN reporter critical of the Iraq War, had disrupted a press conference given in Baghdad by Senator John McCain. Except I found video which proved he had not, and a colleague from another news outlet who later verified that Ware had failed to even ask a question during the presser. Matt didn’t correct his error. He just yanked the story from his site. Like it had never happened.
If you glance over Drudge Report right now, top headline plastered under OBL photo is:
'OUR ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS YOU SUPPORT ISRAEL'
Drudge has omitted a crucial part of that claim in top headline as if Al Qaueda is warning America that they plan to attack America no matter what. Let's get TSA screeners/gloves everywhere in America because there is no other option as they just hate our freedoms and are bent on attacking us.
Isn't Drudge misleading America with this poster headline or just saving space?
In the past few weeks, media critics have postulated that Matt Drudge's influence in setting the media's agenda -- which the Politico's John F. Harris and Time's Mark Halperin argue in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 has been great -- has waned this election cycle. In his continuing efforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports he linked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger Greg Sargent wrote in an October 31 post at Talking Points Memo, "Multiple times this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence is in fact waning, these items, examples of which Media Matters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that it should be.
October 29 -- World Series
drudge 001
Drudge advanced Sen. John McCain's October 29 suggestion that Sen. Barack Obama was "delay[ing] the World Series" with his purchase of 30 minutes of network airtime on October 29. In fact, as Media Matters documented, The New York Times reported in an October 28 article that "Fox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, had initially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday's game to 8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, such a delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has started before 8:30, and two started after 8:35." Politico's Ben Smith also quoted a Fox broadcasting executive who reportedly "negotiated the ad buy" as saying: "By no means did they [the Obama campaign] push to get us to accommodate them with Game Six [of the World Series]. ... We're just missing the pregame, which isn't a big deal for us. It was a business decision."
October 27 -- Supreme Court "tragedy"
Drudge featured the following false headline: "2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT":
drudge 002
In fact, as the YouTube audio that Drudge linked to demonstrates, during a 2001 interview on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ, Obama did not say it is a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court has not pursued wealth redistribution. The "tragedy" Obama identified was that the civil rights movement "became so court-focused" in trying to effect political and economic justice. Obama stated: "And one of the -- I think the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change."
Numerous media figures echoed Drudge's false headline about Obama's 2001 remarks.
October 23 -- Pittsburgh "attack"
During the afternoon of October 23, Drudge seized on McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd's allegations that a black man mugged her and, after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car, carved a "B" into her cheek. At 2:54 p.m. ET, Drudge reported Todd's allegations as fact, posting on his website: "SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH," along with another headline reading: " 'B' CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN'S FACE... DEVELOPING..."
Drudge did not initially link to a news report for this claim. From the Drudge Report at 2:54 p.m. ET on October 23:
drudge 003
Drudge eventually added a link to an online article by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh about the alleged attack. From the Drudge Report on October 23 at 3:28 p.m. ET:
drudge 004
What the story omits is how the Drudge Report caters to right-wingers by using misleading headlines skewed toward conservative tastes and selectively pointing readers to news that puts liberals in a bad light, even when those news items are poorly sourced. An opponent of climate change from Podunk College gets higher billing and more sympathetic treatment than a Nobel laureate who supports it.
Talking about how Drudge organizes and packages Web links without noting the intent behind the Drudge Report is like saying that the major importance of talk radio is the increase in radio listeners.
News articles that have been blown out of proportion or exaggerated to the extreme as to attract and mislead morons. Carries a large Right wing bias offering a depiction of a world that is crumbling because liberals and the rest of non-america are destroying it.
Just doubling down on failure Howey. Vegas was built on gamblers like you. And then you go to Media Matters? Is it to see if you are the only one not to know what SNL is?
Sez the guy defending Drudge.
Funny thing I Yurtroll's always defending him. Now we know why. They're both smarmy pathological liars.