Drudge's Bold Red Headlines

By Joe Campbell
October 23rd, 2008

Drudge has outdone himself today with two unusually misleading headlines.

First, the blaring red super-sized font that announced that a McCain volunteer has been ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH - which quickly became a small side story when the actual facts came out - that a woman with a McCain sticker on her car had been mugged outside an ATM. Awful - but not the political violence initially suggested.

Now, he's put up a link to what he calls the "Most Accurate Pollster in 2004 Election" which puts the race within 1.1 points. Of course, a perusal of the breakdown shows that the poll has McCain beating Obama in the 18-24 year old age group by 74% to 22%. To repeat, McCain is - according to this poll - winning 74% of 18-24 year old; Obama is winning only 22%.

C'mon Drudge, old boy - you can do better than that.

To think - it was just a few months ago that Drudge had seemed to have shifted his support to Obama. It was subtle but there - just like his animus towards McCain. But then - roughly as the Paris ads went up, Drudge began his not-so-subtle attempts to throw the election to McCain.

I don't know what happened - but it does make Drudge seem like he's losing his touch.

Comments

merge divide · 2008-10-23

Call me a cynic… but if I’m going to rob a woman at knife-point in front of an ATM on the busiest street in Bloomfield (which happens to be the almost-entirely-white Little Italy section of town), I’m not going to stick around afterwards to see what bumper stickers she has on her car, and then double-back to carefully scratch (it was certainly not “carved” as some would have it) a very neat backwards (or upside-down) “B” into her cheek (therefore making a political statement), and tell her I’m “teaching her a lesson”. Especially if I know that Sean Hannity just happens to be in town the next day. I guess it’s within the realm of possibility…

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