Damn Clintonesque, if you ask me … Well done.

Hillary is stupid if she thinks Drudge doesn’t hate her guts.

Anyone who thinks money and advertising is the key to winning a popular election is also retarded. (See Howard Dean).

And, most cynically, even if for some convoluted reason Drudge wanted Hillary to win the nomination, how do you clowns know that it’s not some grand Karl Rovian strategy to set up the unelectable, contemptible cuckold for a Republican landslide?

- The number of Americans who say they worry at least “somewhat” about a terrorist attack has increased seven points in six months.
- More than eight in 10 people give the government a grade of C or worse on controlling immigration – a finding that has increased nine points since 2005
- Nearly six in 10 say we have a moral obligation to the Iraqi people, while only one-third say the United States should act in its own interest without regard to how it affects the Iraqis
- When asked if U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to control the violence even if it means more American casualties or withdraw even if it means more Iraqi casualties, 55 percent said the United States should still withdraw

Of course, these are only a few of the issues mentioned in Public Agenda’s new report. Check it out at http://www.publicagenda.org/foreignpolicy/index.cfm. Feel free to get back to me with any questions or comments!

That is worse than the worst of which Drudge is accused. Some evidence, please: who’s being paid? who’s spreading the rumors, for that matter? on what basis?

Eric, that looks like a great Freudian slip to me.

her pragmatic approach to dealing with potential enemies

"Potential enemies" seems to ring true. Among other things Hillary's Secret War chronicles former Clinton White House aide Sidney Blumenthal’s $30 million lawsuit against the DRUDGE REPORT. Poe's book also tells Matt Drudge’s interesting back story.

As Drudge tells it, his obsession with news dates from childhood. As a paperboy for the Washington Star in Tacoma Park, Maryland, Drudge used to run late every day with his deliveries, because he would pull his cart over to the nearest park bench and read the paper from beginning to end. "On the bench, 1 would play editor," he later wrote. "I noticed how their lead story was not really the lead story. How the hottest news was buried on the inside pages and the best reporting was riding at the end of the copy when it should have been at the beginning. I'd rewrite my own headlines for an audience of one."

The only child of divorced parents, Drudge withdrew into a private world where the background hum of electronic media often substituted for human company. "Talk radio tucked me in at night and the police scanner was my unconditional best friend," he recalls. "We remain pals to this day."

Drudge remembers walking the streets of Washington DC as a teenager. His feet often took him to the Washington Post building at 15th Street. "I'd look longingly, knowing I'd never get in," writes Drudge. "Didn't attend the right schools…. My father was not the son of a famous drunken Southern senator, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty."

Instead, Drudge took a job as a store clerk at a local 7-Eleven right out of high school. "Every morning at about 2 o'clock the bulldog editions of all the major papers would be dropped off right at my doorstep. I couldn't wait to get my hands on them. While the rest of the city slept, I'd read fresh headlines and bylines-first, before anyone else. The predawn customers would get an earful. I was never sure I cared about being first, but boy did I feel connected when I was."

In 1988; at age twenty-one, Drudge moved to Los Angeles. He became manager of the CBS Studios gift shop - a job he would hold for the next seven years. A natural newsman without a newspaper, Drudge resorted to compulsive snooping. He eavesdropped in the executive suites and hung around the newsroom. Then he discovered the trash bins in the copy room on the ground floor at Television City, filled each morning with overnight Nielsen ratings, box office returns, and memos on their way to the shredder. Suddenly, Drudge had access to real news. But how would he release it?

Right around that time, Drudge's father, worried that his son was on a career track to nowhere, bought him a 486 Packard Bell computer. "I found a way to post items on Internet newsgroups, things I had gleaned direct from the soundstages, the halls and the stalls," recalls Drudge. "I collected a few e-mail addresses. I set up a list." The Drudge Report launched officially in the winter of 1994. Says Drudge, "One reader turned into five. Five into a hundred … a thousand, five thousand, a hundred thousand."

And to answer the question you asked me last time, I’d have a difficult time supporting Hilary (maybe in the general election I’d find a way to hold my nose). And I’m probably leaning toward Obama at this point. OTOH, I haven’t really made a decision yet and probably won’t for awhile.

Of course, I’m not blogging about this stuff, so where I might stand seems a little less important.

I should say that in 2000 I raced home to vote for Dollar Bill Bradley in the California primary even though I knew Gore was sweeping the country. Didn’t even have to hold my nose to vote for Al in the general.

The demographic winter is here.

Aging workforce in the US.
geocities(dot)com/demographic_crash

Website with good information on the subject.
Welcome.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Solange Miller

Anyway, the point of the article isn’t that Drudge is the devil, but that he’s a Republican who has previously promoted stories which are negative to the Clintons.

It’s a good article.

Getting a lot of traffic, maybe because the Union Tribune servers have not been working half of the day. They switched their blog over to Google’s blogger.com to handle the load.