Nice op-ed on Ahnold from Will

Actually Jason I don’t, and that’s not being evasive or doubting it happened, I just don’t remember that. Has there been a rash of these in the last few years? Like I said, I don’t have any strong feelings about drudge, I look at it once in a while because he does link to all manner of stories without apparent concern for whose ox they gore (looking yesterday he was giving heads up on a breaking story about the Red Cross calling conditions in Guantanamo intolerable, hardly something that the Bush folks fed him - and I see the story did break this morning in the NY Times.) Plus he has an incredible set of links on his page to just about every major paper and column in the world, which is my major use for the page. I imagine that he does indeed report “inside” tips he gets in an attempt to get hits and publicity. I just wish people would get as inflamed when ANYONE does this, including newspapers, and not just when it comes down on the “wrong” side of their political beliefs.

Here’s the “black baby” stuff:

http://www.anusha.com/negroson.htm
http://www.anusha.com/star-cov.htm

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={CF89BD0B-4E3B-4D98-9077-85A4D80F55E0}

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={010A5EB2-AB74-4463-BA0A-2A8A6E6BD100}

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={8C9548CF-D959-4D39-B5CC-F7773BDD0D8F}

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={B5E2DC5F-DCB0-4A4A-AD05-95EF060CBA36}

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={85D2988C-C91E-46C5-A384-714C85BD92E4}

Accusing a politican of fathering a black child is one of the oldest dirty tricks in the South; it’s virtually always false, of course.

The thing about Drudge is that he has no standards at all; he operates by the journalistic standards of yellow journalism, yet gets treated like he’s a real reporter - you know, one that confirms what his sources tell him. He just throws any damned thing a conservative leaks to him.

He also mysteriously takes a long time to post shocking stuff about conservative leaders - unless its a case of them not being conservative enough. He’s just a GOP leak conduit. Remember when he tried to out that Candian ABC news reporter, who was already out? Remember when he stuck up some blind quotes on the day David Brock released his book about how he had himself committed to a mental hospital for a while?

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/05/23/20020523_220055_brockb.htm

I’m not complaining about his links, really; just all the unsourced smears he throws up on the page. He’s as much of a “journalist” as NewsMax is an “independent newspaper.”

Oh yeah, Brock more or less painted him as a GOP shill in his book, too.

Good links - thanks. I’ve seen Drudge interviewed, he reminds me more of the guy who runs the “Aint-it-cool” movie page than anyone - a guy who cranked up a web page, gets fed rumours from various sources once in a while. Although I must admit in the occasional viewing of the site I’ve done in the last few years I haven’t seen much of that.

Thank goodness there’s no agenda anywhere in the media on the liberal side! ;) (No, I don’t think there is a blanket “liberal media conspiracy”, but there are a lot of individual media outlets that do let their bias show in a fairly blatant manner. I’m still searching for the truly unbiased, either way, news source - in lieue of that I watch both, e.g., Fox News and ABC News.)

I love the way this thread has been completely derailed.

It was orginally about an opinion piece by conservative luminary George Will complaining about how the California recall would ultimately be bad for conservatives. There was very little comment about Will’s opinion piece.

So, what do the conservatives hanging out here think about what ol’ George wrote?

Oh, the bias is fine; it’s that even the National Enquirer apparently has better reporting standards.

:) Yeah, I was the one who started the thread, too. Although I argue with the liberals here because few others will (I also tend to join the undermanned side in BF1942) I don’t really qualify as a conservative, but I thought it was a superb article.