I see the bowing thing is driving right-wingers crazy. Good.
After eight years of a president who thought the world should bow down to him, we’ve actually got a president who realizes the importance of tact and displomacy and showing respect to our allies - instead of expecting them to fall in line and pronto because we […]

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I love stories like this, endlessly flogged on Drudge, because they cop the attitude that history ends after the very next election:
Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup’s generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July […]

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Now this is interesting. The teabaggers have started storming the Bastille Congress - attempting to go shout at representatives who, you know, don’t actually represent their district - but are having a hard time getting in, and TPM is reporting some arrests (with teabaggers hilariously invoking “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”) Your usual teabag outrage.
But […]

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Political journalists can be so stupid.
Case in point being this GOPolitico piece on Drudge’s “fascination” with the declining dollar, noting that stories of the greenback’s descent have been all over Drudge this October, and gee, why might that be?
I give you one guess. And to its credit, even GOPolitico figures it out - in the […]

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Is Drudge going all isolationist on us?
Good. Let’s get out of Afghanistan, save the lives and the money.

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The takeaway, of course, being that Drudge has spent the past week-plus making the case that Chicago is a uniquely crime-ridden town and that the Olympics absolutely should not come to the U.S. as a result; and he’s rejoicing now that Chicago was bumped in the first round, because a defeat for the USA… is a […]

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Drudge has this linked today, an in-depth interview with Gore Vidal, on the basis of Vidal’s assertion that the U.S. will “have a military dictatorship soon.”
I don’t think Drudge read the piece very closely:
“Obama believes the Republican Party is a party when in fact it’s a mindset, like Hitler Youth, based on hatred — religious hatred, […]

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Ah, I see Drudge is milking the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates for all it’s worth - black and white! How dare anyone suggest white cops sometimes unfairly target blacks!
OUTRAGE!!!
You know what, it does indeed seem as if Gates if milking this. But Gates is standing in his own home when the cop […]

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Drudge is promoting Warren Buffet’s comment that the stimulus package was like a combination of candy and half a tablet of Viagara, but I’m not sure Drudge has read the entire story - because if he had, he would realize that Buffett is saying that a second stimulus might be needed:
“I think a second one may […]

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Drudge has these pics up at the top of his site:

…with links to the fact that the lettuce was planted March 20, and harvested June 16.
The clear implication being that something fishy is going on. Because otherwise it’s merely cute, and Drudge doesn’t do cute when it comes to Democrats.
But, if you have a garden, […]

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Oh noes! Obama goes into McCain country and da kiddiez raise objections to his economic plan! Via - who else - Drudge.
And this one’s hilarious. Protests greet Obama! But look at the numbers:
A crowd of about 300 to 400 people stretched along the sidewalk on the south side of Guadalupe Road, closer to the high […]

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Above-the-headline link - liberal radio yakker gets front-row Obama seat! Link to Michael Calderone at the Politico:
What if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh were up front at Bush’s press conferences in the East Room?
Hm, am I the only one to remember this guy?

What a short institutional memory we have.

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ABC News does Teh Stoopid. Did you know the president gets job perks, like an airplane! I think they call it “Air Force One” or something.
With Drudge bannering becuase Bush flew himself around the country, by flapping his arms.

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Here’s Drudge’s headline:
THE FEAR: PASS IT NOW, OR WE MAY NEVER RECOVER
2 things:
1. Gee, I don’t remember Drudge running headlines like this when it was OMG WE HAVE TO INVADE IRAQ RIGHT NOW THEY’ZZ GONNA DROP TEH WMDS ON OUR HEADS SMOKING GUN MUSHROOM CLOUDZZZZ!!!!
 2. Is this the official confirmation, then, that your right-wingers don’t […]

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Drudge headline - with siren!
IRAN NUKE ‘THIS YEAR’
What the actual story says:
The think tank’s Mark Fitzpatrick made the announcement at today’s launch of its annual global review of military powers.
“During 2009, Iran will probably reach the point at which it has produced the amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb,” he said.
“But […]

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This is Drudge’s lead story? Really?
NO BIBLE USED AT OBAMA RE-SWEAR
Obama hatez TEH CHRISTIANZZZZ! HE’S NOT REALLY PREZNIT!
It’s going to be hilarious to watch Drudge beside himself with one hissy-fit after another these next four years. Already is.

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Pretty accurate, I’d say:
Think about it: the biggest single worry of the Obama campaign has been organizer let-down and voters who get lazy and complacent with such massive leads in the polling data. The Drudge Report, who is influential in driving the news cycle, skews heavily in favor of outlier polls that suggest a down-to-the-wire […]

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Gallup shocker! Except:
None of the dozen or so other polls that were in the field this week shows a race that close. Nor do either of the alternate versions of Gallup’s model, including the so-called Likely Voters II model that I find most credible. (Drudge, of course, had no interest in featuring the Zogby poll, […]

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Sitting around at a kids’ birthday party last night talking with some other parents about the economy, and one of the guys who does some day trading was talking about how there seems to be this desperation to see minor upticks the day after a major sell-off as a “return to normalcy” when in fact […]

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