In an extraordinary development, Westmonster has found that the world famous Drudge Report has been marked as “sensitive material” by Twitter, with some users now having to OPT IN in order to see tweets. Hardly any tweets from Drudge were visible today when Westmonster logged in.
Well, I for one used to watch the Drudge Report when he was on TV back during the Bill Clinton impeachment hearings. It was a refreshing change from the mainstream news outlets who were nothing but Clinton apologists. However, now I mostly avoid his site. He's gone a little too far off the deep end for my tastes. I'd still like to know what material Drudge is putting out that twitter considers "sensitive material", unless you count some of his fake news as sensitive. If that's the issue, you'd pretty much have to censor most of the internet.
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my beef is around how it ALWAYS(going back to Clinton days) was about Matt and his persona, and you can just smell that actual facts go by the wayside if it doesn't fit the schtick. With your MSNBC comparison you have a network that, if you tuned in from time to time, is hardly monolithic. Over time they've sort of sent the real ideologues packing(Sharpton, Olbermann, Ed Shultz, etc), and now have a liberal leaning but more fact based crew. Hell, they now have Greta Van Sustern, my new 6 pm viewing some nights(if it isn't My Little Pony or Peppa Pig).
"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell---"1984"
woodchip wrote:Well the Clinton days are 2 decades old. Drudge has changed...as did MSNBC.
if you say so. I don't see it. If anything, in his case, he's gone towards the fringes. Likely trying to find a niche market of some sort, but hardly anything one could EVER call 'real journalism'. The same cannot be said of MSNBC, unless one has no clue what actual 'journalism' entails.
"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell---"1984"
callmeslick wrote:he was spewing BS back then, you were just more receptive.
No, not receptive, just more entertained. It was however, a great diversion from all the Clinton butt kissing that was going on in the mainstream press however. It was absolutely unwatchable at times and finally I got sick of it, and I'm a liberal-leaning person. Sure, the Republicans were on a ridiculous taxpayer money wasting witch hunt, but Clinton DID bring it on himself. He could have saved us all a boatload of anger and taxpayer money by admitting that he actually DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN.
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True. But the drama wouldn't have lingered for so long nor cost so much and I would've given Bill the benefit of doubt for being a honest but fallible human being. Instead, he came off as a lying adulterous scumbag willing to throw people under the bus, including his accuser, for his own political gain. Kind of like what Trump normally does.
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Tunnelcat wrote:True. But the drama wouldn't have lingered for so long nor cost so much and I would've given Bill the benefit of doubt for being a honest but fallible human being. Instead, he came off as a lying adulterous scumbag willing to throw people under the bus, including his accuser, for his own political gain. Kind of like what Trump normally does.
I'm pretty sure it would be about as long. Maybe longer, given how 'pious'* they are.
Tunnelcat wrote:Sure, the Republicans were on a ridiculous taxpayer money wasting witch hunt, but Clinton DID bring it on himself. He could have saved us all a boatload of anger and taxpayer money by admitting that he actually DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN.
Ken Starr spent 4 years investigating Arkansas Project BS before anyone heard the name Lewinsky. If Clinton didn't lie, it wouldn't have saved anything except a bunch of pearl clutching by hypocrites.
Tunnelcat wrote:Sure, the Republicans were on a ridiculous taxpayer money wasting witch hunt, but Clinton DID bring it on himself. He could have saved us all a boatload of anger and taxpayer money by admitting that he actually DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN.
Ken Starr spent 4 years investigating Arkansas Project BS before anyone heard the name Lewinsky. If Clinton didn't lie, it wouldn't have saved anything except a bunch of pearl clutching by hypocrites.
I can't disagree. The Clintons were on the Republican's radar, hypocrisy be damned (adulterous Newt Gingrich, at the very same time no less), and even if Clinton had fessed up to his little sexploit, they would've found some other BS to try and nail him on. Knowing all politicians, including the Clintons, there was probably some dirt buried somewhere just waiting to be found. They didn't get to the top of the political heap by being squeaky clean and honest.
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