I cannot help but notice that, as of 2:17 a.m. EST on Saturday, the vastly popular Drudge Report hadn't included a single reference to Friday's report that Sarah Palin did indeed abuse her powers as governor in the firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
(Saturday Morning, at last, there has appeared a side bar story on the matter, under a piece on Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, a White House economic plan non-story and allegations against an Obama fundraiser.)
In other news, yes, the financial markets continue to die, but I'd say that anytime the vice presidential candidate of a major party is determined to have abused his or her powers by a bi-partisan committee -- well, I'd say it's a bit more important than, I don't know, maybe Putin's pet tiger...
The story is that the Republican Party vice presidential nominee three weeks before the election has been found by a bi-partisan Alaska legislative investigation to have violated state ethics laws and abused her power by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. So there it is.
Understandably, as a conservative-leaning news source, Drudge ought to be afforded a certain amount of editorial discretion. For instance, it's no surprise that anti-Obama propaganda on the site has intensified as the McCain campaign scrambles to stop the bleeding. But failing to even mention the Alaska committee's report hours after it was released, even in an editorialized manner? A news story that's headlining on nearly every major network?
Really? No response?
That's just comical, and, frankly not all that re-assuring of Palin's innocence. One would think that the Republican juggernaut of the blogosphere would at least want to spin this. Has Palin become so unpopular in the collective unconscious of conservative America that not even the Drudge Report will rise to her defense?
No wonder those McCain rallies are so angry.
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His support for Palin smacks in the face of everything he ever professed to believe in during his radio show.
For a widely-read conservative-slanted "news" aggregator such as DREDGE, this was not good news. Like the kid who brings home a bad report card, he waits to the last, most distractable moment - hopefully in the middle of the night as DREDGE did - to drop the bombshell.
I believe it's called "burying the lede".
If I'm not mistaken, DREDGE prominently featured Palin's pre-emptive self-exculpation the evening before. He knows exactly what hes doing, and to what base hes playing. More often than not, he sets their agenda.
They brainwash them into believing that MSM is a boogy man...don't watch....don't read the NYT....liberal rags ..all of them.
I was at a Nascar forum the other day..it was like visiting an alternate universe... and they had no idea that Todd Palin was a member of AIP...none..
They were yucking it up about Biden ....demanding to know how many millions he's worth.......WHAT??
So..this....not being posted at Drudge...is normal procedure..
What do you expect from the protectionist media?
Now maybe it will get some play where it matters, but most Evangelicals and dogmatic repbs would dissmiss it anyway.
Cheers- Glug glug
On what planet??????
If Obama had an ethic violation against him, it would be news 24/7 on every major and minor channel. When are you people going to see the light around here? McCain is being protected by the MSM while they claim Obama is being coddled. That a farce.
The entire MEDIA SYSTEM is for sale to the highest bidder and the sleaziest crooks out there. And because Obama has made plenty of money online for his campaign and can afford to pay for TV time, watch the MSM cry about McCain not being able to get the same time. They are going to cry like babies for McCain and could have cared less if the shoe was on the other foot.
Crooks have a tendency to look out for each other.
Outing the news about Prince Harry in Afghanistan was reckless.
And his visitor stats are hogwash.
Olbermann goes overboard sometimes, but he was right when he called Drudge "an idiot with a modem".