REPORT: Drudge Funneled At Least 30 Million Visitors To Conspiracy Websites In The Last Year

[ErikJ]

Drudge acts as the PRIME MIDDLE-MAN between far RW crackpots and the conservative MSM especially Fox and RW hate radio.

REPORT: Drudge Funneled At Least 30 Million Visitors To Conspiracy Websites In The Last Year-

A ThinkProgress study of the the Drudge Report reveals the popular internet aggregator has linked 184 times to InfoWars and World Net Daily, two sites that promote the internet’s worst conspiracy theories, since June 2011. By directing millions of visitors to these websites, Drudge is providing critical financial and reputational support to publications that argue 9/11 was an inside job, FEMA is building concentration camps and President Obama was not born in the United States.
Despite his support for paranoid conspiracy theorists, Drudge has received frequent praise from the media and political right. Mark

Halperin, senior political analyst for Time Magazine and MSNBC, has called Drudge “the Walter Cronkite of his era,” advising “you can’t refresh Drudge too often.” Politico co-founder John Harris recently called Drudge Report’s influence on the political debate “a real achievement.” During this year’s campaign, Mitt Romney singled out Drudge as one of his favorite websites, and posted an online video of himself reading the Drudge Report on his iPad.

Here are brief summaries of just 5 of the stories Drudge linked to directly on conspiracy websites over the past year:

1. Obama secretly worked for the CIA in Pakistan. “Database reports from the National Student Clearinghouse have contradicted President Obama’s claim he attended Columbia University for two years…Swirling amid the black hole of information are a host of theories about Obama’s whereabouts – particularly during the 1981-1982 school year – including speculation he was working for the CIA in Pakistan.” [WND, 7/8/12]
2. Andrew Breitbart assassinated to prevent release of damaging information about Obama. “In a stunning coincidence, It appears Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.” [InfoWars, 3/2/12; WND 3/1/12]
3. Conservative journalists will be ‘hunted down like dogs’ in an Obama second term. “World Net Daily editor and prominent Obama administration critic Joseph Farah revealed how his secluded property was buzzed by a spy drone – part of what Farah fears is a ‘war’ being waged by the administration against its political adversaries…’ Look – this is the first term – if he’s re-elected it’s going to be war – they will be at war – we will be hunted down like dogs, keep that in mind, that’s what the stakes are,’ said Farah.” [InfoWars, 7/6/12]
4. Angelina Jolie should be arrested for war crimes. “The United Nations’ history of war crimes and massacres is legendary, and just as Joseph Goebbels operated as a propaganda minister for the Nazis, Jolie, who is officially employed by the UN, is their mouthpiece.” [InfoWars, 3/11/12]
5. Bill Ayers’ family paid for Obama to attend school as a foriegn student. “Did former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers help finance Barack Obama’s Harvard education? Did Ayers’ mother believe Obama was a foreign student?” [WND, 3/19/12]

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/07/18/532051/report-drudge-linked-to-conspiracy-websites-184-times-in-the-last-year/

[RockaFowler]

1. And then posted to Facebook by your Conservative relative

You know the ones who actually believe everything that is on the internets is true

[HooptieWagon]

2. I'll keep saying it:

By definition, half the population is below average intelligence.
The RW noise machine has not only figured out how to fleece the sheep, but also get them to vote for them.

[gregoire]

3. I'm still waiting on them to be charged...

with exaggerating the Monica Lewinsky thing. Newsweek decided that it should not be published, but Drudge is so biased he did it anyway even knowing that his betters at Newsweek had already wisely decided against it.

[Tejas]

4. This is news.......why?

About as interesting as Madonna holding a fake AK-47 on stage. B-F-D.

[ErikJ]

5. Important to understand how the RW propaganda machine works.

Matt Drudge - Disinformation guru of the GOP by T. Hartmann

Meet Matt Drudge – the biggest purveyor of misinformation and wild conspiracy theories on the Internet. According to a report by the Center for American Progress – the Drudge Report has posted links to crackpot far-right conspiracy websites more than 180 times in just the last year alone. The Drudge Report is a go-to website for the Conservative movement, and the source for most of the far-right paranoia in this country. Mitt Romney himself admitted that Drudge is his favorite website.

So exactly what kind of fake news is Drudge pushing? Well, things like how the President secretly worked for the CIA in Pakistan. And, how Andrew Breitbart was secretly assassinated. And, how the President is going to hunt down Conservative journalists in his second term. Oh, and, how Bill Ayers paid for Barack Obama’s college education. Matt Drudge – doing his part to dumb down the electorate just ahead of the November election, and our nation is worse off because of it.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2012/07/matt-drudge-disinformation-guru-gop