What I haven't seen explored is the fact that Drudge created Breitbart

[ruggerson]

Everyone is pounding away at Fox News and Breitbart.

What about Matt Drudge?

Breitbart is Drudge's business partner. He created breitbart.com and approached Drudge years ago, so that Drudge could have a faux "news" site to link to. In essence it was created so that they could manufacture stories about Democrats, Breitbart could run them on his "news" service, which mimics the Associated Press, and then Drudge could trumpet it on his site as if it was from a credible, independent source.

It only goes to Hannity and O'Reilly and the rest of the bottom feeders after Drudge and Co. have first birthed it.

During the last election cycle, the rest of the "MSM" routinely picked up "news" items from Drudge and Breitbart and ran them on cable and even on the nightly news, as if they were real stories.

None of this would be happening without Matt Drudge. He is the vortex of the maelstrom of lies that is rightwing "news." You don't stop either Fox News or Andrew Breitbart without first exposing and de-legitimizing Matt Drudge.

[Spazito]

1. Well, it was both Drudge AND Arianna Huffington ...

according to the scumbucket himself:

"And I was wandering, and I had nothing better to do than be there on day one of the Internet revolution, while I had other friends that were in law school or in medical school. Those guys couldn't afford to take the chance on the Internet; I couldn't not take the chance to be on the Internet. And meeting Matt Drudge very early on, and then hooking up with Arianna Huffington, pretty much the skill sets that I'm employing today are very much, you know, had been learned in being in their proximity."

Drudge I knew about, Arianna is new but, given her website, I should not be surprised.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Balderdash

Here's the deal. According to the scumbucket is not an endorsement of truth. Ever. Tell me what Arriana says, or what other people say, not what a known liar says. Geez.

[emilyg]

4. Info for you

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Andrew Breitbart

Born February 1, 1969 (1969-02-01) (age 41)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Writer, Columnist
Spouse(s) Susie Bean
Children 4
Religious belief(s) Jewish

Andrew J. Breitbart (pronounced /ˈbraɪtbɑrt/; born February 1, 1969) is an American publisher,<1> commentator for the Washington Times, author,<2> an occasional guest commentator on various news programs. He may be best-known for serving as an editor for the Drudge Report website. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and was employed by her as "the primary developer

[Spazito]

5. Those ARE Breitbart's OWN words...

not some anonymous source saying he said it. Try researching his bio, you will find it is a FACT he worked for Arianna and the Huffington Post. You could not have clicked on the link before over-reacting and doing some research prior to posting might also be helpful.

To start you off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart

HuffPo Cofounder Takes On ‘Democrat-Media Complex’

Breitbart knows something about liberal bloggers. His pre-BigGovernment career included many months working to launch The Huffington Post. (He had been a researcher for Arianna Huffington in the early 1990s, before he joined Drudge, when both of them were still conservatives.)

http://washingtonindependent.com/60680/huffpo-cofounder-takes-on-democrat-media-complex

[ruggerson]

6. The Huffington Post did not exist in the early 90's

His being employed by Arianna back when she was still a rightwinger is kind of irrelevant to the point of the OP.

[Spazito]

9. You must have missed this...

"His pre-BigGovernment career included many months working to launch The Huffington Post."

http://washingtonindependent.com/60680/huffpo-cofounder-takes-on-democrat-media-complex

I believe Huffington Post was established after Arianna had 'left' the right.



I think it is relevant to the point in the OP in that you stated Drudge 'created' Breitbart whereas there were at least two to whom Breitbart himself gives credit. I think, given his history re Huffington Post, it would be fair to bring up that past and query Ms. Huffington on her past business relationship with the scumbag.

I would be very interested on Arianna's opinion of the scumbag Breitbart and assume I will see it posted on DU when she chooses to make public such an opinion.

[ProSense]

11. Likely the reason Ken Blackwell can post there

Despicable scumbag.

Why would she even give a forum to that lying bastard?

[Spazito]

12. I used to wonder why scum like him as well as others equally as bad..

have found a 'home' at Huffington Post, I think I now know why. It has become an appalling site, imo, with more hit pieces mixed with celebrity gossip all paid for by add-on advertising that makes the site almost impossible to load.

[ruggerson]

13. The point of the OP is to point out the fact that Drudge is the puppeteer behind almost all of this

Whatever Breitbart's early relationship with Huffington is nothing but a small, historical footnote compared to the business conglomerate of rightwing "news" that is currently run by the Drudge/Breitbart syndicate.

[ruggerson]

3. Huffington and Breitbart are not political bedfellows

and as far as I know, they do not have a business relationship remotely similar to Drudge and Breitbart.

The NYT magazzine, a few years back, ran an entire expose on the partnership between Breitbart and Drudge. The two of them are the self perpetuating rightwing news machine.

[emilyg]

7. According to wiiki he

did research for Huff

[Spazito]

14. Given his 'talents' the likes of which we have witnessed in both the Acorn...

and Ms. Sherrod smears, I wonder exactly what kind of research he did for Huff and Ms. Huffington.

[ProSense]

8. "During the last election cycle, the rest of the "MSM" routinely picked up "news" items from Drudge"

And it wasn't all Republican driven NYT

[ruggerson]

10. That was in 2007 before a single primary vote was cast

So, obviously the inept Clinton campaign wasn't very successful at stymying him.

During the primary season, Drudge did nothing but try to destroy her in any way he could.

And, as soon as the primary season was over he turned his sights on Obama.

Again, your item has zilch to do with the point of the OP.