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"Don't Count Matt Drudge Out"
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[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 [image] "Don't Count Matt Drudge Out" [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] A Slate piece says in a backhanded compliment kinda way. No one who wasn't jealous ever did. 11/11 08:11 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us ...
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Please halp to decipher that last sentence: "Don't Count Matt Drudge Out" [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A Slate piece says in a backhanded compliment kinda way. No one who wasn't jealous ever did. K-Lo does to sentences what shrapnel does to bodies.
Shafer says Drudge isn't done
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Slate's Jack Shafer notes that while some are saying Matt Drudge's influence has waned this election, he shouldn't be counted out.
If you could access only one home page for breaking news and chose Washingtonpost.com or CNN.com over the Drudge Report, you'd be a blockhead. His newswire-meets-tabloid sense of story—hysterical and playful at the same time—links to both what you need to know and what you want to know, and he updates more frequently than conventional media sites do. Sure, Drudge breaks stories of his own now and again, but that's not his ...
Drudgeology
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Jack Shafer says not to count Drudge out: Drudge endures, while imitators and newly minted Web stars fade, for a variety of reasons. He works incredibly hard. He cares about his site. He appears to have no interest in working for somebody else, and his entrepreneurial vigor makes the site come alive. And also because he appreciates something about readers they might not even know themselves: They want an information site that would rather err on the side of recklessness once in a while than be right all the time. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Kathleen Parker: Columns will survive or not as the market dictates, but the blistering response to a dozen or so fellow turncoats reveals something deeply wrong with the conservative movement, such as it is. Or was. P.J. O'Rourke: We blew it. We conservatives unilaterally screwed up. Had we been competent... Aaron Glantz: It's the war. Jonathan Cohn: It's health care. Jack Shafer: Drudge roolz! So he's wrong an awful lot. So what? Maureen Dowd: ...
Remainders: Orange Mocha Frappuccino
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Policy.
The big list of political jobs.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) apologizes for violating Godwin's Law.
Warren Christopher won't play a transition role.
The artistic director of Sacramento's Musical Theatre donated money to an anti-gay marriage group, which Andrew Sullivan thinks isn't a great career move.
Nate Silver argues that Obama's new voters, who were mostly young, actually mostly voted against Prop. 8.
Shafer warns that Drudge has been left for dead before.
What will the Chief ...
