Matt Drudge's recipe to discredit those who disagree

[romantico]

Exagerate or leave out information when reporting a story (Michael Moore snubed from Oscars the REAL STORY. Moore removed his name for consideration back in October)

Make the subject look as insane as possible to help back up your lies,...er', claims (Ted Turner compares Fox News to Hitler. Drudge found the WORST picture of Turner to post on his homepage)

Remember when Limabugh got bent out of shape when the 'liberal media' uses an old picture of him when he was fat? Same thing!

WHy can't someone bait Drudge? Get pics of him & an underaged boy or something. I wish Michale Moore would show up on his doorstep on A friday night or Saturday morning with a camera crew!

[soleft]

1. While I agree with you that Drudge is a fascist tool

To say that we could catch him with an underaged boy because he happens to be a gay man - do we really want to go there?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Yes!

If a right wingers daughter was a prostitute and we had the pictures of their daughter in this undesirable position, I would absolutly use those pictures against them!

The GOP has done this and now we will do the same!

[comsymp]

6. Interesting response -

Too late in the day to debate outing or targeting family members, but I am intrigued by your comparison between being gay and prostitution...

Anyway, I think Soleft's point was that it's fallacious to assume that gay = child molester, as implied in Romantico's OP.

[Sparkle]

11. A lot of people make that assumption.

And it's dead wrong.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

12. I am not making a comparison. I am saying that I have no...

problem emotionally hurting our opponents! They do it to us and we must do it back!

[WillowTree]

13. I see.

"The GOP has done this and now we will do the same!"

So, that's the kind of people and the kind of behavior that you want to emulate? That's who you want to become?

I've always thought of liberalism as being better than that. Any party and/or movement that I'll ever follow will certainly strive to be better than that. The day we compromise who and what we are for the sake of what we perceive to be 'beating someone at his own game' is the day we lose all right to criticize.

You want to become a pseudo Swift Boat Vet? Go right ahead. See where it gets you.

[yurbud]

3. Yes. It would only be gay bashing if it WASN'T underage.

although to associate drudge with gays is an insult to other gays.

[barackmyworld]

4. Yeah! One of them was my fault

It was actually mentioned in an article, he put a picture of me in a "John edwards is hot" shirt from the DNC next to the headline "Edwards to call Kerry decisive, strong"

Looked pretty ridiculous!

[cmkramer]

5. Michael Moore

Actually, while he did remove his film for consideration for the Documentary award, I believe it was in order for it to be eligible for Best Picture.

[boneygrey]

7. You're correct

At least that is my understanding.

[MADem]

8. Send him a dozen eggs

David Brock's book explains that!

Wonder if his favorite song has the lyrics "I am the eggman!"

[Sparkle]

9. Yes, I remember the pic he posted of Clinton and some college

girl that played volleyball and he started some rumor that he was after the girl. What he did was he cropped the full picture which also had several other people in it. He was busted on that one but he gave his readers something to salivate on.

[theboss]

10. Moore did not remove his movie from consideration overall

He removed it from the Documentary category.

[geek tragedy]

14. Except he's telling the truth on that one---Moore was actively campaigning

for F911 to get a BP nomination--it just didn't.

He's a fascist idiot, but let's call him on stuff he deserves to be called on.