Kerry advertising on Drudge????

[CatWoman]

A Pairing Too Strange for Politics


• Just how testy are relations between the supporters of dueling Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and John Kerry? Darned testy, it seems.

Yesterday Dean-loving Web-logger Scott Moore, proprietor of the Points West site (www.pointswest.blogspot.com), savaged the Massachusetts senator for running campaign advertising on the site of Democratic nemesis Matt Drudge, the political equivalent of Satan..


"This frightening couple: John Kerry and Matt Drudge. Ewwwww, ick ," Moore wrote. " candidate for the Dem nod giving this right-wing nutbag DOLLARS raised in the Dem Primary to post banner ads on Drudge Report? Heck, Kerry might as well buy Drudge a bow and arrow decorated with Donkey Feathers."

Yesterday Kerry spokesman Chris Lehane told us that ad was mistakenly placed on Drudgereport.com by Google, which has a contract with the Kerry campaign to direct ads to various Web sites based on their editorial content and audience. Drudge has published a great many items about Kerry, but none has been particularly flattering. After our inquiry, the ad was pulled. "Now Google will not post ads on Web sites without our approval," Lehane said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23351-2003Jul7.html

[DEMActivist]

1. Sounds like payback for favors to me

Like for Drudge running the "Dean will fire McAuliffe" story for them?

I don't think there's any further doubt where Drudge got his Sunday story idea now.

[LiberalLibra]

2. That is for those UNHAPPY voters looking for an alternative......

....to the WH squatter. I hope he changes a few minds too!!!

[ilpostino]

3. For the sake of argument

Let's assume that Kerry's people really wanted to advertise on Drudge. The argument against doing so could be used against advertising on Fox...or Clear Channel (let's calculate the wisdom of winning a national election with that strategy...). Should the Sierra Club give their advertising dollars to PBS because Masterpiece Theater is brought to you by the Mobil Corporation? Should Planned Parenthood or the ACLU or Greenpeace for crying out loud try to reach out to any venue--NBC, CBS, ABC-- where none but the noblest of heart may take their money and none but the rightness of mind may see their message? These Ivory Flakes purity tests are fascinating for the insight they provide into the silly, self-destructive workings of the minds of our allies.