Reality check: Drudge, Accuracy, and Bill Clinton's "Love Child"

[Karmadillo]

I think the allegations of Kerry infidelity would have been saved for later if true. Maybe I'm wrong, but Drudge has been known to wander some distance from the truth in his efforts to take down Democrats. Case in point: the Love Child of Bill Clinton. Widely reported, proven false, quickly forgotten by the guilty parties in the press. As usual, the Daily Howler reminds us what really happened.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/h011399_1.shtml

Life in this celebrity press corps: Accepting the lies that blind

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But we were struck throughout by the tepid way the group critiqued what had happened. Here’s a list of things no one ever said in the course of the lengthy discussion:

1/ No one ever said what is now plainly true: the accuser had lied to the public.

2. No one ever said, or lamented the fact, that Bill Clinton had been lied about.

3. No one criticized Matt Drudge by name for pushing his latest imbecile story.

4. No one asked how news of the DNA testing got from the Star to Drudge. No one wondered if Star editor Phil Bunton had been guilty of spreading the slander. (In fact, the Star was complimented. See below.)

5. No one mentioned the New York Post, or criticized it for putting this “story” on page one (January 3).

6. The Washington Times was barely mentioned, and never directly condemned, for doing its own page one story.

7. No one mentioned that Woodruff’s “woman” was actually a prostitute, Bobbi Ann Williams, reportedly paid “in the low six figures” by the Star (Washington Times). This might have helped viewers see how absurd it was that any paper had reported her charges.

8. No one named the individual journalists who had pimped this disgraceful slander. For example, no one mentioned the shameful work of Woody West of the Washington Times. (See tomorrow’s DAILY HOWLER.)

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[HFishbine]

1. Druge also broke the Clinton/Monica story

as you'll recall.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. you know what they say about that broken clock....

[Brian Sweat]

4. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

Drudge is like a psychic. People only remember his successes.

[StopTheMorans]

2. thank you!

and the sensationalism over Drudge's unfounded allegations on DU is incredible, it seems like many people WANT to believe it...

[seventhson]

6. I have said consistently that Kerry's reported infidelity

was one of the main reasons I did not trust him.

I agree that a man who will lie to his wife for sex will lie to anyone to get anything - especially power and money.

[curlyred]

5. Good point

It's interesting how quickly people just love to believe the worst, isn't it?

It's also interesting that when Drudge is criticizing the Shrub, he's a hero, but if he breaks trash about a democrat, he's a jerk.

Look at this front page today, if you can stand it, and you will see plenty of teasers about Bush too.

Drudge panders to our gossip lust, that's the bottom line.