Internet Gossip Monger Matt Drudge Blasts Olbermann As A ‘Phony’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/drduge-on-olbermann/

Internet Gossip Monger Matt Drudge Blasts Olbermann As A ‘Phony’

On his Sunday night radio program, Matt Drudge blasted Keith Olbermann as a “phony,” calling him “complete and utter camp.”

Drudge — the operator of the right-wing pseudo news site Drudge Report — was talking about the Venezuelan government’s shutdown of the country’s oldest private TV station when he veered the discussion into a hit piece on Olbermann. “When we start hearing that the National Guard is seizing television stations, alright then I’m on board,” Drudge said. “Then I’m on board, Olbermann. Until then, it’s all pancake, makeup, and Edward R. Murrow ‘good night and good luck’ and…complete and utter camp.”

“What’s being peddled over there at MSNBC” is “phony — phony lights, phony music, and everything there,” said Drudge, an Internet gossip who frolics in “the most salacious aspects of American politics.”

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In 1998, Matt Drudge ran a TV series on Fox. Olbermann said at the time that Drudge “has gone from being an idiot with a modem to an idiot with a modem and a television show on the most irresponsible network in America.”

Transcript:

DRUDGE: When we start hearing that the National Guard is seizing television stations, alright then I’m on board. Then I’m on board, Olbermann. Until then, it’s all pancake, makeup, and Edward R. Murrow good night and good luck and all… you know. Camp. Camp! That’s the right word to describe what’s being peddled over there at MSNBC. Complete and utter camp.

OLBERMANN (voice over): “Good night and good luck.”

DRUDGE: And some people are taking it seriously because they think it’s on TV so it has to be real. Please. And then they take off the hair, they take off the teeth, and they peel the face off — and then it’s you know, it’s all this phony — phony lights, phony music, and everything there.

[peacetalksforall]

1. Sounds like another one is cracking up.

[RedStateShame]

2. Yeah, how can you take seriously a reporter who doesn't have a fedora?

Or a cowboy hat?

[Donnachaidh]

3. This is IRONIC coming from a guy who wanted to be an Internet Gossip columnist

Matt Drudge was laughed off the usenet movie industry and gossip groups a full decade ago, for taking other writers work, reformatting it, and posting it as *hot gossip*. I really wish someone would do a piece in his history.

He calls KO *camp*? Puh-leeze! :rofl:

[Mz Pip]

8. Oddball

is kind of campy, but so what? The first half of the program deals with serious issues and in no way are they presented in a campy manner.

Drudge, Limpballs, Hannity and their ilk are just annoyed that anyone who isn't parroting RW spin is getting popular.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Matt takes off the hat and it's...

100% asshole!

[Mz Pip]

5. I don't think the National Guard

was seizing radio or TV stations when Murrow was broadcasting. That's not the point. Keith gets below the spin of the right wing talking points and exposes the truth of what is going on with BushCo. He reports information that other media seem loath to touch.

If that gets under Drudge's skin, then good for him. Keith's got their attention.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Frustratedlady]

6. I agree. Drudge is a drudge...menial and a nuisance. nt

I can't believe people still read him...even Repugs.

[RedStateShame]

7. I can't and don't believe that.

I mean, really. Repugs can read?

[Frustratedlady]

10. I know one who does, but I think we have him convinced...

that he should stay away from Drudge. He posted an article a year or so ago which degraded women and this guy found out what "hell hath no fury" meant. ;-) He hasn't mentioned Drudge since.

[Bitwit1234]

9. We can take him seriously???????

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[tjwash]

11. That's like Rush Limbaugh calling John Kerry a draft dodger.

Anyone with more than a couple of brain cells to rub together will just ignore it.