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blm

(113,063 posts)
Fri May 25, 2012, 03:42 PM May 2012

How did we miss this gem about Matt Drudge - Social media Moonie?

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/matt_drudges_rescue_mission/singleton/

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D.C.’s conservative newspaper, the Washington Times, has long been mocked for its crazy owner, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. When he isn’t busy performing mass weddings, the billionaire Moon has been underwriting the money-losing paper — which, at a high point, once earned the personal praise of Ronald Reagan. Recently, however, the Times has struggled, not just because of the usual industry woes, but also because of infighting among the 92-year-old Moon’s heirs. Thankfully, the Times has had a helping hand from another famous right-wing eccentric: Matt Drudge.

For the past year, Drudge has provided the Washington Times with, on average, 46 percent of its monthly traffic. In November of 2011, the Drudge Report sent 4.7 million visitors to the Washington Times website, or 57 percent of all the Times’ traffic that month. By comparison, just 820,000 visitors actually accessed the Times through its homepage that November. (These numbers come from the Times’ internal Google Analytics statistics, which Salon obtained.)

The Drudge Report’s interest in the Washington Times is relatively recent. In November 2010, for example, it sent just 1.5 million readers to the paper’s website, less than a third of the readers it sent one year later. The Drudge Report began linking to the Washington Times with greater frequency in March 2011 — the same month, it so happens, that the Times hired a Drudge Report editor to write a weekly column for the paper.

Joseph Curl, a veteran political journalist and longtime friend of Drudge who had worked for the Drudge Report as an editor since May 2010, joined the Times that month. Curl’s first column coincided with a 30-person hiring spree. And in May 2011 — the last time Drudge referrals to the Times dipped below two million — it became clear that Drudge was employing another Washington Times hire from March 2011, Charlie Hurt, who had quietly left his job as the New York Post’s Washington bureau chief several months earlier. Hurt’s first Times op-ed ran the same week as Curl’s.
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Really - think about this......The GOP and its voter base have been hanging their hats on the 'news' they get from media developed over the last 3 decades by a Korean cult leader and an Australian extortionist.

They deserve our scorn and ridicule. We need to strike at them persistently with no let up now that both are in fairly vulnerable positions.

If not now, when? Never go without noting that the RW depends on the anti-American media empires of a Korean cult leader and an Australian extortionist.


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How did we miss this gem about Matt Drudge - Social media Moonie? (Original Post) blm May 2012 OP
Yep, the old Bush-Moon connection. The Emperor still has no clothes, but they don't wanna know it. freshwest May 2012 #1
An Australian extortionist married to a long time Communist BlueCaliDem May 2012 #2
Bush family's ties to China are thick, too. blm May 2012 #3
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #4
A lot of RWers don't know about the Moon connection. progressoid May 2012 #5
How could we miss this gem? Jack Rabbit May 2012 #6
Ahh!!! There's that xenophobia of yours again!! harmonicon May 2012 #7
get over it - It's used in the context of GLOBAL FASCISM and has zero to do with xenophobia. blm May 2012 #8
I'm guessing that you've never lived anywhere as an immigrant, right? harmonicon May 2012 #9
you're reaching to turn this into something it isn't... blm May 2012 #10
I don't get the part where you use someone's status as an immigrant as an epithet. (nt) harmonicon May 2012 #11
Because they were never HERE as immigrants. They came here to set up a US media empire blm May 2012 #12
Plenty of people run global empires without being immigrants. harmonicon May 2012 #13
Not to me, and it was MY post and my usage of their home country to illustrate the GLOBAL aspect blm May 2012 #14
No, I know what xenophobia is. You seem not to. (nt) harmonicon May 2012 #17
I do and my post ain't it. Move along to one where your outrage can be believed. blm May 2012 #18
You know who else is a Moonie? David Brooks. Octafish May 2012 #15
Keeping truth alive, Octafish. blm May 2012 #16
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2012 #19

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. Yep, the old Bush-Moon connection. The Emperor still has no clothes, but they don't wanna know it.
Fri May 25, 2012, 03:48 PM
May 2012

That's the problem the folks have with the uber wealthy. They think that every dropping from their mouths is pure gold, and their supporters hope some of it will fall into their pockets. Facts and truth mean nothing, they all jump onboard with that reality. There were a lot of Moonie convesions in the Deep South, and that included some of the old white supremacists. When it's all said and done, people will believe what they want to believe. If they thought about it, the rich aren't any better or smarter than the rest of us, just richer and what they say doesn't mean squat.

blm

(113,063 posts)
3. Bush family's ties to China are thick, too.
Fri May 25, 2012, 04:13 PM
May 2012

The handing over of US manufacturing (and Walmart by Jackson Stephens) to Chinese industrialists didn't happen in a vacuum. It was a Bush family plan - GHWBush and his brother Prescott, along with Jackson Stephens - global fascism - NWO.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
5. A lot of RWers don't know about the Moon connection.
Fri May 25, 2012, 06:02 PM
May 2012

I shocked a couple RW family members when I informed them that he owned the Times. Of course, they didn't believe me so I then I hit them with the Bush connection.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
6. How could we miss this gem?
Fri May 25, 2012, 06:40 PM
May 2012

I, for one, have never googled for the latest news on Matt Drudge. He's as lousy an excuse for a journalist as James O'Keefe. He makes Bill O'Reilly look like Pulitzer Prize material.

He is now what he's always been: irrelevant. Just like the Washington Times.

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
7. Ahh!!! There's that xenophobia of yours again!!
Fri May 25, 2012, 06:46 PM
May 2012

Calling Murdoch an "Australian extortionist" is not different than someone calling an immigrant to the US from Mexico a "filthy Mexican." Some US citizens, including Murdoch, are extortionists. Some US citizens, I would guess including some from other countries, actually are filthy. In neither case does using their country of origin as an adjective to an insult add anything relevant to a discussion. It's not nice to criticize someone because of their nation of origin or race - in fact, it's xenophobic by definition. Is it just that no matter how much the law says all citizens are equal, immigrants will always be suspect and less equal than "born and bred" Americans? How nice of you.

blm

(113,063 posts)
8. get over it - It's used in the context of GLOBAL FASCISM and has zero to do with xenophobia.
Fri May 25, 2012, 07:49 PM
May 2012

You can think whatever you want - I don't give a hoot what you need to tell yourself.

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
9. I'm guessing that you've never lived anywhere as an immigrant, right?
Fri May 25, 2012, 08:15 PM
May 2012

xenophobia |ˌzēnəˈfōbēə; ˌzenə-|
noun
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries

So, it's worse that these people are from other countries is what you're saying, right? Using someone's foreignness as an epithet is nothing new; see, for instance, "international jew."

blm

(113,063 posts)
10. you're reaching to turn this into something it isn't...
Fri May 25, 2012, 08:51 PM
May 2012

you can bark all you want, but, it's still the wrong tree

It highlights the fact that they are GLOBAL FASCISTS and were tapped for the propaganda duty by the fascist Bush family, GHWBush and Prescott Bush and American global fascist Jackson Stephens (a BCCI figure, as well) who made their deals with Chinese industrialists in the 70s, and Fascist Stephens brought American traitor company WalMart to the table as their bargaining chip with the Chinese industrialists.

Now....what part of the GLOBAL FASCIST AGENDA do you still not get?

blm

(113,063 posts)
12. Because they were never HERE as immigrants. They came here to set up a US media empire
Fri May 25, 2012, 09:27 PM
May 2012

for their pal, GHWBush, and for their longterm goal of NWO and its global fascist agenda. You can't have a GLOBAL fascist agenda without the cooperation of other global fascists from other parts of the globe, now, can you?

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
13. Plenty of people run global empires without being immigrants.
Fri May 25, 2012, 09:49 PM
May 2012

Murdoch, an American, still owns businesses in the UK and Australia. He's vilified enough over here for his actions, without having to be smeared as "American, Rupert Murdoch." I've said it before, and I'll say it again: using someone's status as an immigrant as an insult is an insult to all immigrants.

blm

(113,063 posts)
14. Not to me, and it was MY post and my usage of their home country to illustrate the GLOBAL aspect
Sat May 26, 2012, 11:36 AM
May 2012

of their fascist agenda. You have your own narrow view of my post and that has you STILL barking up the wrong tree.

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