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Boycott The Drudge Report

Flush Matt Drudge!

Boycott The Drudge Report

Matt Drudge has been at the cutting edge of the smear campaign against Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother of a U.S. Soldier who was killed in Iraq. Cindy has been camped outside of Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas demanding to speak with the pResident.

Matt Drudge has libelously accused Cindy of blaming her son's death on Israel. A position that she does not hold and never stated. Matt Drudge has done his best to falsely claim that Cindy's position on Bush has changed and contradicts her earlier position. Drudge's false claims have been repeated by Fox News and others. Additionally, Matt Drudge has become the mouthpiece and amplifier for any shred of confusion he can cast upon the meaning of Cindy's stand, going so far as to drag relatives and personal matters into the fray.

Matt Drudge is the poster child of the neo-con smear program and it is time that we took action against him. This is a decentralized call for all progressives, liberals, anarchists, socialists and people of conscious to boycott The Drudge Report.

If you visit the Drudge Report for news headlines, find another venue to read. Do not visit his website. If you advertise on the Drudge Report, withhold your advertising. If you have a website and link to the Drudge Report, remove the link from your website. If you have The Drudge Report bookmarked in your "Favorites", please delete the bookmark.

If you have any information on the personal life of Matt Drudge, especially anything that would embarrass him, please post it online. Let him know what it feels like.

Drudge depends upon daily click numbers for his revenue. Let's shut him down!


a better alternative to Drudge is.... 18.Aug.2005 11:57

www.rawstory.com

they have better format and aren't into "right-wing" spinmeistering.

That's Easy... 18.Aug.2005 18:22

Trench Monkey

because it sucks. There's a million, no way, a gagillion other news sites I'd check out before that one. Consider it done. Whoo-hoo!

What drudge gets right 22.Aug.2005 13:00

who@where.com

rawstory misses the point. The Drudge report may be a right-wing smear machine but it gets a few things right that no other website I know of seems to get, except maybe the google homepage. Specifically, it's dead simple and small. Just a few simple headlines and the occasional photo - that's it. No css or external files to slow things down except the picture. No complicated, distracting graphics, and as few ads as possible, off to the sides of the real stories. I can refresh the page in a heartbeat and scan the page in under 30 seconds, and the stories are always bleeding edge. I can't say that of any other news site. Plus, the "odd" and non-political stories are usually quite interesting (there was one on the world's ugliest dog the other day). If he got rid of all the extra links at the bottom, it would be even better.

Anyway, until someone comes up with an equally simple but less right-wing alternative I'll probably keep looking. rawstory ain't it.

No css is a good thing? 06.Apr.2006 14:45

Web Standards

 Who@where.com, You miss the point. The Drudge Report has more code to slow it down than any properly coded CSS-based site. It uses table tags for structure and many unnecessary font tags. Granted, rawstory uses tables and external CSS files, but very poorly. Drudge could make the site faster by stripping it down to 3 divs and a list of links with an external stylesheet for layout.

The speed would blow you away.