The Drudge collapse, cont'd
January 05, 2009 6:29 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
What? A screaming Matt Drudge exclusive, featuring an almost comically too-good-to-be-true quote from an anonymous source, that, within hours of being posted, is categorically denied?
What are the odds?
UPDATE: The comedy that is Matt Drudge journalism continues. Now's he's posted this:
UNDER PRESSURE, NBC EXECS RE-THINK COULTER BOOKINGS... DEVELOPING...
Are you following this? Drudge apparently concocted out of whole cloth his exclusive that NBC had "banned Ann Coulter for life!" NBC immediately denied the claim and suggested Coulter wold soon appear on NBC. So now Drudge claims NBC is re-thinking its non-existent ban on Coulter.
Somebody get Mark Halperin to write this up.
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IS IT AT ALL POSSIBLE, that the Internet Wire portal being mentioned here, did bait and provoke NBC into making a statement, that yes we will still be broadcasting the skank anne coulter, and no we aren't planning to forever relieve our viewing audience from seeing her ever again... is it possible that's what really happened here?
If so, then the guy at that Internet Wire portal, he beams a proud and powerful smile, as he takes a bow.
That's not an easy thing to do, to bait and provoke General Electric's Division of NBC, into publicly affirming their continued attachment to the skank anne coulter: and to get that response in just a few hours time...
Again I say, that's power. The little man takes a big bow, and deservedly so. He has power.
I wish I had a Press Agent as powerful as that... I wish NBC could be baited and provoked into publicly affirming a continued attachment to me, and to have done so in such a short time.
Take a bow, guy: but put your funny hat on, and don't let it come off while you bow: because I don't really care to see the top of your balding head, however clever and powerful (and manipulative) you and it are.