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UPDATED: Politico's Thrush, ABC's Klein compete for Drudge link

February 24, 2009 10:25 pm ET by Karl Frisch

Politico's Glenn Thrush is up with an awfully meaty post following the President's first address to a Joint Session of Congress tonight.  It says, in full:

46 minutes

It took President Obama 46 minutes to mention terrorism, the military or foreign affairs.

By Glenn Thrush 09:57 PM

I kid you not.  He seems to be saying, "Please Matt Drudge, please link to me, pretty please..."

Not to be outdone, Rick Klein makes the same pointless assessment during his live blogging of the speech on ABC's The Note:

9:58 pm ET: Took a LONG while to get to foreign policy, no?

I wonder how long it will take Drudge to read these love notes and post his own note in return -- in the form of a link.

Bring on the traffic... daddy's gotta pay the bills (through online ad impressions.)

UPDATE: It looks like Thrush and Klein may be trolling the Twitters for help in their quest for Drudge's affection.

Tags: Attacks on Barack Obama, Propaganda/Noise Machine

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    • Author by mk3872 (February 24, 2009 11:51 pm ET)
         
      Thanks for this, Karl, I am ROFL! I would go one step further and say that Politico and The Note are much more trying not just for Dudge's love but also to bring more conservative Obama haters to click through their advertisers. Keep up the good work, this was too funny!
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    • Author by harley (February 25, 2009 7:42 am ET)
         

      How long did it take Jindahl to mention terrorism?

       

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    • Author by magnolialover (February 25, 2009 8:26 am ET)
         
      I thought that primarily this speech was about our economy and what we're doing to fix it, and where we're going from stimulus bill onward? This wasn't a foreign policy speech.
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