Normally I do this show using the Memeorandum site as it is a useful news aggregator, and it is in a handy outline form. Sometimes I will look at Drudge, which I hardly do anymore. When was the last time anyone mentioned Drudge? It really is amazing to think that a decade ago it was the go-to site for what was happening in the news and now it may as well have tumbleweeds on it. When was the last time Matt Drudge was seen in public?
This lack of relevance reminded me of something I saw the other day about how Drudge got the scoop of the century during the Clinton years. This was before social media was a thing and before most people were online, but powerful people were pushing Drudge. He was a frequent guest of B-list talk radio programs like Mary Matelin and Michael Medved. Why they would have an obscure website guy as a guest never made any sense until he suddenly got the Lewinsky scoop.
Anyway, someone on Twitter, now stupidly called X, pointed out that the reason anyone knew about Clinton raping interns was that the Israelis tried to use the information to blackmail Clinton and when that failed they gave it to Drudge. It suggests that Lewinsky was recruited by her home country’s intel agency to exploit a well-known vulnerability. It also suggests that Drudge was made famous because he got intel from his home country’s intel agency.
That raises a lot of questions about the outpouring of support for Israel from every Republican politician and most of the Democrats. Maybe the reason that a guy like Tom Cotton cannot shut up about Israel is that he has secrets he wants to remain secret. It is also a reminder that our news media does no honest reporting and relies entirely on information handed to it by governments. That means everything in the news is there because powerful people want it in the public domain.
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