# Matt Drudge: hysterical demagogue **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648 "2003-11-17T05:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/1 "2003-11-17T05:00:35Z")
[This](http://www.drudgereport.com/mattsb.htm) is currently screaming, front page news on the Drudge Report: > [@](#): > > DISNEY’S NEW SANTA: DRINKS, ROBS, SWEARS AND HAS SEX > > **Exclusive** > > Top DISNEY executives continue to grow more and more disillusioned by subsidiary studio MIRAMAX, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, this time over a controversial interpretation of a post-modern Santa Claus! > > Just weeks after releasing Quentin Tarantino’s shock-samuri-slasher KILL BILL, the DISNEY family will distribute a twisted update of Miracle On 34th Street, BAD SANTA, featuring Santa Claus as you’ve never seen him before! > > MORE > > Santa Claus, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is shown, drinking, sexing and robbing his way through the holidays. Drudge goes on and on in this vein but his outrage and panic is untainted by one very important fact: THE MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS! Billy Bob plays a conman who poses as a _department store_ Santa. It is not, as Drudge alleges, an “interpretation of a post-modern Santa.” Santa Claus is not in this movie. Santa Claus does not exist in this movie’s universe… Drudge does not point this out anywhere in his alarmist “report.” He refers only to “Santa” throughout. Matt Drudge is a fucking lying asshole. For those who don’t know, [_Bad Santa_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/) is a forthcoming dark comedy from director, Terry Zwigoff (_Crumb_, _Ghost World_). Zwigoff is a genius. Drudge is a tool. Also, _Kill Bill_ kicked ass. Fuck you Drudge. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/2 "2003-11-17T05:32:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > [BDrudge goes on and on in this vein but his outrage and panic is untainted by one very important fact: > > THE MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS! > > Billy Bob plays a conman who poses as a _department store_ Santa. It is not, as Drudge alleges, an “interpretation of a post-modern Santa.” Santa Claus is not in this movie. Santa Claus does not exist in this movie’s universe… Drudge does not point this out anywhere in his alarmist “report.” He refers only to “Santa” throughout. Matt Drudge is a fucking lying asshole.\*\* Get a grip. First of all, Santa doesn’t exist. Second, if Billy Bob Thornton does in fact play a department store Santa, it has something in common with Miracle on 34th Street. And last, we know that Drudge is a big time conservative, so rather than hiding behind some Santa charade, why don’t you just say that he’s full of shit and be done with it? The lengths that you guys go to to cover up what you really mean astonish me. Geez. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/3 "2003-11-17T05:38:19Z")
The piece is written so as to give the impression that Thornton is actually playing the character of “Santa Claus” and that Miramax is somehow corrupting that mythology through some sort of post-modern. amoral revisionism. The piece is deliberately misleading. It’s a slanderous attack on Miramax. It accuses them of something that is untrue. ---
**Author:** ![TheScourge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TheScourge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheScourge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/4 "2003-11-17T05:39:27Z")
And the thing is he isn’t even pulling off that fadora he lives to wear. What a tool. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/5 "2003-11-17T05:51:53Z")
> [@](#): > > BAD SANTA, featuring Santa Claus as you’ve never seen him before! > > Santa Claus, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is shown, drinking, sexing and robbing his way through the holidays. I’ve seen santa drink, sex, and rob his way through the holidays. Besides in real life, there was also _Trading Places_ 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![G-RAY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@G-RAY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-RAY)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/6 "2003-11-17T06:02:49Z")
I worked as a santa one christmas. After a day spent at a Santa-skate, a vist to an old folks home and a group home for developmentally delayed adults my “helpers” and I desperatly needed a drink. One of my elves had driven, sadly the older my elves got the longer their skirts were, so I didnt have a change of clothes so we went to the tavern in costume as we walked in there were two kids waitning for a bus on of them said “Santas gonna get drunk” and were the ever right. If you go into a bar dressed like a santa in December your drinks are free. So I guess I was an evil Santa too. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/7 "2003-11-17T06:06:19Z")
A friend of mine in high school swore she saw a horror movie featuring a killer Santa Claus. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/8 "2003-11-17T06:16:29Z")
[Silent Night, Deadly Night.](http://badmovies.org/movies/silentnight/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/9 "2003-11-17T06:21:55Z")
Yep, that was probably it. I wonder if maybe Drudge would make of Weird Al’s “The Night Santa Went Crazy” ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/10 "2003-11-17T06:27:20Z")
I must suggest David Sedaris’ Holidays on Ice to this thread. Just for his experiences as an elf. ---
**Author:** ![Snake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Snake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/11 "2003-11-17T06:34:59Z")
Yeah , but did you the report Santa did on Drudge ??? Sorry for being sarcastic. I suppose I should congratulate you for saving the world by exposing Drudge’s evil Santa Agenda. So … uh … thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/12 "2003-11-17T06:44:57Z")
It’s worth mentioning that when _Silent Night, Deadly Night_ was released, it caused a tremendous controversy because it was “desecrating” a childhood icon. I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if Drudge remembers that controversy, and is hoping that starting a new one will get more people to pay attention to him. ---
**Author:** ![musicguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/13 "2003-11-17T06:57:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snake \* > \*\*Yeah , but did you the report Santa did on Drudge ??? > > Sorry for being sarcastic. \*\* Is that sarcasm? I’m still looking for the sentence. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/14 "2003-11-17T07:34:35Z")
Did what on Drudge? The money shot? Maybe that’s what Matt keeps under that hat… ---
**Author:** ![Snake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Snake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/15 "2003-11-17T07:42:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by schplebordnik \* > \*\*Did what on Drudge? The money shot? Maybe that’s what Matt keeps under that hat… \*\* Now THAT would be news. " Santa and Drudge caught in gay love nest !" The arresting officer said Drudge looked like a glazed donut. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/16 "2003-11-17T08:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > **Matt Drudge: hysterical demagogue** Pope: Catholic Bear shit: in woods Sky: blue ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/17 "2003-11-17T13:28:25Z")
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! HO…[boot in face]…HO…HO.” ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/18 "2003-11-17T13:41:36Z")
I doubt very much that Matt Drudge really exists. Everybody knows parents just made him up. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/19 "2003-11-17T13:47:30Z")
I’m as Rightwing as anyone on the SDMB & I can’t stand Drudge. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648/20 "2003-11-17T14:02:54Z")
“Ho ho ho.” Santa’s a pimp. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-hysterical-demagogue/213648.md?page=2)