# Matt Drudge, You're Kind Of A Dope (Random Obama Hate)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 7, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548 "2011-09-07T22:42:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548/21 "2011-09-10T16:44:16Z")

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> [@What\_the](#):
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> It’s not ust Obama… I think most every negative story on Chicago could be matched with a comparable story somewhere else.

He’s been relentless with the “Chicagoland” tag and grouping of stories in recent months, with the clear implication that there’s an overarching unifying theme. He hasn’t done that with any other city I’m aware of.

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**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548/22 "2011-09-10T16:49:56Z")

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> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#):
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> Side debate: Team America world police is actually mocking the US ('s foreign policy). You haven’t watched much South Park have you?

**Bryan Ekers** said it better than I could. The climactic scene, with the “dicks vs. a\_\_holes” monologue and the gruesome annihilation of the entire Film Actors Guild (“Alec Baldwin, FAG”) shows that while there is satire of American foreign policy, they don’t really think the going alternatives are any better. And more to my point, Drudge idiotically posted the Paris terrorist outtakes from the opening scene as somehow suggesting that the movie would be promoting Islamist terrorism. The one thing you can say about that movie is that it has little to nothing positive to portray about Arab or Muslim religiosity or culture. “Dirka dirka! Muhammad jihad!” Which probably makes sense as they obviously don’t cotton to organized religion much.

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**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548/23 "2011-09-14T22:36:01Z")

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I note that Drudge has not yet gotten around to posting a link about Palin allegedly hitting it with Glen Rice. (No more or less relevant a story than CHICAGOLAND!).

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**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-drudge-youre-kind-of-a-dope-random-obama-hate/595548/24 "2011-09-15T03:50:26Z")

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> [@Dick\_Dastardly](#):
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> He knows his market and his market is, to a large extent, as dumb as shit and bearing a whole bunch of racial resentments. You hit the same buttons with them again and again – race, religion, anything that confirms liberal stereotypes, etc. – and the readers click the links.

This pretty much nails it. AS long as that audience exists and they don’t bother update their XML feed, Drudge will continue to be a useful idiot for the right.

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