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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Drudge is Campaigning Again

In recent weeks, Matt Drudge at the Drudgereport.com has done everything he can to promote Mitt Romney in the GOP campaign. There has been no endorsement, rather a non-stop stream of first anti-Gingrich and now anti-Santorum articles. I keep looking for positive articles about Romney, but so far Drudge has not found many. Drudge is not shy about linking to the weird or the unfair; it is one of the things that makes his site so interesting. Nevertheless, by reprinting headlines as the link, his site and its tens of millions of visitors probably has more impact than most of the articles in question. Today brings a good example. That AP released a "news" story under the headline "Santorum Benefits from Mistaken Religious Identity". The article points out that Santorum is a Catholic who appeals to evangelicals. So far, no mistaken religious identity. Anyone who listens to Santorum for five minutes would know quickly he is a Catholic. Only once one gets halfway through the lengthy story, is there any hint of why the headline reads the way it does. It seems that some obscure newsletter ran an article entitled "Catholic politicians you thought were evangelical". That is the only place in the entire piece where any mention is made of someone mistaking Santorum's religion. So here is Drudge promoting the idea that there is a mistake with his religion on the basis of an AP article that actually does not say that.

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