I know she’s Ivy League educated but Michelle Obama comes off as “cleaned up ghetto” to me. It’s not her race but just the fact that she is so very rough around the edges despite the designer clothes and good haircuts.

highhopes on June 18, 2008 at 9:07 PM

Very nice. You are not a racist. Go tell everybody.

He had a wrong-headed disdain for bloggers, but he was no lefty. How could he be in the tank for Obama?

I don’t like Cindy McCain. She comes off as cold, unapproachable, and unfriendly as her husband.

I thought that too, when I met Sen McCain before the primary, I found her to be very warm and engaging. May just be perception. She is also prettier in person, and much shorter (same for her husband, at least the shorter part).

I consider Drudge to be the most brilliant editor in my lifetime. He uses tabloid headlines because they work. He has talked about the hit getting ability of ’200 dogs in House of Filth’ tags.

Drudge carefully selects the news links for the ones with the zinger, the factoid you would not guess from the headline. It is like planting seeds. When you find the contradiction, or the underreported factoid it makes a bigger impression than if it was in the headline.

For instance he ran a couple links on the tomato scare, which is obviously under a news blackout, as the CDC can tell you what tomatos are safe, but cannot identify which are not safe, except as ‘Mexico and Florida’.

Mexican tomato growing is heavily invested with American Ag business and is killing Florida tomato farming. Drudge ran the usual story line, but the zinger was the Mexican shopper stocking up on marked down tomatos who said because Mexican tomatos are watered with sewer water he wash all his produce with bleach.

Drudge just had a page bottom link to a Chinese Peoples Daily article about our election, which makes McCain look very good and makes Obama look weak. That link was a gift for McCain. He didn’t need a headline for that one, since China-Election was an unusual teaser anyway.

The Cindy Unleashed headline is pure tabloid and makes you want to read the dish. You are led to an MSM interview that tries to get Cindy to diss Michelle. Instead, Cindy keeps falling back to her love of country. It was very Reaganesque and made Cindy look great. It ended with Cindy going on tour for a charity that gives plastic surgery to kids with birth defect faces.

That charity is seen on infomercials hosted by Rona Downey, (touched by an Angel) who weeps as the pathetic kids are saved by caring Americans. It is well known to couch potatos and gives Cindy a big boost with the Oprah crowd.

The headline ends up making Cindy look like a misunderstood underdog and softens her image. It is a great plus for the McCain campaign, not a negative. They should pay Drudge for the help.

I disagree. Drudge is a brilliant presenter of news. I consider him to be the cleverest editor in my lifetime. Drudge uses tabloid headlines to intrigue readers and get them to read articles they otherwise would not read.

Drudge has a mean grasp on the type of headlines that get the hits. He has talked about the proven hit count of ’200 dogs in House of filth’ tags.

For instance, he recently ran just a few of the many vague articles on the tomato salmonella scare. There is obviously a blackout on the source of the tomatos because the CDC is feeding out which tomatos you can eat but pretending it does not know which ones you cannot eat despite hundreds of victims.

But, Mexico and Florida are ‘suspect’. Mexico is the chief competitor for Florida tomato farmers, and American Ag is highly invested in Mexican tomato plantations. Drudge linked an article that contained the zinger, a quote from a Mexican buying the ‘banned’ tomatos that Mexican produce is routinely watered with sewer water.

Recently Drudge ran a teaser at page bottom about the Chinese People’s Daily discussing McCain and Obama, with a quote about McCain versus Obama that made McCain look very very good and made Obama look weak.

The ‘Cindy Unleashed’ headline points to a dull article that IMHO makes Cindy look not ‘unleashed’ but good in a Reaganesque way. The interviewer tries to get Cindy to diss Michelle, but Cindy keeps falling back on love of country, and the article winds up with Cindy on tour for a charity that helps people get facial surgery.

This is the same charity you can see in infomercials starring Roma Downey, with pathetic little birth defect kids given a new life by caring American doctors. That charity is well known to couch potatos who love Touched by an Angel, and is a great subtle boost for Cindy with the Oprah crowd.

Drudge aint stupid. He is brilliant. He never feeds overt proaganda. He plants seeds. He never hits below the belt.

The Cindy Unleashed headline makes the reader anticipate a bitch attack. When the reader finds Good Cindy instead, it plants doubt about mean-Cindy stories floated onto the web, and sets up the reader to see Cindy as an underdog being unfairly described as a bitch.

The underdog is where Cindy needs to be, because she has a cold image. Drudge did her and the McCain campaign a big favor.

Because Drudge is that smart.

I love reading him. It is like a brain teaser. He plants real gems if you look. If you don’t look for them, they will find you

CyberCipher on June 18, 2008 at 10:51 PM

Ha. I took a chance that you would catch that comment.

100% positive coverage of the Black Jesus / 100% negative Hillary, Mccain, and EVERYTHING else in the world. I mean, gimme a break. At least pretend to be fair.

I’m done with Drudge.

Domino on June 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM

Dittos. He appears to have sided rather than just report.
Not much different than the MSM

Cyber Cipher’s collie runs around here unleashed all the time.

Weight of Glory on June 18, 2008 at 8:17 PM

My collie says:

Er…not that there is anything wrong with that.

I saw it as Michelle trying to glom on to the respect and loving admiration the public has for Laura Bush no matter what they think of her husband.

highhopes on June 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Also, Laura cut her some slack about the “proud of America” comment.

juliesa on June 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM

Okay, you clearly have drunk the Kool-aid and believe all gthe lies that are the John McCain’s personality. So be it fut for the record, you really should note how McCain and his trophy wife come off to the public not that it was the truth.

Several people (independently) mentioned to me that Bill Clinton in person was a dynamic charismatic personality far beyond what you get in media coverage. If McCain and his wife fall in the same category I say that I’m glad to learn they actually have personality. That doesn’t mean it translates in the media.

I haven’t been there in some time. Very tired page.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-041408-cindy-mccain,0,5875170.story?page=1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951606847454685.html

profitsbeard on June 18, 2008 at 8:57 PM

I know she’s Ivy League educated but Michelle Obama comes off as “cleaned up ghetto” to me. It’s not her race but just the fact that she is so very rough around the edges despite the designer clothes and good haircuts.

She and her tyro protege Barry should go home and learn to become something more than world-class cliche polishers.

(And then please remain in the Chicago area.)

One embarrassing run for an office you are painfully not fit to hold is enough larding for anybody’s lifetime.