Unbelievable: The Once Conservative Drudge Report Is Now Fueling The Violent Riots
The Drudge Report used to be where one could get the “real” news but not anymore. Since 2019 the Drudge Report has turned into an anti-Trump, left-wing talking point website and now they are joining the mainstream media in fueling the violent riots.
Chaos broke out in Atlanta this weekend after a police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, who is an African America, after an incident in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, police responded to a complaint of a male in a vehicle “parked in the drive thru asleep, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle.” Police officer conducted a field sobriety test and Brooks failed. As the officer tried to place him under arrest he, “resisted and a struggle ensued,” during the struggle an officer deployed his taser, Brooks then, “grabbed and was in possession of” the taser.
“It has also been reported that the male subject was shot by an officer in the struggle over the Taser,” GBI’s statement on the incident detailed, providing another update on Saturday which affirmed “new videos” that “indicate that during a physical struggle with officers, Brooks obtained one of the officer’s Tasers and began to flee from the scene.”
“Officers pursued Brooks on foot and during the chase, Brooks turned and pointed the taser at the officer. The officer fired his weapon, striking Brooks,” GBI said.
That incident caused the city of Atlanta to erupt back into chaos. The incident forced the police chief to retire and the officer was than fired. Experts in law enforcement have analyzed the the shooting may be justified and in the plus 72 hours since the incident nobody has suggested criminally charging the officer.
With all the racial tension in the air this is what the Drudge Report put as a headline:
Outrageous headline by Drudge.
You won’t find this at @BonginoReport https://t.co/Znqd2SVytX pic.twitter.com/IGn85sCF4R— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) June 14, 2020
The conservative group, The Rasmussen Report has documented the change at the Drudge Report originally they thought the site was sold.
A few months ago the Rasmussen Report posted more evidence that Drudge sold the site or is no longer in charge of the content.
A Story Matt Drudge Would Crack:
We have no special knowledge of why The Drudge Report has changed so noticeably. But it has. Today we published 3 short “Backstory” Tweets highlighting why we believe Mr. Drudge is no longer managing the site. See our timeline for all 3. https://t.co/nvz8TF2ODj
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 8, 2019
Backstory: Matt Drudge knows other pollsters have Likely Voters screens but don’t spend the $$ required to keep them up year-round for political subjects. He always wanted to know what LIKELY VOTERS think.
So do we.
So do you.
Miss you, Matt. pic.twitter.com/AhqFVGnhKb
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 8, 2019
Backstory: While others were publishing shade-throwing click-bait headlines about our 2016 performance, Matt Drudge went out, found & published the first independent 3rd party 2016 election polling bench-marking.
Yet another reason Matt Drudge is missed.https://t.co/SAiXnqKc2F pic.twitter.com/NxR7OsRLRP
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 8, 2019
Backstory: Matt Drudge used to dig out these same 1st term, same-day Presidential approval comparison stats out of our data tables by hand & publish them.
We got the hint & automated the process. Just another reason we miss his visionary media instincts-https://t.co/SYmGBVQiFe pic.twitter.com/xTZOXB3ria
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 8, 2019
A few weeks after these posts from the Rasmussen Report, Matt Drudge was interviewed, he didn’t give his reasons but said his traffic is just fine. When asked about the shift on his website he basically said it’s my website I’ll do what I want.
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