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    Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps

    Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report

    How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire

    Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?

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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    Obama is has nothing on a friend of mine who is 6'2" and 160 with absolutely no effort.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    Maybe his wife is drawing out his life force, she keeps getting bigger, he gets smaller...
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    At state banquets, he just pushes his food around on his plate or hides it in his napkin
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    11/19/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: He's just not that hungry. Gawd. I told you, we totally ate earlier with Becky after security debrief.

    UGH! whydontyoujustleavemealone!?
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    11/19/09

    @paxcincinnatus: Does this Presidential Seal make me look fat?

    #tips

    #whydontyoujustleavemealone!?
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    11/19/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Presorexia, prexy prexy prexy

    #tips
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    I'd still hit it.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    I think we'd all be hard pressed to call Lindsay "healthy".
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    11/19/09

    @Poop Cooper: Yeah, that assertion is sort of a head-scratcher.
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    11/19/09

    @Poop Cooper: God she really used to be burning hot didn't she. Holy crap.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
    While I'm no longer completely enchanted with his politics, I'm still mesmerized by his torso. Oh, my.
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
    Any word on how the rest of us can get in on the Reuters action? One fell swoop and they could put the ailing AP to rest, like UPI. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
    Kudos to Beato for dredging this up. I wonder how he came across these legal docs. Also had no idea the amount of influence Drudge had on the cable news.

    The whole payment for linkage deal just goes to show what a wild west new media is. It's dirty, but because it's happening online, where the rules are being rewritten all the time, it's not as egregious as say, running paid content and calling it editorial. Though it's close. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire
    I think maybe Unkle billy doesn't understand Internet maths.

    This is interesting too. why no page views? #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
    I know this is long people but fascinating material, great reporting, and well written.

    Deserves more page views.

    (On which basis I assume Greg Beato is getting paid!) #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
    Really great work, Greg Beato. Good reporting and an amusing read too.

    I cannot fathom why Drudge commands such fealty that he's the one the media mob look to for their cues. It's deeply strange herd behavior, I suppose.

    Breitbart is just pure cretin, though. Glad you wrote this, fine work. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    @Baroness: It's hard for me to believe that Drudge has anywhere near the same influence he did 3-5 yrs ago.

    He still gets traffic but I don't think it's influencer traffic in the same way it used to be.

    I'm not saying I'm an influencer (or gold-digger) but I do know influencers. And I don't think people go there anymore.

    Am I wrong?

    And I agree that Breitbart is a simple villain. Drudge a more tragic figure. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    @jackbarber: I suspect the thing is, DC politics is the realm of the profoundly unhip, middle-aged pundit class. (See: Slate.)

    Drudge is stale as can be- amazing how an AOL account and a scoop on the Lewinsky thing can be parlayed into a fortune. DC insiders are incredibly conformist creatures of habit and the herd. It's rather clinical, this continued lavishing of praise on Drudge- who does no reporting of his own.

    He repackages and cuts and pastes things to give it the most Republican slant possible. I forget who said, "DC is wired for Republicans", but that's never been more true in the past year.

    The DC media loves to criticize every single thing Obama has said done, thought, wore, ate, relentlessly and every single day. The truly monstrous things that Bush got away with, some serious scandal, matters of war, life and death things, as well as the fiscal catastrophe he wrought- well, they're just good little Village soldiers. And Drudge is their mayor.

    Tragic figure? Drudge chose whatever sad life he made for himself, and his career as ankle-biting GOP shill doesn't inspire much sympathy here. A closeted gay man activally abetting the party stomping on gay rights is something I find contemptible, actually. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    @jackbarber: That's been pretty much my refrain to every "Drudge is so important post", I've encountered.

    I'd venture that right now, the overwhelming majority of those who read him are just a handful of bloggers, those who were lectured during recent terms in j-school, right-wing opinion makers and a few people from non-thinking media. Otherwise, I'd say that his "influence" is the knee-jerk way reporters and anchor list him, whenever somebody asks about websites.

    Though, you do have to give him (them) credit, if they've convinced Reuters to pay for worthless traffic. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/06/09

    @Baroness: re. Drudge I guess I'm a little less judgmental, at least immediately so. I think he might feel regret, and certainly some self-loathing. Life is long(ish) and I'll be interested to see where he comes out in the end. #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
    Excellent... Ex-cell-ent...

    Now, who pulls the strings at Reuters, and who are their friends? #andrewbreitbart
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    11/05/09

    In reply to How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire
    Monetize this better, please. Multiplying 1852 x 5 cents isn't going to tell the whole story, right? #andrewbreitbart
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Disagree on Perez and Arrington, but the rest sound pretty dead-on to me. Still, the Dark Lord will not be pleased.

    Perez's personality is the key to the site and the key to the media coverage: he's kind of like JT Leroy, except (alas) he actually exists. There's gotta be some money in that. His sister and whatever wankbloggers he can sucker into posting for him are worth money precisely and only because people can mistake their work for his. No Perez, no brand, no popularity. Authenticity, even or especially outrageous, offensive authenticity, is what the audience is responding to.

    Arrington is sort of a found comedy object among the geekerati, but otherwise not key to the success of his site.

    Moral: despotism pays. And Huffington and Denton should never shake hands, or the universe will explode.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    With $40+ million, one hopes Drudge would buy more than one hat. Or at least a new siren.
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    10/13/09

    @drewB: Hey, that's not fair -- sometimes he has TWO sirens on the site!
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