The Most Beautiful Drudge Report Ever

A sign of the times if ever I've seen one.  The top story on Drudge right now:

CBSNEWS POLL: 34% (which links to a CBS News story headlined Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low.

But what's even more amazing is the list of other stories.

* COAST GUARD RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT PORTS DEAL...

(more after the jump)

• *EXCLUSIVE* BUSH NOW ADMITS BIN LADEN HELPED HIM BEAT JOHN KERRY... (if that's not a dog-bites-man story I don't know what is)

• GOP Governors Say Bush Missteps Hurting...

• ABCNEWS: Disgraced Congressman's 'Bribery Menu' Revealed...

•  I hate to give the guy the traffic

  but it's fun to see some bad news for the GOP prominently displayed there for once.

  by William S Martin on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:00:47 PM PDT

  •  I agree.....

    I also hate to give him hits, but there is nothing else quite like it.

    Stories often break there first, he often runs stories that are unflattering to Bush, and well then, there are those times when he is clearly taking a cheap shot at some democrat, but still, there is enough there that warrants going there.

    by lrhoke on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:54:52 PM PDT

  •  Maybe he's switching sides...?

    Media tries to stay ahead of the polls to stay popular.  It wouldn't surprise me if he was in the process of switching sides as more of America does so.  

    So yeah give him traffic when he runs stuff like this.  Positive reinforcement for doing the right thing.  

    by G2geek on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 11:12:50 PM PDT

    •  It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way

      the wind is blowing.

      :-)

      by HoundDog on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 11:21:43 PM PDT

•  Poll effect

  What effect will this poll have on republicans in congress.  If I were them I would move quickly and vote a veto-proof bill to get this out of the news and fast.  

  by bassman on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:05:24 PM PDT

•  And some of those headlines...

  are...gasp... in red letters.

  Don't get too worried about traffic to Matt Sludge's site.  I think half of his readers are progressives going there for a quick run-down on the rethug talking points of the day.
  

  by lalo456987 on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:06:19 PM PDT

•  Still 1/3rd (1972 type style) of the people

  Can be fooled all of the time.  

  by deepsouthdoug on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:11:38 PM PDT

•  dear dog...

  .. The "BUSH NOW ADMITS" headline made me laugh and laugh and laugh... and then cry.

  by socratic on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:13:18 PM PDT

  •  When Cheney shot that dude in the face,

    a friend of mine said he laughed to the point of tears for a solid 10 minutes upon hearing the news. Funny story, but by God what does this say about the state of our pcyches these days when we laugh like maniacs at BushCos foibles.

    We are all a little bit ca-razy, methinks.

    by ablington on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:20:13 PM PDT

    •  I know the feeling..

      I hope this isn't a threadjack, but when I heard the news, I was disgusted.  As a gun-owner, I have been trained since I was a zygote to practice incredibly paranoid gun safety.  The laughter came later, and with some awkwardness, because I felt awful for Whittington.  From the beginning of that fiasco, I was telling people that the story in itself was a non-story, just an unfortunate, lurid tale.  But as an irrelevant but compelling (words I used before) example of incompetence..... well, it was worthy of old school SNL.  

      Just wish nobody had been shot in the process.

      by socratic on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:23:53 PM PDT

      •  Sometimes I feel that our Scheudenfreunde (sp)

        is getting uncontrollably out of hand. Yet I cannot help myself...

        by ablington on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:29:06 PM PDT

        •  Schadenfreude (eom)

          by mecki on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:39:43 PM PDT

      •  gun safety

        now that's funny

        by le sequoit on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 09:41:17 PM PDT

•  UBL

  Each time UBL does one of those tapes intending to sway an election, I always think of Reagan and how they got the Iranians to not release the hostages until after he won the election against Carter.  In the end, it seems like Rove has UBL on speed dial carrier pigeon and gets him to help Bush win.  His family did invest in Arbusto.  They don't seem to mind backing losing propostions.  As for Mehlman saying Kerry was about his ambition above anything else, like that's different from other politicians, especially Bush/Cheney?

  by ljm on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:24:45 PM PDT

  •  What makes you think

    the Bin Laden's lost money?  They weren't investing in oil by giving Bush money.  They were investing in political futures and their investment has paid off splendidly for them.

    by Geonomist on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:53:06 PM PDT

•  Bin Laden helped Bush

  because he wanted him to win.

  George W. Bush is the best thing that ever happened to Osama bin Laden...and vice versa.

  by Velvet Revolution on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 07:29:57 PM PDT

  •  Exactly;

    why wouldn't OBL know he was helping Bush?

    This guy masterminded the most successful special op since the Trojan Horse, but we're supposed to believe he "accidentally" helped Bush.

    It was selling our enemies short that got us here, and guess who hasn't learned.

    by le sequoit on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 09:46:50 PM PDT

•  how bout this one?

  linked to reuters - but if India is gonna be our new best friend, why does Dear Leader need 5,000 people to protect his sorry ass?

  Looks like he is #1 on the world's most wanted list.

  by clammyc on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:08:34 PM PDT

  •  Did he really say

    that he wasn't going to the Taj Mahal because the schedulers hadn't schedulted it?

    by MadRuth on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:14:50 PM PDT

•  Begging..please...

  don't ever use Beautiful and Drudge in the same sentence again.

  by Chamonix on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:13:06 PM PDT

  •  Well

    saying "the most beautiful Drudge report" is like saying "the most beautiful toxic dump". It's only relative.

    by MadRuth on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:17:46 PM PDT

    •  Thanks

      I was trying to think of a line like that.  Good job.

      by William S Martin on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 04:03:30 AM PDT

      •  Say, did you happen to see

        the most beautiful Drudge Report? And if you did, was he lying?

        by Del C on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 04:40:57 AM PDT

•  See what's happening here:

  It's all about self-preservation. Conservatives haven't seen the light, they are dumping ballast, and the first dead weight they are trying to throw overboard is the captain of their Ship of Fools. It's a simple question of maintaining their grip on power. If we keep up the pressure, the question becomes maintaining their relevance.

  Don't let up, don't give in. Drive them back to the margins of political thought from whence they came and where they always belonged.

  by The Crusty Bunker on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:16:46 PM PDT

•  Good lord...

  That reads like The Onion's version of the Sludge Report.

  by ogre on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 08:25:09 PM PDT

•  Drudge Report

  Is actually a pretty valuable resource.

  People love to knock the website but I think it's brilliant and manages to influence media coverage.

  Furthermore, as liberals we should hold our noses and visit it once in a while to keep get an early-warning system of what the Republicans are going to be spinning next.

  by diplomatic on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 12:43:10 AM PDT