Matt Drudge Still Can't Quit Bill Clinton...

Goebbels' Spawn.

You've heard about the gutless shenanigans emanating from the wretched right that resulted in the abhorrent treatment of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod. You know that the Obama White House, the NAACP, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and some--not all--of what's left of America's media were taken for a ride by Internet scumbag Andrew Breitbart. (If Breitbart is somehow unfamiliar to you, click here for more background on a schmuck.)

Breitbart, of course, is but one in a long (long) line of right-wing propagandists masquerading as truth-tellers. Too bad the Adults in Charge of Knowing Better don't.

Memo to Barack Obama: drop the bipartisan facade and fight the fuck back! And to the rest of you--the Cabinet Secretaries and civil rights organizations and actual newspeople: do your jobs and please--please--begin to actually be the Adults in Charge of Knowing Better...

Daily Dope: Matt Drudge

Matt Drudge Ponders The Big Issues.

When Matt Drudge Uses His Red Banner Headline, He's Probably Lying.

The New York Times reports on President Obama's just-announced nuclear weapons policy, and as usual, the hyperbolic Matt Drudge once again fails basic reading comprehension:

From the piece's second paragraph:

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.

The frothing right-wing talking point incubator is clearly attempting to paint Obama as a Commie pinko peacenik pacifist who will curtsey and bow before unilaterally disarming. Drudge is nothing if not entirely predictable.

Other excerpts:

Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.

It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.

“I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” Mr. Obama said during the interview in the Oval Office.

Mr. Obama’s new strategy is bound to be controversial, both among conservatives who have warned against diluting America’s most potent deterrent, and among liberals who were hoping for a blanket statement that America would never be the first to use nuclear weapons.

The most immediate test of the new strategy is likely to be in dealing with Iran, which has defied the international community by developing a nuclear program that it insists is peaceful but that the United States and its allies say is a precursor to weapons. Asked about the escalating confrontation with Iran, Mr. Obama said he was now convinced that “the current course they’re are on would provide them with nuclear weapons capabilities,” though he gave no timeline.

The full New York Times report is here.

Matt Drudge Has Nothing Left.

Geez, do you think you'll hear that l'il tagline again from the mimics on the right?

Conference Call.

Have you ever wondered how the cretinous drones in the right-wing echo chamber manage to sing from the same daily hymnal?

Here's a primer:

From the Washington Post:

In November, the morning after Election Day, a conservative blogger in Georgia blasted an e-mail to 65,000 people.

Erick Erickson's 5 a.m. "Morning Briefing" seemed counterintuitive -- the election of a Democrat to a U.S. House seat in Upstate New York held by

Republicans for more than a century, he wrote, was "a huge win for conservatives."

Yet the missive immediately was posted online by the conservative publication Human Events, a corporate sibling of Erickson's blog, RedState. It next reached the Web site of the American Spectator magazine, whose publisher, Alfred S. Regnery, sits on the board of the conservative publishing house that owns RedState and Human Events.

Ricocheting inside the Beltway, Erickson's analysis fueled discussion later that morning at two influential weekly meetings of D.C. conservatives. Next, it was endorsed by radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, considered by many conservatives the ultimate authority. "We kept a horrible Republican from possibly winning," Limbaugh said.

The ability of a single e-mail to shape a message illustrates the power of the conservative network -- loosely affiliated blogs, radio hosts, "tea-party" organizers and D.C. institutions that are binding together to fuel opposition to President Obama and, sometimes, to Republicans.

With the Democratic defeat in the recent special senatorial election in Massachusetts, engineered in part by tea-party activists working with several Beltway-based groups, the conservative movement is more energized than it has been in years.

It is also more unified. Disputes festered between economic and social conservatives during the Bush years, but they have eased amid what all sides decry as Obama's liberal agenda. "Nothing unites like a common enemy," said Colin Hanna, president of the conservative group Let Freedom Ring.

There's an echo in there.

More here.

Drudge Report Channels Mayan Calendar: The End Is Near!

I routinely point out the hyperbolic headlines on the Drudge Report, as that website acts as a pot-stirrer for the wide array of media mimics on the right-wing fringe. You can be sure that Obama's culturally respectful bow in Japan will be just the latest talking point for Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, et al, unlike their muted response to his predecessor's cozy canoodling with the oil-rich Saudis.

BTW, righties: isn't Osama bin Laden a Saudi?

Thought so...

UPDATE: Told ya the wingnuts wouldn't like it...at all.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Hell-Bent On Crazy.

That's the banner headline from the predictably hyperventilating teabag alert mechanism known as the Drudge Report, followed by the French-cuff cowboy himself on his homefield--Fox News:

Matt Drudge Is A Goddamn Liar.

But you knew that, right?

Here's President Obama's communications director Linda Douglass from the White House Office of Health Reform eliminating Drudge's lies regarding a fictional Obama plan to "eliminate" private coverage:

Here's the full transcript of Obama's remarks. Once again, Matt Drudge can't handle the truth.