{"id":130795,"date":"2019-10-28T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130795"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:49:11","slug":"why-has-drudge-gone-left-all-of-a-sudden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130795","title":{"rendered":"Why has Drudge gone <i>Left<\/i> all of a sudden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A short Internet conversation about the shift at the <em>DRUDGE REPORT<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>And especially on his Twitter page.<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130795\">SOTN<\/a> Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> The entire staff here at SOTN received this email when we were thinking the very same thing about Drudge and his swing leftward.\u00a0 It was as though he was purchased by either the dark side or <em>Deep State<\/em> or the CIA&#8217;s <em>Mockingbird Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see that there really is a very good explanation for Drudge going globalist.\u00a0 As follows:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>If you\u2019ve noticed that @DRUDGE_REPORT isn\u2019t the same any more, you\u2019re not alone.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A friend writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cRon, what is going on with @DRUDGE and his recently ending his decade long independent advertising agency for his website?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe recently signed on with a Google affiliated company, which purchased Matt Drudge\u2019s father\u2019s website, RefDesk, as part of the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFrankly, I\u2019m concerned this is the sole reason Drudge went mainstream and to the left: to satisfy his new advertising agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe agency is called Granite Cubed. The timing of when all this went down is not a coincidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a reader of the site daily for 15 years. His entire message, his \u2018tone and timbre\u2019 shifted \u2013 full-on establishment approved at the same time the deal was made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When I asked my friend if I could share this, he said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSure. Buzzfeed mentioned this months ago, but it got very little play. The Buzzfeed story on it was, oddly, and for the first time ever, a fluff piece for Drudge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBuzzfeed and its progeny have never once written about Drudge without a few gratuitous hits mocking his personal life or political views. Until now\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">SOURCE:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Drudge did an interview with AJ where he told us exactly that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That he has to play under certain guidelines or bad shit was going to happen to him and his.<\/p>\n<p>It was before AJ was censored, Drudge was just a voice in the interview they didn&#8217;t show his face.<\/p>\n<p>You should be able to google the interview where he spoke about it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a few years ago when he did it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I think this was the interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j3gtYiJukQc\">Matt Drudge Interviewed by Alex Jones in 2015 on Infowars (Video)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short Internet conversation about the shift at the DRUDGE REPORT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}