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• ✈ SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations

  In the past few weeks, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200810210005">mediacritics havepostulated that Matt Drudge'sinfluence in setting the media's agenda -- which the ώm>Politico's John F. Harris and ώm>Time's Mark Halperin argue in ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperlisbn=9781400064472">ώm>The Way to Win:Taking the White House in 2008 hasbeen great --has waned this election cycle. In his continuingefforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted along series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports helinked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger GregSargent wrote in an October 31 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/media_figures_admitting_that_d.php" title="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/media_figures_admitting_that_d.php">post at TalkingPoints Memo, "Multipletimes this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence isin fact waning, these items, examples of which ώm>MediaMatters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that itshould be. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/29/20081029_153437.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/29/20081029_153437.htm">October 29 --World Seriesϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_001.jpg">suggestion that Sen. Barack Obamawas ⋞laying the World Series" with his purchase of 30 minutes ofnetwork airtime on October 29. In fact, as ώm>MediaMatters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290008" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290008"ϭocumented, ώm>The New York Timesreported in an October 28 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/us/politics/29obama.html"Ϫrticle thatȯox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, hadinitially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday's game to8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, sucha delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has startedbefore 8:30, and two started after 8:35." ώm>Politico's Ben Smith also ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Fox_exec_Obama_didnt_delay_baseball.htmlshowall">quoted a Fox broadcasting executivewho reportedly "negotiated the ad buy" as saying: ȫy nomeans did they the Obama campaign push to get us to accommodate them withGame Six of the World Series. ... We'rejust missing the pregame, which isn't a big deal for us. It was a businessdecision."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_062345.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_062345.htm">October 27 --Supreme Court "tragedy"Drudge featured the following false ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_134124.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/27/20081027_134124.htm">headline:� OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BYSUPREME COURT":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_002.jpg">ϋr />In fact, as the YouTube ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=iivL4c_3pck" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=iivL4c_3pck"Ϫudio that Drudgelinked to demonstrates, during a 2001 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp">interview onChicago Public Radio station WBEZ, Obama did not say it is a"tragedy" that the Supreme Court has not pursued wealthredistribution. The "tragedy" Obama identified was that the civilrights movement �me so court-focused" in trying to effectpolitical and economic justice. Obama stated: Ȫnd one of the -- I thinkthe tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rightsmovements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to losetrack of the political and community organizing, and activities on the groundthat are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which youbring about redistributive change."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008f=s_search">Numerous ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300018f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300018f=s_search">media ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290005f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810290005f=s_search"ϯigures ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018f=s_search"㻬hoedDrudge's false headline about Obama's 2001 remarks.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm">October ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm"㸣 -- PittsburghȪttack"<pϭuring the afternoon of October 23, Drudge seized on McCaincampaign volunteer Ashley Todd's allegations that a black man mugged herand, after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car, carved a ȫ"into her cheek. At 2:54 p.m. ET, Drudge reported Todd's allegationsas fact, posting on his website: "SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEERATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH,"along with another headline reading: " ɻ' CARVED INTO20-YEAR OLD WOMAN'S FACE... DEVELOPING..."Drudge did not initially link to a news report for thisclaim. From the Drudge Report at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_195410.htm"Ϣ:54 p.m. ET onOctober 23: ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_003.jpg"> by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh about the alleged attack. From theDrudge Report on October 23 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_202828.htm"ϣ:28 p.m. ET:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_004.jpg">He later ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm">posted a pictureof Todd with her purportedinjuries. From the Drudge Report on October 23 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/23/20081023_234003.htm"Ϧ:40 p.m. ET:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_005.jpg">Todd's claims were proven to be false on ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/report_mccain_volunteer_who_cl.php" title="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/report_mccain_volunteer_who_cl.php">October 24, whenTodd reportedly told police she made up her story. The ώm>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08299/922849-53.stm" title="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08299/922849-53.stm">reported on October 25 that"almost from the start, Pittsburgh police were skeptical about a youngwoman's claim that she had been mugged and a ɻ' carved into hercheek by an attacker who was provoked by the sight of a John McCain bumpersticker on her car."Theώm> Post-Gazetteadded that Todd's story "quickly became political fodder on theInternet and spread around the world, fueled by the presidential campaign andMs. Todd's political connections as a field representative for the CollegeRepublican National Committee and McCain volunteer. But in less than a day, theinternational story of a McCain volunteer being attacked, traumatized anddisfigured for her political beliefs deflated into a sad tale of a troubledwoman with a history of mental problems." The ώm>Post-Gazette wrote of Drudge: ϋlockquote>Todd's friend Dan Garcia took the widely published picture ofMs. Todd with her injuries. He said he took several photographs with a digitalcamera to document what had happened. He said he only gave copies of the photosto police and Ms. Todd's employer, the College Republicans. One photo appearedon The Drudge Report on Thursday, setting off a storm of media attention.Theώm> Post-Gazettewrote in an October 30 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08304/923935-192.stm" title="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08304/923935-192.stm"㻭itorial that the ȭrudgeReport made 20-year-old Ashley Todd an object of political fascination aroundthe country." ώmϯinancial Timesassociate editor John Gapper wrote in an October 29 ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076&page=1" title="http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076ɪmp;page=1"Ϫrticle: "Itwas a shocker in the tradition of Mr Drudge's scare stories and hyped-up triviaabout Democratic candidates in USpresidential campaigns, to go with past items about former Sen. John Edwards'$400 haircut and Sen. John Kerry's windsurfing. This time, however, it wasnot merely tendentious but false." Gapper ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ftnews_id=fto102920081546279076&page=2"�:"The Ashley Todd affair was the latest in a series of failures by MrDrudge to recapture the magic of the past, when the Drudge Report had anunrivalled grip on the media agenda." ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015">October 16 -- Gallup shockDrudge displayed the following lead ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/10/16/20081016_205808.htm">headline:"GALLUP SHOCK: 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN WITH LIKELY VOTERS":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_006.jpg">However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170015">noted, Drudge selectively cited onlyone of three findings from an October 13-15 Gallup daily tracking ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx">poll of thepresidential race -- the result that showed Obama holding his smallest leadover McCain. MSNBC's ώm>Morning Joeechoed Drudge by displaying the on-screen text "Gallup shock." ώm>New Republic contributorand statistician Nate Silver noted in an October 16 blog ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1016.html" title="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1016.html">post that Drudgehad Ȭherry-picked" polling results: ϋlockquote>With seven different daily trackingpolls to work with -- one of which releases three separate versions of itsmodel each day -- there is a lot to choose from for those who might seek tocherry-pick results.Slow news day, Matt If this is atwo-point race right now, I'll eat Drudge's fedora. None of the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php" title="http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php"ϭozen or so other pollsthat were in the field this week shows a race that close. Nor do either of the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx" title="http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx"Ϫlternate versions of Gallup's model,including the so-called Likely Voters II model that I find most credible.Drudge, of course, had no interest in featuring the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.zogby.com/" title="http://www.zogby.com/">Zogby poll, as he had for the pastseveral of days on his site, but which today showed Obama gaining ground.September 9-10 -- Lipstick on a pig<pϭrudge falselysuggested in lead headlines from September 9 through September 10 that Obamawas referring to Gov. Sarah Palin when he said: "You can put lipstick on apig; it's still a pig." As ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search">noted, onSeptember 9, Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_010122.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_010122.htm">placed the words"OBAMA: 'LIPSTICK ON A PIG, STILL A PIG' " under a picture of Palin.Then, on September 10, Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_140342.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/09/10/20080910_140342.htm">posted the leadheadline, "HOLY SOW!" under a picture of Palin:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_007.jpg">ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_008.jpg"><pϬontrary to Drudge's suggestion, Obama did not mentionPalin in at least the 65 words preceding his "lipstick on a pig"comment, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=s_search">noted. Indeed, Obama'spreceding comments consisted of what he described as a "list" ofMcCain's policies that Obama said were no different from President Bush's.Moreover, the expression "lipstick on a pig" is ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100035" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100035"Ϭommonpolitical rhetoric -- Obama hadreportedly used the expression in the past, and McCain himself used it in 2007in reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton's health-care proposal. of CNN's ώm>Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz said:"I seriously thought about passing up entirely this ridiculous,trumped-up, phony lipstick controversy. No one really seriously believes thatBarack Obama was talking about Sarah Palin when he used the well-worn barnyardphrase. Just about everyone knows it was essentially pushed along and made upby Drudge, Sean Hannity, and the ώm>New YorkPost, which endorsed McCain, by the way, in a front-pageeditorial." Kurtz, CNN special correspondent Frank Sesno, and ώm>Houston Chronicle White Housecorrespondent Julie Mason then ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809140003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809140003">went on to criticize the media for their reporting on the"lipstick" remarks. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm">July 24-ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/26/20080726_235636.htm">July 26"Obama scraps visit to wounded troops"Drudge furthered the myth that Obama did not visit woundedtroops on his trip to the Middle East and Europein July. A Drudge headline stated "Obama scraps visit to wounded troops..." and linked to a July24 Associated Press ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D924E4KO0&show_article=1" title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D924E4KO0ɪmp;show_article=1"Ϫrticle that reported "Obamascrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as partof his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because theDemocratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on acampaign-funded journey." From the Drudge Report on July 24 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/24/20080724_235353.htm"Ϧ:53 p.m. ET:<p𾫝itionally, a July 26 Drudge Report headline read"McCain camp: Obama shortchanged injured troops..." and linked to a July 26 AP ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/26/mccain_camp_obama_shortchanged_injured_troops/"Ϫrticle that reported "McCain'scampaign on Saturday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama forcanceling a visit to wounded troops in Germany. ...A new McCain ad that began airing Saturday in selected markets also chidesObama as disrespectful for making 'time to go to the gym' duringhis European visit while at the same time canceling the visit with woundedtroops." From the Drudge Report on July 26 at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/07/26/20080726_235636.htm"Ϧ:56 p.m. ET:However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807280003"ϭocumented, while Obama did not goto Landstuhl RegionalMedical Centerin Germany,Obama did visit wounded troops earlier in his trip overseas. Indeed, the July26 AP article Drudge linked to reported that the Obama campaign "notedthat the Illinois senator had visited troopsin Iraq and Afghanistan last week and had made numeroustrips to Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center." Obama also reportedly made phone calls to wounded soldiersat Landstuhl.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm">June 30 -- Obama, MoveOn.orgAs ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010003"ϭocumented,Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_searchblocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090007f=s_search">revivedthe ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_searchblocked::http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270007f=s_search"㻺lsehoodthat Obama did not condemn MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad about Gen. David Petraeus. Drudge ran the followingstring of headlines -- "Obama: I will never question others'patriotism..." Ȭriticizes MoveOn.org for 'General Betray Us'Ad..." "ώm>ώmϫUTDIDN'T VOTE TO CONDEMN AD..." From the DrudgeReport at ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/06/30/20080630_185545.htm"ϡ:55 p.m.ET on June 30:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_011.jpg">The "ώm>ώmϫUT DIDN'T VOTE TO CONDEMN AD..." headlinelinked to a September 20, 2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/clinton-dodd-vo.html" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/clinton-dodd-vo.html">post on ώm>ώm>USA Today'sOn Politics blog, which noted that Obama ȭid not vote on" an ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15fea" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15feahttp://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Files.Viewɪmp;FileStore_id=14e59d63-b0af-4842-b741-2055d5a15fea"Ϫmendment by Sen.John Cornyn R-TX that, in the words of the amendment, "repudiates theunwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist groupMoveon.org." However, while Obama ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00344" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00344"ϭid not vote on Cornyn'samendment, which passed, the ώm>ώm>USA Today blog post also reported: "The APsaid Obama did not vote on the resolution even though he had voted 'minutesearlier' for an alternative that condemned the MoveOn ad as an 'unwarrantedpersonal attack,' but also condemned attack ads that questioned the patriotismof Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., both Vietnamveterans." Indeed, Obama ώm>ώmϭid ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00343" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfmcongress=110&session=1&vote=00343">vote for an amendment offered by Sen.Barbara Boxer D-CA that condemned the ad, as well as other attacks on pastand present members of the armed forces.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_204901.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_204901.htm">March 3 --Ȫs far as I know"Drudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_142136.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/03/03/20080303_142136.htm">linked to onlinenews portal Breitbart.tv video ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.tv/p=55904" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.tv/p=55904"ϯootage from theMarch 2 edition of CBS' ώm>ώm㹠Minutes withthe headline "Hillary: Obama Not Muslim ώm>ώm>ɺs Far As I Know' ... ":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_012.jpg"><pϫut contrary toDrudge's suggestion that Sen. Hillary Clinton characterized the issue ofObama's religion as unresolved, Clintondid the opposite, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030004f=s_search"ϭocumented. Correspondent SteveKroft first asked Clinton,"You don't believe that Senator Obama is a Muslim" Clinton replied, "Of course not. I mean,that's -- you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on thebasis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubtthat." Kroft then asked, Ȫnd you said youɽ take Senator Obama athis word that he's not a Muslim."Clintonreplied, "Right. Right." Only after Kroft went on to ask, "Youdon't believe that he's a Muslim or implying, right," did Clinton respond, "No.No. Why would I No, ώm>there is nothing tobase that on, as far as I know" emphasis added.<pϯollowing Clinton's responseto Kroft's third query on the subject, Kroft said, "It's just scurrilous--" to which Clintonresponded, "Look, I have been the target of so many ridiculous rumors. Ihave a great deal of sympathy for anybody who gets, you know, smeared with thekind of rumors that go on all the time."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/01/22/20080122_220024.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2008/01/22/20080122_220024.htm">January 22 -- NiagaraFallsDrudge ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220010"㺺selessly suggestedin a headline that the children's psychiatric unit at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Centerclosed because Clinton was "neglecting" New York:In fact, ώm>The Buffalo News article that the headlinelinked to contained no mention of Clinton; rather, it reported that hospitalofficials attributed the closure to problems surrounding the way Medicaid isadministered by Niagara County.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/10/16/20071016_132906.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/10/16/20071016_132906.htm">November 16, 2007 -- Clinton"spied"<pϭrudge advanced the anonymously sourced allegation that Clinton "spied on political rivals" -- anallegation the Clintoncampaign has said is "ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710170002" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710170002"㻊tegoricallyuntrue." From the Drudge Report at 9:29 a.m. ET on November 16:ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_015.jpg">Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710180006#200710262" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200710180006#200710262">noted, in the book ώm>ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316017428.htm" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books/51/0316017426/index.html">Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions ofHillary Rodham Clinton, co-authors Jeff Gerth andDon Van Natta Jr. cited a single unnamed source describing events thatallegedly occurred 14 years earlier to claim that during the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton"listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation ofClinton critics plotting their next attack." Despite the book's releasein June, Drudge revived the anonymously sourced allegation months later.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/11/13/20071113_185015.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/11/13/20071113_185015.htm">November 13, 2007 -- Wolf Blitzer"warned"As ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200711140002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200711140002f=h_latest"ϭocumented, Drudge ran ananonymously sourced itemthat claimed CNN hostWolf Blitzer "has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on"Clinton and quoted an anonymous "top Clinton insider" saying,"This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy.... Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack." Drudgealso ran the lead headline: "WOLF WARNED: NO GANGING UP ON HILLARY INVEGAS!":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_016.jpg">However, Blitzer statedthat Drudge's claims were "not true" during the November 13,2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/sitroom.01.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/sitroom.01.html"㻭ition of CNN's ώm>The Situation Room. During the broadcast,CNN commentator Jack Cafferty said to Blitzer: "I was clicking on'The Drudge Report,' and there you are, big as life, in the middleof the Drudge Reportthis afternoon, with a headline suggesting that the Hillary Clinton campaign istrying to intimidate you before you moderate this big debate in Las Vegas.What's up with that" Blitzer replied: ϋlockquote><pϫLITZER: Not true. No one haspressured me. No one has threatened me. Noone is trying to intimidate me.... No one has evencalled me to try to pressure me or anything like that. ...I have no idea where it's coming from. I have no idea who generated this story, but I can tell you I have not felt anypressure whatsoever. <p�rty then said to Blitzer: "What about Drudge justrushing this thing onto the websitewithout knowing if it's true or not" Blitzer replied: "Well,that's another story."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/09/18/20070918_201653.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/09/18/20070918_201653.htm">September 18, 2007-- "Health insurance proof"<pϭrudge featured the lead headline "HEALTH INSURANCEPROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK" under a picture of Clinton:However, Drudge's headline was false, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180016" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180016"ϭocumented. The Associated Pressarticle to which the headline linked did not report that Clinton's proposed health-care ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/id=3329">plan would requirepeople to show proof of health insurance ȯor work." Rather, itreported that in an interview with the AP, Clinton said: Ȫt this point, we don'thave anything punitive that we have proposed" for people who do notpurchase health insurance as required by her plan. According to the article, Clinton also said,"We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be veryattractive to the vast majority of Americans." The AP article also statedthat Clinton "said she could envision a day when 'you have to show proofto your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview -- likewhen your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,' but saidsuch details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress."In a September 18, 2007, post on ώm>Time's Swampland blog -- headlined, "ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2007/09/18/why_drudge_is_a_disgrace/" title="Permanent Link to Why Drudge is a Disgrace">Why Drudge is a Disgrace"-- politicalcolumnist Joe Klein wrote: ϋlockquote>I knowthis is old news, but this guy is shameless. The headline, with a photo of athree-quarters crazed Hillary, is HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK butthe linked story says this: ϋlockquote><pϪt thispoint, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," thepresidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press."We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be veryattractive to the vast majority of Americans."Shesaid she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to youremployer that you're insured as a part of the job interview - like whenyour kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but saidsuch details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.Howstupid does he think we are Answer: Extremely dumbolic. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/28/20070828_125417.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/28/20070828_125417.htm"Ϫugust 28, 2007 --Clinton"supports national smoking ban"A Drudge headline falsely claimed that "HILLARYSUPPORTS NATIONAL SMOKING BAN... ":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_018.jpg">New York Post ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/hill_eyes_national_cig_curb.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/hill_eyes_national_cig_curb.htm"Ϫrticle with the headline,"Hill Eyes National Cig Curb." However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280014f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280014f=s_search"ϭocumented, thearticle did not say Clintonsupported a "national smoking ban." The ώm>Post actually reported: Ȫsked whether the feds shouldimpose a nationwide ban, Clintondeferred to local governments."ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/21/20070821_151712.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/21/20070821_151712.htm"Ϫugust 21, 2007 --"Obama wife slams Hillary"<pϭrudge's lead headline stated "OBAMA WIFE SLAMSHILLARY":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_019.jpg">The Drudge headline linked to an August 21, 2007, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.articlehttp://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.articlehttp://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.arti"Ϭolumn by the ώmϬhicago Sun-Times' Jennifer Hunter aboutMichelle Obama's remarks that "if you can't run your own house, youcertainly can't run the White House." Hunter asserted of MichelleObama's comment: "She didn't elaborate, but it could be interpretedas a swipe at the Clintons."However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708220002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708220002f=h_latest">noted, Hunterselectively cited Michelle Obama's remarks in claiming that they could be aboutthe Clintons.As Talking Point Memo's Greg Sargent ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/08/obama_spokesman_denies_michell.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/aug/21/obama_campaign_denies_michelles_speech_was_attack_on_hillaryhttp://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/aug/21/obama_campaign_denies_michelles">noted, Obama immediately went on to discuss measuresher family was taking to keep their children "grounded" while she andBarack Obama were campaigning, indicating that her comments were not areference to rival candidates but rather a statement about the efforts theywere making to ensure that their children will continue to Ȭomefirst." <p㺯ter stating, "Our view is that if you can't run yourown house, you certainly can't run the White House," Michelle Obamacontinued: "So we've adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girlsare first, so while he's Barack Obama traveling around, I do day trips"in order to be "home before bedtime." ώmϪtlantic associate editor Marc Ambinder ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.phphttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php">wrote that one"recurring theme of her stump speech" is "the hard choices sheand Sen. Obama have had to make about their work/family balance."Sargent wrote of suggestions that Obama was taking a swipeat Clinton:"The Obama campaign says this wasn't an attack on Hillary at all."Sargent added that Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton sent him a statementsaying: "The only family Mrs. Obama was referring to was the Obamafamily." Ambinder further ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.phphttp://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/michelle_obamas_swipe.php">noted that inhighlighting Hunter's column, "Matt Drudge has other designs, and you canbet that the cable news networks will follow." NBC political director Chuck Todd, deputy political directorMark Murray, and reporter Andrew Merten wrote in an August 21, 2007, blog ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/21/325945.aspx" title="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/21/325945.aspx">post onMSNBC.com's First Read that Drudge's headline was a"manufactured controversy" and Ȫppears to be a Drudge straw man": ϋlockquote>On his site now, ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereport.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.drudgereport.com/"ϭrudgehas this provocative headline: "Obama Wife Slams Hillary" It's takenfrom this ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article" target="_blank" title="http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article"Ϭhicago Sun-Times storytoday. ...There's just one problem: This allseems to be a manufactured controversy. For one thing, what Michelle Obama saidisn't anything new; in fact, it appears to be her stump speech. She said thison August 13, per the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D8R07N3O0&show_article=1" target="_blank" title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.phpid=D8R07N3O0ɪmp;show_article=1"ϪP. And also onAugust 16, per the ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/politics/17obama.htmlref=politics" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/politics/17obama.htmlref=politics">New York Times. Inboth instances, it appears she's talking about her own family and its values....In short, this appears to be a Drudgestraw man; the challenge for news divisions including our own is whether theyactually bite. ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/01/20070801_124159.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/08/01/20070801_124159.htm"Ϫugust 1, 2007 -- PakistanA Drudge lead headline claimed "WAR: COMMANDER OBAMAWOULD SEND TROOPS INTO PAKISTAN":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_020.jpg">The headline linked to an August 1, 2007, Associated Press ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536">report about a foreign policy ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.php" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.phphttp://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/remarks_of_senator_obama_the_w_1.php">speech that day byObama. However, Drudge's headline is a distortion of Obama'sremarks. Obama did not say he "would send troops into Pakistan"he said that "if we have actionable intelligence about high-valueterrorist targets and then-PakistaniPresident Pervez Musharrafwon't act, we will," without elaborating on how he would act. Furthermore,Obama ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708080009" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200708080009">never said he would declare"war" on Pakistan,as Drudge suggested.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/05/25/20070525_183152.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/05/25/20070525_183152.htm">May 25, 2007 --ȯlak Jacket"A Drudge headline read "McCain mocks Obama for notknowing how to spell ɿlak jacket' ..." and linked to a May 25, 2007, ώm>Hill ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/memorial-day-showdown-between-presidential-camps-2007-05-25.html" title="http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/memorial-day-showdown-between-presidential-camps-2007-05-25.html"Ϫrticle that reported McCain"took a shot at Obama for making a mistake in" a statement that dayin which Obama wrote ȯlack jacket":ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/drudge_021.jpg">However, as ώm>Media Mattersϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705260002f=h_latest" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705260002f=h_latest"ϭocumented,ȯlack" is an alternatespelling of ȯlak." Indeed, the phraseȯlack jacket" with a Ȭ" appears on dozens of militarywebsites.ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/03/11/20070311_132611.htm" title="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2007/03/11/20070311_132611.htm">March 11, 2007 --JFK of 2008A Drudge headline read "HILLARY: I'M THE JFK OF2008... ":The Drudge headline linked to a March 11, 2007, ώm>NewYork Post ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.phpurl=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007/news/nationalnews/hill__im_the_jfk_of_2008_nationalnews_maggie_haberman_post_correspondent.htm" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdhttp://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.phpurl=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007/news/nationalnews/hill__im_the_jfk_of_2008_nationalnews_maggie_haberman_post_correspondent.htmblocked::http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/p"Ϫrticle with theheadline "Hill: I'm the JFK of 2008." However, as ώm>Media Matters ϊ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703140001f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703140001f=s_search">noted, Clinton did not say shewas the John F. Kennedy of 2008. Instead, Clintonwas comparing the possibility of her becoming the first woman president toKennedy having become the first Catholic president. Following is the portion ofClinton's March10, 2007, speech duringwhich she addressed Kennedy: ϋlockquote>A lot of people back then duringformer President Kennedy's 1960 campaign said, "Well, you know Americawill never elect a Catholic as president," but those who gathered herealmost half a century ago knew better. ... So when people tell me, or when oneof the pundits says that "I don't think a woman can be electedpresident," I say, "We'll never know unless we try."
  2008-11-06 03:14:36

• Mailed Ads Have Become Mostly Negative, Experts Say

  They raise money through text messages and release videos directly to the Internet, but Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are relying on the old-fashioned U.S. Postal Service...
  2008-11-05 00:45:38

• Mailed Ads Have Become Mostly Negative, Experts Say

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  2008-10-27 15:11:19

• Make Face Time

  When was the last time you went to someone’s house to have a chat Or for that matter, called instead of text In an age when we have the ability to make connections around the world thanks to the internet, we find ourselves stripped of real social interaction. Texts and emails have turned phone calls into endangered species. And while it might be quicker to send a media message we miss what makes us unique on this planet. Social creatures need to make real energetic connections. We cling to our blackberry’s like our lives depend on it and have an extremely difficult time unplugging. No wonder we search for relaxation tips and ways to reduce stress!Sound familiar Well, today I was inspired sitting on the bus. I looked up to find an ad with a fabulous message for once!. Dentyne Ice gum unveiled it’s new ad campaign “Make Face Time.” Will this ad make me buy more Dentyne Ice Definitely not, but it does make me smile. Seriously, how rare is it to find an ad that has a decent message! Here are two of my favorite posters:Challenge yourself to unplug today!
  2008-10-25 05:47:18

• Ads That Built Google Could Now Pose Test

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• Largest collection of stone sculptures on Budha'e life displayed at Peshawar Museum

  Peshawar, Sept 15 ANI: The more-than-one-hundred-year old Peshawar Museum is these days displaying a unique and largest collection of architectural pieces telling the complete life story of Buddha, from his birth to death and his miracles.The four important events of Buddha's are his birth at Lumbini Garden, his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, his first sermon in the Deer Park and his death at Kusinara. All these events are symbolised by a lotus, a tree, a wheel or a deer and a stupa, respectively.The unique stone sculptures carved in Gandhara Art, reported the Daily Times.Saleh Muhammad, NWFP Archaeology and Museums director said that the major poses of Buddha in Peshawar Museum were "Dhayana Mudra" Medtation Pose, "Abhaya Mudra" Reassurance Pose, "Dharma Chakra Mudra" Turning of the Wheel of Law Pose, and "Bhumispersa Mudra" or Earth Touching Pose. The main Gandharan collection of Peshawar Museum came from excavations of the Archaeological Survey of India ASI, Frontier Circle from 1902 to 1941 and donations from public and purchases, the Pakistani daily quoted Saleh as saying.In the main hall of the museum, the antiques and sculptures put on display represent the stories, almost all the episodes on the life of Buddha from his birth to death.The Buddha's life story in stones is beautifully carved with all details from the Queen Maya's dream, interpretation of the dream, birth of Siddhartta historic Buddha, bath scene, seven steps, going to school, writing lessons, wrestling matches, palace life, marriage scene, renunciation, great departure, ascetic life, fasting, first meditation, demons attacks, attaining enlightenment, first sermon, death scene, cremation of Buddha, distribution of relics and construction of stupas on the relics, reported the Daily Times.The collection includes different types of architectural pieces, relics caskets, stupa models of schist and bronze, stucco sculptures, terracotta figurines, toiletry objects along with life size Buddha statues."The life stories of Buddha, depicted in Gandharan Art, are an authentic document of the Mahyana text composed during the time of Kanishka 1st Century AD," said Prof Fidaullah Sehrai, a renowned archaeologist and former director NWFP Department of Archaeology and Museums.Prof Sehrai said that the cosmopolitan art of Gandhara, with influences from Indian Greek, Roman and Persian artists, appeared in this region in 1st century BC for propagation of Buddhism through stone carved as well as images in stucco, terracotta and bronze. These images were placed in chapels of monasteries and in stupas across Gandhara region by Buddhist followers for worship.Prof Sehrai said in the old Buddhist art, the Buddha was not represented in human form but shown by symbols. ANI
  2008-09-15 01:00:00

• Ex-Yahoo execs take on brand ad network, raise funds - CNET News

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  2008-08-26 00:49:12

• Blogs to Riches: Perez Hilton Migrates Into Cosmetics, Fashion and Music

  <!--pageType= magazinesmallslug= mf_perezsection= techbizsubsection= peopleheadline= Perez Hilton Burned Up the Blogosphere. Now It's Cosmetics, Fashion&ampmdash;and Music.authorName= David BrownecreditType= photocredit= Jono Rotman-->&ltp>&ltstrong&gtMario Lavandeira hates to leave the house. He prefers to stay in his gated-community condo, which has all the charm and personality of a just-cleaned motel room, so he can torture the rich and famous from the safety of his computer. He's been up since 4 am, belly-crawling through the blogosphere to uncover juicy celebrity tidbits for his gossip site, &lta href="http://www.perezhilton.com"&gtPerezHilton.com. "I work 16, 17, 18 hours a day," he whines as he stuffs his pear-shaped torso into a black and yellow hoodie and matching track pants that make him look like a giant bumblebee. "I'm not exaggerating. That's &ltem&gtreally how much I work." &ltp&gtBut chubby Mario from Miami isn't the boss around here. The boss is Perez Hilton, his infamous alter ego. Like a queer-eyed Incredible Hulk, this raging diva persona took over the life of shy, schlubby Mario in 2005. In just three years, Hilton has smashed through the Hollywood elite, muscling his way from bottom-feeding blogger to up-and-coming entertainment-business power player.&ltp&gtThis particular spring morning hasn't turned up much news&ampmdash;no bold-named breakups, no leaked sex tapes, no tinted-limo treks to rehab. But Hilton has a hair appointment, and it's time to get going. So he throws a few celebrity crumbs to the 8 million devotees who rely on him for their daily dish. As usual, they're delivered in a writing style so breathless you need an inhaler to follow along. Choice samples from Hilton's oeuvre: &ltem&gtOMG! ... Justin Timberlake is box office POISON ... Jesse Jackson is in Deep Shiz ... Amy Winehouse! Her performance was a hot mess!"My site is for people just like me," he says as we bullet through West Hollywood in his Toyota Camry. "Regular folks."&ltp&gtOf course, most regular folks aren't greeted by name at the valet parking stand in front of this chic Beverly Hills beauty salon. Inside, a fawning hair stylist squeals, "My family in Arkansas just loves you!" She takes more than two and a half hours to coif his thick black hair into a spiky 'do with a Flock of Seagulls wave falling over one eye. As he admires the effect in the mirror, I'm reminded of a drawing I spotted above his living room sofa: Hilton as a grinning vampire perched atop the Hollywood sign. "I want to be the gay Latino Oprah," he says. "Anything is possible!"&ltp>&ltem&gtPerez Hilton as a bona fide celebrity OMG! which aired on VH1 to respectable ratings, followed by a nationally syndicated on-air gossip gig with ABC Radio. In early 2009, Hilton's first book, a satirical tell-all titled &ltcite&gtRed Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up With the Hiltons, will hit bookstores. Then there's the recently launched Hot Topic clothing and accessories line brace yourself for armies of teenage girls in &ltem&gtTeam Perez T-shirts and shiny pink Hilton-brand lip gloss.&ltp&gtNow the guy who prefers Bette Midler to Arcade Fire and knows all the lyrics to Paula Abdul's "Vibeology" is working with Warner Music to launch his own boutique label, with acts handpicked by the blogger himself. "Record labels release so much crap these days, I think I could do really well," he says as we head back to the condo. "Nothing coming out of &ltem&gtmy label will be crap. But if it &ltem&gtwere, it would just be a single. If there's one crap single that has the potential to make a shitload of money, I'd release it."&ltp&gtAs we pull up to a four-way stop, Hilton gasps. "Look! It's Seth Green!" Sure enough, the red-haired actor from &ltcite&gtAustin Powers sits in the next car, staring blankly out the window. "I should say hello to him," Hilton says, then pauses. "He should say hello to &ltem&gtme."&ltp>&ltstrong&gtThe blogs-to-riches story of Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. is the stuff of online legend. In 2004, during what he calls "the worst year of my life," he was a fame-obsessed loner who had just been fired from a reporting job at &ltcite&gtStar magazine. "It poisoned my soul," he says. Dreaming of becoming an actor, he moved from New York to LA, unemployed and broke. Too cheap to pay for Internet access at home, he set up shop at a local Coffee Bean &ampamp; Tea Leaf. There, enjoying the free Wi-Fi, he stumbled across a few personal blogs. He thought of writing an online diary of his own but concluded that his life was too boring.&ltdiv id="embed">&ltdiv id="pic" style="margin-bottom:12px;">&ltimg src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1609/mf_perez2_f.jpg" alt=""/>&ltdiv id="caption"&gtHilton and his fave act Girlicious at the MuchMusic Awards.&ltbr/>&ltem&gtPhoto: Getty&ltp&gtThen he had what his idol, Ms. Winfrey, would call his &ltem&gta-ha moment: He realized that it was easier to be a famous blogger than a famous actor&ampmdash;all you needed was an oversize persona to stand out from the keystroking horde. In September 2004, he set up a free site using Blogger, chose a bland beige template, and began tapping out his musings. Over the course of a year, they evolved into what is now the hot-pink PerezHilton.com. The site's original name, PageSixSixSix.com, had to be changed after the &ltcite&gtNew York Post, home to the "Page Six" gossip column, filed a lawsuit.&ltp&gtSnarky celebrity-focused news sites were nothing new, but Hilton delivered his as childlike graffiti scrawled over photos. Even in Hollywood, his vicious, eye-clawing approach stood out. Two of the site's more benign entries: "L. Ron wuz here," scribbled over a shot of Tom Cruise, and the word "Fake" branded on the breasts of actress and reality show regular Brigitte Nielsen. He also became known for having the juiciest pictures, most of them pilfered from other sites. The result was a lot of traffic and a few lawsuits from photo agencies. "Perez is the outsider&ampmdash;the gay, the Latino, the interloper," he says of his persona. "And Hilton is the mainstream&ampmdash;Hollywood, pop culture. So I'm this outsider commenting on this wacky world of celebrity who managed to become an insider but is still, in many ways, the ultimate outsider."&ltp&gtIn the hands of Hilton, the outrageous antics of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton the ubiquitous, ridiculous celebutante and inspiration for Hilton's garish nom de guerre are distilled into photo-driven, text-message-length morality plays gleefully deconstructed and critiqued by his legion of &ltcite&gtUs Weekly-loving, mostly female fans. He promoted his site by posting a bulletin on Friendster; soon PerezHilton.com was generating 20,000 pageviews a month.&ltp&gtThe reaction from mainstream media was immediate and scathing: &ltcite&gtThe Insider, a tabloid TV show, dubbed his site "the most-hated in Hollywood" for its tacky takedowns of untouchable stars. Old media attacked Hilton's integrity is he a journalist or just a pathetic celeb-hound with a blog, and other bloggers derided his oily, relentlessly self-promoting manner. One site referred to him as a "professional canker sore."&ltp&gtBut the scorn only boosted his traffic. Within a year, monthly pageviews had topped a million. "Without the attention from the mainstream media, I'd probably be seen as just another gossip site," he says. "Anyway, it's not gossip&ampmdash;it's celebrity news. It's &ltem&gtfacts." And Hilton seems to relish the notoriety, Googling himself daily to see what people are saying about him. "The fact that they attack me on my own Web site and leave all these negative comments keeps my head in check," he says. "I'm happier this way than if I was universally adored&ampmdash;like Reese Witherspoon."&ltp&gtCritics are one thing, copycats are another. In July, Hilton filed a lawsuit against &lta href="http://perezrevenge.com"&gtperezrevenge.com, an uncannily similar celebrity site which also pokes fun at Hilton, claiming, among other things, trademark infringement and cybersquatting. "Don't dish it if you can't take it, my friend," responded the editor on the Web site.&ltp&gtSomehow, Hilton has converted notoriety into legitimacy. In 2006, he pitched a reality show based on his day-to-day activities&ampmdash;blogging and bitching about celebrities&ampmdash;and VH1 snapped it up. When he announced on his site, incorrectly, that Fidel Castro was dead Hilton's family fled Cuba for Florida in the '60s, the Huffington Post and the Drudge Report picked up the item albeit with skepticism. When Bloomberg invited him to be its guest at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, he was seated next to Tracey Ullman, who gushed, "I read your site every day!" For his LA-based novel, &ltcite&gtBright Shiny Morning, author James Frey interviewed Hilton and modeled the character of a flamboyant gossip monger on him.&ltp&gtNot that Hilton needs the publicity. Ads on his homepage fetch up to $54,000 a day, and his overhead is minimal&ampmdash;his only employee is his sister Barby, who fields emails and corrects typos. Which means he's pulling down millions a year. The site now averages 198 million pageviews a month, according to the Web ratings service Quantcast. Nielsen Online estimates that while visitors to &lta href="http://www.tmz.com"&gtTMZ.com, one of his main competitors, stay only 15 minutes, those on Hilton's site linger for 45 minutes.&ltp&gtThat kind of stickiness confers influence. When Hilton posted tracks by an unknown singer-songwriter named Eric Hutchinson, thousands of fans rushed to iTunes to download the album. Three months later, Warner Music signed Hutchinson&ampmdash;and began sniffing around Hilton. "Maybe it speaks to the music industry's desperation," muses an employee of a rival company, "but we want to make the new media our friend." Soon, Hilton and Warner were talking boutique label and a $100,000 advance against an even profit split for his discoveries the deal's not done yet, and Warner has declined to comment. "Because he gets so many hits and he's on TV and the radio, he can be helpful with lesser-known acts," concedes one major-label publicist. "In that respect, he's valued."&ltp&gtIf the Warner deal falls through, Hilton insists he'll start a label on his own within the year. "I remember running into Perez at a restaurant while we were midway through the TV show," recalls Jeff Olde, a VH1 executive, "and he was meeting with someone about his own record deal. That's when I realized this is one very ambitious guy."&ltp>&ltstrong&gtAt 5 o'clock the following evening, Hilton is changing out of his Peanuts pajamas for another big outing. He's been invited by KIIS FM to appear at the radio station's concert in Irvine, featuring Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. "I can go to an event like this and get more addresses for my address book and bring a lot of opportunities my way," he says as the black town car pulls up to the amphitheater. "But now, the people come up to &ltem&gtme. "&ltp&gtAs Hilton steps out of the car wearing a yellow T-shirt reading "Hot Mess", Perez-mania erupts. A young woman at check-in gushes, "Your site is my favorite!" A concert rep leads him to the red carpet, where an &ltcite&gtAccess Hollywood reporter sticks a microphone in his face as paparazzi snap his photo. Hilton is then whisked into a VIP goody-bag tent, where he's laden with free jeans, T-shirts, and self-tanning lotion. Back outside, he's approached by TV producers and a radio station executive eager to have him on the air.&ltp>"For me, it's just work," Hilton says of all the fuss. But occasionally he seems to miss the safety of being Mario, the socially awkward recluse. At one point in the evening he retreats to a mostly empty tent, takes a seat, and calmly eats the low-fat fish-and-rice dinner he has brought in a plastic container.&ltp&gtThen it's time for Hilton and a local radio personality to do their bit. Security guards lead them to seats in the middle of the amphitheater. A camera zooms in and transmits their images to large screens above the stage. Perez Hilton is on. "Lindsay Lohan is in the house!" he bellows to the assembled teenyboppers. "And she's &ltem&gtdrunk!" And then: "I just saw the Danity Kane girls&ampmdash;I think they're &ltem&gtscared of me!"&ltp&gtOn the way home, Hilton is still on fire. "I'm so fucking jealous of Seacrest!" he shouts, referring to the &ltcite&gtAmerican Idol host, who was also at the show. "He helicoptered in and out!" But it's not hard to imagine Hilton taking off in a chopper himself one day, heading skyward as the rest of us scratch our heads, wondering how he ever got up there.&ltp>&ltem&gtDavid Browne &lta href="mailto:david@david-browne.com"&gtdavid@david-browne.com &ltem&gtwrote about the death of the music album in issue 15.03.&ltbr style="clear: both;"/> &lta style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.phphfmm=v2:c8aaac85371c0f42c0675d2c56a82a2e:AY3lJHCuQ0lMhQ6+uFqEjQHIku/yb+Piise+rFBDyaLBYqrOvWhPwpFK4FaJor/SBFIJ3l+FxTApdjPqSSiK2061VHLzHgLFsjDdQvxs5bM='>&ltimg border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'/> &lta style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.phphfmm=v2:737797ab315438989bde4f910d5a9dcc:Dx0EoW/pzauVu5xYCU7/9N24syyX8/l3Mfzj3tkl2suJEl6qGVq/RfcUCXe9s1z1OZ7DIX79dj2v49Ix+ta35FYuo35C7QlyzW6Rz9VeMm8='>&ltimg border='0' title='Add to Yahoo My Web' alt='Add to Yahoo My Web' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/yahoo.png'/> &lta style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.phphfmm=v2:7bcf62e16ce82f9c4116ce51bdb67ef8:OMviAWIpnMWFqlBPjqXDkCvgIHrHkUGbQEs5UknrisQ6ueVpbN9hmKIlNlxNJnVsCslrgPCBzbXoJstRxW4J90Dc2Dnc6aRKNN2t3DSYf50='>&ltimg border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'/> &lta style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.phphfmm=v2:43c52e8422ffe20c0ca77d30bc6c33b0:wJBmmILqi0JIKLhd6XZlDU+cYC2EmhyCd51ji50YsYz268sn+8QBSal4GMoumB+y1JRy2DD2oCjxGG/mCrBFsN6zvXKQG2MtsZeGNtLl5Mw='>&ltimg border='0' title='Survey' alt='Survey' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/poll_survey.png'/>&ltbr style="clear: both;"/> &ltimg alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdoi=4ac5061ea492dbc911d5a1c9356d8d1a" height="1" />&ltimg src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.phpi=4ac5061ea492dbc911d5a1c9356d8d1a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" alt=""/>&ltdiv class="feedflare">&lta href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbiza=1MIM8K">&ltimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbizi=1MIM8K" border="0"> &lta href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbiza=JEEOYk">&ltimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbizi=JEEOYk" border="0"> &lta href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbiza=BHEv4k">&ltimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbizi=BHEv4k" border="0"> &lta href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbiza=nQDPfK">&ltimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/techbizi=nQDPfK" border="0">&ltimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~4/370586631" height="1" />
  2008-08-21 16:17:24

• How can you Earn Money by Paid Surveys

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  2008-08-21 14:54:19

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