There's a cliche about "Caesar's Wife." The wife of Caeser must be "above suspicion."
The same is true with sites like Michael Savage, Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These are sites in which Republicans and Conservatives would like to trust, and which Democrats should be able to come to to find out the truth about their elected officials.
So what did we get today?
On the Drudge report, there is a link to an article about a Pakistani "agent" who was a contributor to Obama, arrested.
But guess what. CLick on the link, go to the article at Politico, and this guy gave 500 whole dollars to Obama's campaign. He gave $5,000 to the Republican party!
Nor is he a spy. He's just an unregistered campaign contributor. Yet the headline composed - either by Drudge or a Drudge minion, tries to make it seem like he was a spy.
And I'm thinking to myself, does Drudge not think that poeople will click on that link, go to the original article, and read it? Does he not think that they're not intelligent enough to comprehend what they read and realize that they were a victim of the old "bait and switch"? This guy who was arrested gave thousands of dollars to the Republicans, and a few measly hundred to the Democrats.
An honest, unbiased headline would have pointed out - Republican Donor Arrested as Pakistani Agent. For Drudge to give any other headline is really disengenuous.
But this is not the first time it's happened. It's more egregious on the Michael Savage site, where headlines are inevitably rewritten in a pejorative way, and at least a third of the time, the article doesn't correspond to the headline at all.
But if someone doesn't have time to read the sites, but depends on the headlines to get their news of the day, how many of them are going to be swayed by those bogus headlines to believe the exact opposite of the truth?
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