I am glad I read it. It was informative. It was not what it claimed to be.
I started on The Drudge Report, scanning the “headlines” and looking for something of interest. My eye focused on a title, “Atlanta Mayor Rising Star.” The picture showed a black man and knowing the history of Atlanta I assumed he would be a Democrat. Since I wonder who would be considered a rising star in the Democrat party I clicked the link.
It wasn’t about the mayor of Atlanta. It was about Bilderberg. Even the title, “Reed to participate in annual Bilderberg meeting,” continued the fantasy. After the first sentence, Reed was never mentioned again. I learned nothing about why he was considered a rising star or what he had done to earn that title. I did learn about the Bilderberg group.
That was worth the reading. I have always heard them mocked in the media. This was an unbiased report on this private group of thinkers that come together to discuss world issues. It is too bad that it was not billed that way.
I am finding this kind of thing on Drudge more often all the time. You can often not tell what the article is about by the way it is sold. Sometimes deception is a tool even on the right.
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You have to remember that the "journalists" at Drudge probably went to the same sort of universities as the ones at Mother Jones.
ReplyDeleteI often make the mistake of thinking just because someone has a "conservative" label that they are trustworthy instead of being just a little less sneaky. I think it was Reagan that said, "Trust, but verify."
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