![]() ![]() Or maybe, as those around Drudge whisper, the tribune from Takoma Park has lost heart, not just with former President Trump, like his friend Ann Coulter (no apostate from the message, just the messenger), but from the whole conservative dark-arts thing. Like Boris Johnson, fresh home this week from Moscow, Drudge has enjoyed better days atop of the conservative world. A lot has changed since the era when James Bond drove a tank through St. Lefties lived in fear of Drudge’s similarly aggressive content. Maybe it’s the revenge of “platform,” the Big Boys-the Times, the Journal, and the Post-in the cynical 2020s, awash in content, in contrast to the 1990s, seemingly starved of it (thanks to Drudge, a president was impeached for irrumation). Īmong the living, it’s undeniable that the position Drudge, Breitbart’s mentor, once occupied-breaking White House-shaking stories, tormenting Hillary Clinton, wielding the power of life or death over center-right websites, making Mitt Romney a presidential nominee, making Donald Trump a president-has seemingly waned. You might never have heard of it, but Kane assured me his two-man band (he had just one employee, the former Washington Examiner writer Spencer Neale, as of our conversation) was nipping at the heels, traffic-wise, at the namesake of that relentless Angeleno conservative provocateur, dead ten years ago next month. But crucially, this allows him to evade use of popular comments platform Disqus, which critics say is vulnerable to the kind of “corporate Stasi” concerns that now seemingly pervade most aspects of American life. To take a look at the site, it must be a prodigious amount of work - but he is fomenting what he says is the closest thing to a bonafide free speech zone left on the net he then deletes all posts after a few days. Central to his appeal, Kane tells me, is that in the post-Golden Age internet he manually monitors all comments, deleting only obscenities or calls to violence. But so far as I know, Kane runs a website, not a meth lab.Ĭitizen Free Press seeks to fill the space it believes the Drudge Report and maybe Breitbart have vacated. It’s fall 2021, but it’s a move still pulled in our present digital ubiquity-by seemingly ascendant scam callers, Mexican narcotics traffickers, ex-girlfriends, CIA agents, and people pretending to be CIA agents. ![]() LOS ANGELES-“Kane” calls me from an “unknown” number. ![]()
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