The Drudge Report, which is pretty much in the bag for Trump, provides him yuuge generally favorable publicity at every turn, with “interpretive headline” links, often sensational, that push the right buttons, regardless of whether the actual story has much to recommend it, or is from a reliable source.
Having cautioned about that, it is a convenient source for lots of timely links to articles that conservatives need to know about. We still refer to it for the good it does, sensational tinge or not, but with eyes wide open about the headline game it plays and its selectivity.
So this morning there was a link to a story suggesting ballot stuffing and or extreme laxity in Utah’s caucuses yesterday, we think it an effort to de-legitimize Cruz’s overwhelming win (one of the few this season that was an outright win and not a plurality). The story link is no longer present on Drudge so we do not have it for you as such but darned if World Net Daily didn’t pick up on it. Their link and narrative promulgating and sensationalizing an accusation is:
Utah shenanigans: ‘Ballots handed around like napkins’
Here is a screen grab of the referenced blog site, an anything goes discussion board with apparently little or no filter as to veracity or authentication. There seems to be no original reporting.
We responded to the WND article referencing the site as follows:
