Drudge's Latest Shocker

Is Matt Drudge getting desperate over a likely McCain defeat? Last week, he floated a bogus story about an attack on a McCain staffer. Today, the Drudge Report blares this headline: “2001: Obama Tragedy that ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ Not Pursued by Supreme Court”—a meme that the McCain campaign has already seized. Andrew Sullivan notes how blatantly Drudge takes Obama’s quote out of context. “The ‘tragedy,’ in Obama’s telling, is that the civil rights movement was too court-focused. He was making a case against using courts to implement broad social goals—which is, last time I checked, the conservative position.” Sullivan provides the Obama quote in its entirety, so you can judge for yourself.