Drudge links to a "Wiregate" story...finally!

Matt Drudge finally linked to a story discussing the mystery bulge!

Of course, he did not sully his page with mention of the controversy itself. The link (in red) featured these words:

UK GUARDIAN: 'John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?'...

Drudge is trying to convince his readers that anti-Bush writers are all bloodthirsty bastards. I should note that all three (yes, I said all three) of the persons named were of the right; Hinckley was the son of a Bush family friend.

The link went to this hilarious article by Charlie Brooker. A few excerpts:

Quite frankly, the man's either wired or mad. If it's the former, he should be flung out of office: tarred, feathered and kicked in the nuts. And if it's the latter, his behaviour goes beyond strange, and heads toward terrifying. He looks like he's listening to something we can't hear. He blinks, he mumbles, he lets a sentence trail off, starts a new one, then reverts back to whatever he was saying in the first place. Each time he recalls a statistic (either from memory or the voice in his head), he flashes us a dumb little smile, like a toddler proudly showing off its first bowel movement...

And then I start hunting around the internet, looking to see what the US media made of the whole "wire" debate. And they just let it die. They mentioned it in passing, called it a wacko conspiracy theory and moved on.

Yet whether it turns out to be true or not, right now it's certainly plausible - even if you discount the bulge photos and simply watch the president's ridiculous smirking face. Perhaps he isn't wired. Perhaps he's just gone gaga. If you don't ask the questions, you'll never know the truth.

The silence is all the more troubling since in the past the US news media has had no problem at all covering other wacko conspiracy theories, ones with far less evidence to support them.

That last bit works as a nice jab against double-standardized Drudge himself.

A suggestion, Mr. Brooker: Never joke about assassination. We cannot fairly castigate Ann Coulter for this sort of remark while at the same time exempting you. Aside from that ill-considered jest in the final paragraph, yours was a terrific article -- one of the best to come out of the "promptergate" controversy.