Stop What Your Doing! Drudge has sirens up! OSCARS DOWN!

[romantico]

Quick, we must go to RED ALERT!

http://www.drudgereport.com

[DearAbby]

1. Can you elaborate here....don't want to go to that slimey site

[GodlessBiker]

6. It looks like the ratings for the Oscars were down 6% from last year.

[AnnInLa]

2. Huh? We don't go there

so what does he have his bowels in an uproar about this time?

[applegrove]

3. He seems to be bragging that heartland viewership is down by

6%.

He is bragging to his WH masters: look how powerfull I am! Pay me, pay me, pay me!!

[jayfish]

4. The Ratings For The AA's...

were down 6% from last year. This is because Hollywood is out of touch with mainstream America. Of course 6% doesn't sound like mainstream anything.

Jay

EDIT: Post was meant as reply to DearAbby.

[aden_nak]

5. Viewership was down a whole 6%.

Which has nothing to do with the fact that most people saw, at best, one or two of the movies up for Best Picture.

[GodlessBiker]

10. I saw one. A bootleg copy of the Aviator. I wasn't impressed.

[Zynx]

13. The vast majority of people didn't see any of them.

You can statistically figure that out from ticket sales.

[chickenscratching]

7. geeeezzz

matt drudge is so ridiculous....always good for a laugh

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[CatWoman]

12. the fools are fooling the foolish

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3oo.htm

[Hobarticus]

17. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me...fool...won't get fooled again?

Aw, to hell with it.

:)

[Hobarticus]

9. Gasp! "Oscar party reeked of pot"!

Meanwhile, a few GIs died in Iraq today...

[edbermac]

15. "It's set to end at 6 a.m.," my source informed me."

"Well, this morning I know why. I received a phone call from one of Yorn and Whitesell's guests at 4:30 a.m. PST. Just think -- the Academy Awards show ended at 8:40 p.m. But the Yorn/Whitesell party is still in full swing. "It's set to end at 6 a.m.," my source informed me."

"The place reeks of pot. It's like a free for all. There are people in the Jacuzzi, and it's just wild."

I wonder if the source was that crack reporter Jeff Gannon...I'm sure it got pretty wild when he jumped in the jacuzzi...

[Hobarticus]

19. Ain't no party like a west coast party...

...cuz a west coast party don't stop!

Gannon couldn't make it, he must've been working.

:evilgrin:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

20. hey, Coolio!

when you see a young... well, i guess i had better stop there ;-)

theProdigal

[Hobarticus]

22. LOL!!!!!!!!

[chickenscratching]

34. and then his 2 inch schlong slapped in after him....

[chickenscratching]

35. how do you spell schlong anyway?

[LynneSin]

11. It was expected - no Billy Crystal or Big Movie Production like LOTR...

...it was expected - so what?

Still gets better ratings than "Everyone loves Raymond"

[Gman]

14. Another barrage fired in the Culture Wars

Its a constant thing.

[romantico]

18. The irony is

This morning & afternoon Drudge reported JUST THE OPPOSITE! He said they were up since 2000. make up your fucking mind Matt! Gee's!

[DearAbby]

16. Pifffffffffffft all over Drudge and his so called Siren alert

What a whore!

[mattclearing]

21. Is this the same heartland that delivered the election to Bush?

*ZZZZZzzzzzz*

[Vinca]

23. I'm hard pressed to think of anything more insignificant than the Oscars.

Or the Emmys. Or the Grammys. Or the Tonys. A fun night out, but of no consequence unless you're there.

[Lone Pawn]

24. Of course they were, but not because of the Blue-Red split.

It was because this year's movies really weren't as interesting. Last three years had Lord of the Rings movies--especially last year's sweep. Year before that, we had Crouching Tiger and Gladiator. This year we had MDB and Aviator. Neither of which were really that good. Aviator was little-seen and mediocre; MDB was little-seen and just a hair above mediocre.

[walldude]

25. Agreed, you can account for that 6%

from the D&D crowd who only watched last year for LOTR....

...besides, if Drudge were so powerful then his campaign to get rid of Chris Rock would have worked.

[Lone Pawn]

26. And there was a giant "WILL ROTK WIN IT ALL?" publicity-meme.

This year the only interesting thing was "Will Scorcese be snubbed again?" Both the 'contenders' sucked, and, when it came to actors, Foxx was a lock and the rest weren't particularly interesting.

[Missy Vixen]

31. The greatest movie we saw this year was

"Ray", closely followed by "Sideways". We still haven't seen "Million Dollar Baby" and "Aviator"; I can wait till they hit the DVD shelf. I am amazed at how many movies end up winning Oscars that are now gathering dust on DVD rental shelves across the country while other movies that won NOTHING ("Election," "Seabiscuit," "Love Actually") are watched over and over.

I was very surprised that Ray Charles evidently wanted his life portrayed honestly; I imagine most celebrities would prefer the "sanitized" version. His music lives on, that's for sure. Jamie Foxx did a wonderful job.

We couldn't stop laughing at "Sideways," and are still discussing it. I imagine it holds no relevance or fascination for anyone under 35, though (or anyone who's never had something in their lives go terribly, terribly "sideways".) Paul Giamatti was, again, robbed.

Julie

[Missy Vixen]

27. Color me shocked. No, SHOCKED!

Matt Drudge has nothing better to do.

In the meantime, people are using substances at a party? NOOOOOOOOO! I read the breathless and appalled account by FAUX' gossip maven. It seems that there were no A-list names at that party, but let's not let that stop the RNC-mandated Smearing of All Oscar Attendees(tm).

I'll bet there's never been a substance, illicit or not, used at a Republican party. Ohh, noooo. They also don't cheat on their wives with their aides or hire hookers.

Julie

[ldf]

28. well, i refuse to go to that site,

but i went to bed by 10:30. after two hours, and very few chuckles, i felt it wasn't worth it.

in MY opinion it was the most boring oscars in recent memory.

yeah, yeah, yeah, opinions are like rectal orifices......

i do try to make myself stay up for the big ones, but it never got off the ground last night.

edit it too ask, why did "today's headlines" on my google/iwon homepage on the internet say abc earned gold with the oscar telecast, wowing and zowing about chris rock, gushing over the increased viewership?

it seems now that has all been re-written.

[tinonedown]

29. No, numbers were up

Your source is Drudge? Overnight ratings out this morning were tops in five years.

[Sparkle]

30. But no siren for Gannongate?

What a wussified prick.

[tinonedown]

32. Okay, have the whole story now

Just saw the new AP story, national numbers down.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Clint Eastwood will be so dissappointed. The old man can't pack 'em

in like he use to.

BTW, how big was the lettering for Gannon? Drudge is a right-wing shiiiill, Drudge is a right-wing Shhhhhiiill. Drudge is a right-wing shiiiiiIIIIIllll, which no one can deny.

[zappaman]

36. Best Oscars Ever!

But only cuz I won $80 in the office pool...