Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 3:13 AM Pacific

The Which Drudge Blare Project, Post 'B' Scratch Edition

Drudge has lost his touch. He's now going freakishly hyperbolic with a strange headline linking to a heavily edited YouTube recording (complete with trippy visuals).

The headline claims something about how Barack Obama in 2001 said it was a tragedy that the Supreme Court didn't redistribute the wealth, but (a) the clip that he links to is heavily edited, so it's hard to know what is going on in the clip; and (b) to the extent that you can make anything out, Obama actually says the exact opposite of what Drudge claims.

The original clip is here, and it's an hour long.

This all comes on the heels of Drudge having pumped up the false 'B' hoax story; the only difference is that this time Drudge is linking to an audio source that seems to directly contract his headline. Last time, the story to which he linked merely undercut his headline.

I've now listening to about 11 minutes of the original, and so far Obama hasn't made any arguments in favor of an activist court; in fact, he's tended towards defending a conservative, less activist approach.

It'll be somewhat amusing to see how many people Drudge will bring down with his lies this time around.