Conservative blogger Matt Drudge doesn’t see killer winds and waves. He sees a left-wing conspiracy to push a climate-change agenda. He tweeted Thursday: “The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate.”
Bipartisan Report said: “Most people are being smart and taking the warnings seriously; others are making themselves look idiotic and laughing the dangers off. Matt Drudge, creator and editor of The Drudge Report, is one of the latter, suggesting that the warnings may be a conspiracy theory by the government.
“All day, Drudge has been posting tweets about Hurricane Matthew, but his aren’t like most other posts. It appears as if he thinks all the hype is simply the government lying to the people to push their agenda about climate change. Drudge is widely known to make some pretty outrageous statements, but this is some serious reaching, even for him.”
The BBC added: “Journalist Libby Nelson, writing for news website Vox, said there was ‘no evidence’ for Matt Drudge’s claims and that such conspiracy-mongering was ‘a dangerous game.’
“The implication of Drudge’s tweet is that resisting evacuation isn’t a bad, self-destructive move but a brave way for ‘deplorables’ to stand up for [sic] the government. That’s not just stupid – it could very well be deadly,” she said.
Sources of the media storm:
The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 6, 2016
Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 6, 2016
A surge of pushback: