There's a lot of irony in Matt Drudge accusing someone else of overly hyping a threat for political purposes. On Thursday afternoon, while Hurricane Matthew was still over the Bahamas, the political commentator and news aggregator tweeted skepticism about the dire warnings of weather forecasters. [Hurricane Matthew lashes Florida; emergencies declared in three states]But the political conspiracy at the heart of the idea is also worth calling out. [Drudge Report’s playing down and politicizing of Hurricane Matthew was ‘deplorable’]It's natural that Drudge's assumption would be that someone was hyping a threat for political purposes. Conservative Republicans were also the most likely to say that the news media was exaggerating the threat climate change poses.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2016 13:05 UTC