Drudge: The Supreme Court is Out to Get Me

One of the rather bizarre claims that Matt Drudge made in his interview with Alex Jones the other day is that a Supreme Court justice actually told him that they were out to get him and that they had the votes to eliminate his site's ability to use any quotes from other sites, or even share their headlines while linking to them. This would, of course, be the death of all blogging.

"I had a Supreme Court Justice come up to me and say to my face it is over for me. Matt, it is over for you, they've got the votes to enforce copyright laws, you're out of there. They're going to make it so you can't even use headlines. To have a Supreme Court Justice say that to my face, that it is over, they've got the votes. It means time is limited. Time is not forever, how many more moons and sunrises will you see in your life rise and fall, not that many, it is a small amount."​

There is absolutely nothing about this that rings true. I would bet everything I have that he is making it up out of thin air. It simply isn't the kind of thing any Supreme Court justice would say to someone. And this alleged statement makes no sense at all. Who is not enforcing copyright laws, exactly? Copyright laws explicitly allow quoting from articles written by others under the Fair Use doctrine and there has been no attempt anywhere that I am aware of to change that. There has been no case before the Supreme Court that would have led to such a result, nor is it easy to imagine one.

This sounds like a standard-issue right-wing lie to me. He doesn't say which one said that or where they encountered one another (Drudge doesn't exactly run in the same circles with Supreme Court justices). Since it was supposedly said in private, it is neither provable or disprovable. A perfect lie, but you'd really have to be naive to buy this nonsense.

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