Matt Drudge Pushes Outrage Button With N-Word Headline

dailybeast ^ | 12.13.2012 | Lloyd Grove

[Morgana]

Libertarian Internet impresario Matt Drudge, who delights in mischief above all else, is no doubt enjoying the sh*tstorm he created Wednesday by splashing the N-word seven times in bold capital letters (spelled out except for substituting “*” for the “i”) at the top of his Drudgereport.com homepage. DRUDGE REPORT

Matt Drudge from The Drudge Report. (Michael Caulfield/AP)

Other than going for shock and awe, Drudge’s purpose wasn’t entirely clear, although he linked his repetitively epithetic headline to a film review of Quentin Tarantino’s latest violent mockudrama, Django Unchained, about a mid-19th Century former slave (played by Jamie Foxx) who wreaks gory vengeance on the evil white masters of Dixie. Sort of Inglourious Basterds transferred from World War II Europe to the Old South.

Drudge, as usual, declined to comment on his incendiary exhibition —leaving tweeters, bloggers and pundits to boil in their own stew of outrage and confusion.

“I thought it was a really dumb headline, and without any context it becomes a really dumb conversation,” said cultural critic Touré, cohost of MSNBC’s The Cycle and author of the recent book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?. “What is being said here? Did Quentin Tarantino go on some kind of Michael Richards rage thing where he cursed out some black people? No, not at all.”

[a fool in paradise]

...we’re not mad at Hollywood for making it, we’re just mad at Drudge for reporting it....

Same as when executives got made at Charlton Heston for reading lyrics from the album Cop Killer at a shareholders' meeting.