Posted on 12/03/2019 4:30:36 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s one of the questions you’re not supposed to ask in public but everyone talks about in private: What’s going on with Matt Drudge?
For conservatives, the Drudge Report was a one-stop shop for news on the Internet starting in the late 1990s. When Matt first broke the scandal involving the President of the United States and an intern, his place at the top of alternative media, as it was called then, was secured.
As always, imitators followed. But none came close to combing as many news outlets and boiling down the essence of stories like Drudge.
That was his magic – he’d plow through stories and find the nugget buried 20 paragraphs down, then he’d rewrite the headline to reflect what the liberal outlets wanted to hide.
It wasn’t just Matt. When things blew up, he had help. Andrew Breitbart learned how to do the same by working for Drudge – a skeleton crew surfing the web, arming conservatives with the pieces of information the mainstream outlets wanted buried.
But something has changed.
How Drudge works is a mystery. I’ve known several people who have worked for him as editors, taking various shifts updating the site as news changes. None have any insights into who Matt Drudge is as a person or what is happening with the clear negative slant the site has taken toward President Donald Trump, a man who was helped into the White House, in no small part, by the coverage of the Drudge Report.
I asked a friend who worked with Matt on his TV show if he’d ever heard from him again, or if he could email him to meet up for lunch if he were in the same city, just to catch up. He said he wouldn’t hear back. Once you’re out, it seems like you’re out.
There are no insights to be gleaned from anything Matt has said publicly because he doesn’t say anything publicly. There’s a generic email address reporters submit their pieces to with the headline and the link in the hope that whoever is working that particular shift will post it to the site, but that’s it.
It doesn’t get a response, your piece either shows up on the Drudge Report or it doesn’t.
When Andrew Breitbart was alive, he showed me the emails that would roll into that address – it was an endless stream. Every website, liberal or conservative, and blog would send in their pieces. It was impossible to keep up with, but they somehow did it.
One time, when Andrew’s book “Righteous Indignation” was about to come out, he’d sent me an advance copy, which I’d read the night I got it. At about 5:00 am, I’d emailed Andrew telling him I really liked it. A minute later my phone rang, it was Andrew.
He had a bunch of questions about what I thought about this or that part, etc., the way any author is before their book comes out. I told him the only thing I wished was different was I wanted to know more about his relationship with Matt, which was only casually mentioned, almost in passing. Andrew told me he wished he could, but if he’d written one more word about him that Matt “would never speak to me again.”
To say he’s private is an understatement.
So as the Drudge Report turns more anti-Trump, we’re left to wonder why. Because Matt won’t say.
I did get a hint. I have a friend who is actual, real-life friends with Matt. I asked them what the deal is. After all, no website was more pro-Trump in 2016 than the Drudge Report. Matt even ventured to a debate to see it all firsthand. The answer was telling, if only because there’s so little to go on.
“Maybe he’s sick of nothing being done on the border,” was the gist of the answer.
If that’s the case, it would be good to know. Because the entire tone of the Drudge Report has changed. Stories about Trump’s failures, impeachment, and Democratic talking points dominate the coverage of the president. Headlines you’d expect to see on the Huffington Post are now in that familiar black text on white background.
If it’s just one issue, that seems incredibly petty. If it’s more, the audience that has made Matt Drudge a multimillionaire would like to know what it is. Since Drudge answers to no one, it’s unlikely we’ll ever know.
It would not surprise me if Drudge or Judge Napolitano made visits to Epstein’s island, ranch, or townhouse.
I would. He apparently just gifted a house to his middle age boyfriend. I don’t think he would have found much of interest on Epstein’s island.
Drudge is also obsessed with robot sex.
Use to go to Drudge 2-3 times a day, then 4 times a week, then twice a month, now once a month and I don’t stay long.
My hypothesis: He’s drugged out of his mind, spending 24 hours a day in bed like Howard Hughes or Brian Wilson, while the coterie of gay South Beach night club “pool boys” he allowed to take over his life run the shop and his home as they see fit.
Howard Hughes
Brian Wilson
Matt Drudge.
Anybody: Prove me wrong.
Anybody seen Drudge in public lately?
See 23. We’re on the same frequency.
Thanks
Drudge didn’t make news, he framed news.
Today with twitter and facebook (and FR and similar sites) news articles can be shared by any user.
Yahoo.com and MSN.com have copied Drudge’s old concept by loading biased presentations of the daily news at the top of their search engine pages (which are often pre-loaded as default on web browsers or by manufacturers).
Things like Rathergate and the recent ABC News p*ss yellow journalism report about “war in Syria” using Kentucky gun range footage were exposed by bloggers and forums, not Drudge or “news” agencies.
The Google Report
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/drudge-sold-out-to-big-tech/
Drudge was close with Ann Coulter. What changed her?
“Sold it to Goggle over a year ago.”
Yup. Drudge sold out for a big payday.
I ‘spect it’s been automated and Matt didn’t provide the algorithm.
So then go full never trump? You’d think the dude would shut his filthy mouth and cross his fingers.
It ALL needs to be exposed and prosecuted
Drudge used to be a “go to” for the latest news. It is no longer worth it, as it is now loaded with “fake news”.
I have always thought he got compromised. People had stuff on him and threatened to use it.
The Left will never forgive him for the Blue Dress, but they will use him until his usefulness is up.
Yep. Maybe he was an enthusiastic sampler of Pedophile Island.
I have read on FR that Bongingo is about to launch his own ‘Report’, that will pick up where Drudge left off. Ought to be great!
Nope. Would havr got more clicks being/staying pro-Trump. I go with the little boy compromise theory for both Drudge and Judge Nap.
The article said he “sold out” as in compromising/changing his values. Drudge still owns the site.
I also found FR through Drudge. Right after the Monica thing broke.
Somehow, it escaped me that Breitbart used to work for Drudge.
AFA Drudge being “private”, I recall him doing a presser at the National Press Club ~2000 or so.
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