Posted on 08/06/2020 9:27:47 AM PDT by rdb3
Many attribute President Trumps primary success over a talented field of challengers to the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge hopped on the Trump Train early and was unrelenting in his attacks on Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and anyone who could have threatened Donald Trumps ascension to the GOP nomination for president. Then, he turned his tens of millions of monthly visitors against Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. It worked. How much of that can be attributed to Drudge Report is debatable, but it was very likely significant.
Fast forward to President Trumps first term and the love has been lost. Many no longer consider him a conservative as his pages seemed to favor Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries and the site has been unabashedly anti-Trump since shortly after the President took office. His audience is dwindling, but curiosity over the extremely reclusive man has always been high.
A new book, The Drudge Revolution by Matthew Lysiak, exposes many elements of Drudges personal life, including confirmation of something that has been assumed for over a decade. Matt Drudge is gay. He has never officially come out and even had himself removed from lists of powerful gay people in the past. But this book appears to confirm it.
According to the books description:
The internet blogger equipped with no more than a high school education has been credited for everything from the impeachment of President Bill Clinton to the death of print news and the election of President Donald Trump. Carl Bernstein went so far as to call Drudge an influence unequaled in American politics.
But nearly 20 years after first bursting into the mainstream of American consciousness with his groundbreaking role in the investigation of President Clinton, remarkably little remains known about the man behind the keyboard or the improbable rise that ushered in a new era of media.
In The Drudge Revolution, investigative journalist and author of Newtown: An American Tragedy Matthew Lysiak pulls back the curtain on the worlds most powerful journalist, for the first time telling the inside story of how one mans visionary belief in the potential of the internet, coupled with the postFairness Doctrine growth of conservative talk radio and the rise of cable news and social media, created the perfect storm that seized the narrative from the mainstream media and ushered in the presidency of Donald Trump.
This may be the worst kept secret among the LGBTQ community, but Matt Drudge is reported to have been living a gay lifestyle since at least high school. Its not big news, but its interesting that hes never officially come out.
I don’t care a hoot whether he is gay or not. Actually, I prefer not to know because it if not my business. He is, however, not conservative and therefore I never look at his site.
Gay and bitchy.
Well, they are known to have mental health issues (aside from the obvious unnatural behavior), so it kind of is ...
I don’t care that he’s gay. I care that he’s a Trump-basher.
Not exactly breaking news.
Who really cares? I dont mean this in a derogatory way. Only trying to say it doesnt matter to me. And I doubt it matters to anyone else.
I do not want anyone to be a practicing homosexual, but he has been helpful to conservative causes over many years (Clintons sperm-covered dress!) and he is the only major news site that has a permanent link to Free Republic.
Matt, thanks for what help you did provide. We dont know if you sold the site or not for sure, but if you did, enjoy your financial reward and please make sure you are right with God.
So what?!
All freaks are equal! EQUAL, I tells ya! *SMIRK*
He's dead to me.
Has been, for quite some time.
Worthless turd.
Am I allowed to not care?
This is my shocked face... :-|
I thought he was an ovaphiliac.
No one with a brain.
Fags can do what they do sexually, but they can never be "married" by the Catholic Church.
Protestant Churches can do what they do.
The Church founded by Peter, recognizes, that we are all weak, but, butt slammers cannot procreate, and therefore cannot be man and wife.
In the USA, queers can do what they choose to do with each other, but cannot be man and wife.
1st time I saw him wearing that stupid pimp hat I thought: “he’s a homo”
Not news since this is 2020.
Well, that's an earth-shattering revelation...
...for folks who've been in a closet for the last 30 years.
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