Me too.
Drudge was being sued by Sidney Blumenthal. The GOP was on its last leg. Clinton was at the peak of power, on the verge of an unstoppable socialist agenda. We were headed into the Dark Ages.
Then Drudge posted his historic scoop on Saturday night and changed everything.
My in-laws were visiting during that weekend and we were having breakfast on Sunday morning. As we enjoyed our eggs and bacon, the topic of Clinton came up and we were having the usual debate. And I mentioned - by the way, Matt Drudge ran a story last night that Clinton is having sex with one of his interns.
Oh, you can't believe anything Drudge prints, they said. Don't be so sure, I replied.
A few days later, after Pete Baker's article in the Washington Post, they were having second thoughts. Maybe Drudge was right after all.
The amazing thing about Clinton's impeachment was the series of improbable events that led to it. If any one of them had not occurred, he would not have been impeached.
If Clinton had not dropped his pants and wagged his privates at Paula Jones years earlier, he would not have been impeached.
If Matt Drudge hadn't gotten a job at the CBS gift shop in Hollywood - no impeachment.
If Clinton hadn't dripped on his young intern's blue dress - no impeachment.
Clinton did get one lucky break - the bogus Danny Williams story. That helped to save him from conviction in the Senate.
Who says that was a lucky break? Wasn't the Danny WIlliams story run by one of the tabloids owned by the Evercore outfit run by Friend of Bill Altman?