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~ EXCERPT ~ On Tuesday, Matt Drudge ran a headline about the weakening U.S. dollar on his website, Drudgereport.com. In and of itself, that would be unremarkable, except that it was the 18th time Drudge had posted a link to a story about the weak dollar this month. And October was only 20 days old. Clearly, Matt Drudge has developed a fascination with the declining U.S. dollar. “He’s fixated on it,” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “There’s no question that Drudge can alter what people are paying attention to.” Market watchers...

... Charges that he has had extra-marital affair. So what? Who cares? I know I'm a little bit late on posting this vanity and I know that some people may read into this thread more than I intended but here goes. I just wish that all the Freepers posting negative remarks about Bill Clinton's sexual escapades would just shut up. The next time I see some Freeper post yet another news story regarding the rumors of Clinton's infidelity, I'm gonna go find and post a picture of the "Aw Jeez" guy. Don't you know that any and all of the...

At the beginning of the summer, the press considered the Drudge Report so influential that its proprietor, Matt Drudge, was thought to be in position to determine the fall election's results. Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith of Politico wrote that he had "an uncanny ability to drive the national conversation" and quoted Mitt Romney's press secretary saying that Drudge "serves as an assignment editor for the national press corps." In a piece titled "How Matt Drudge Rules the (Political) World," Washingtonpost.com reporter Chris Cillizza wrote that Drudge and his site "sit at the junction of politics and journalism in the...

CONGRATULATIONS MATT FROM YOUR FANS ON FR!!!

In 2006, Mark Halperin, then with ABC News, and John Harris, then with the Washington Post, wrote an astute book on U.S. politics titled "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008." In one of their more provocative -- and widely noted -- assertions, they wrote, "Matt Drudge rules our world." They elaborated over many pages, but their point came down to this: "With the exception of the Associated Press, there is no outlet other than the Drudge Report whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts." In the...

<p>The difference between going through a Sunday as a married woman versus as a single gal is striking. First of all, in my single hood days in D.C., I’d be arriving back at my condo in the wee hours of the morning and would sleep and nurse a hangover for the rest of the day. As a married woman and mom in suburban Maryland, my Sundays are quiet and mainly consist of doing things with my family or around the house. However, during football season my husband and son normally get involved with sports and “NFL Sunday” for the whole day, giving me precious time to myself. During this “precious time”, I read the newspapers, watch news programs on T.V. and other media, and listen to talk radio for the entire afternoon and evening. Until recently.</p>

There's little debate that Matt Drudge and his eponymous website sit at the junction of politics and journalism in the modern media age. SNIP And yet, for anyone who follows the day in, day out nitty-gritty of campaign politics (as we do) it is well worth reminding yourself of how much power Drudge has to push a particular storyline or a broader narrative in the race. SNIP "Drudge has become center court at Wimbledon," said Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant and adviser to former governor Mitt Romney's presidential bid. "If it doesn't happen there, it doesn't happen." What explains...

It’s been 10 years since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But the way it broke changed the way the news cycle functioned and has had a profound impact on the business of media. In 1998, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff leaked the Lewinsky story to Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report. The story took off from there, and the rest is history. But a decade later, Isikoff said he doesn’t think Drudge is the player he once was. “I’d say he is much less of a factor than he was five years ago,” Isikoff said. “I think he has lost a little bit of...

One current permathread on Big Orange is that Krugman and Obama are feuding or having a vendetta. Which, when you take a step back, is bizarre. That movement conservatives and Villagers like stone Bush enabler William Kristol, like David Brooks, Broderella, and Andrew Sullivan are all good with Obama isn’t even mentioned in passing by Obama’s fan base. And yet those same enthusiasts spend inordinate amounts of time vilifying Paul Krugman, a true progressive who was there for us from the earliest dark days of the Bush regime. Curious. What’s really happening? Krugman doesn’t have a problem with Obama; Krugman...

He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions.

WHEN Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner revealed in a recent column that he'd soon be changing his name to Christine Daniels, the piece quickly became the No. 1 draw on the newspaper's website. From across cyberspace the readers came. Overwhelmingly, they arrived after spotting this titillating link on a news site called the Drudge Report: "L.A. Times Shock: 'I am a Transsexual Sportswriter.' " Hard not to click on that one. "I knew this would play big in Los Angeles, but I was getting e-mails from Australia, Canada, Turkey, England, France, all across Europe," the veteran sportswriter says. By...

John McCain's "Bomb Iran" scandal almost never happened.  The reporters covering the Murrells Inlet, S.C., rally last month, where McCain jokingly parodied the old Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann" with the words "Bomb Iran," didn't think the joke was news. Only one writer, Scott Harper, from the local Georgetown Times, mentioned it in his story, and he relegated it to the 17th paragraph. "I didn't think Jay Leno would be talking about it," he said.  The Associated Press reporter on-site ignored the joke altogether, and focused his story on McCain's pledge to brief the public about Iraq on a biweekly...

Barack Obama commands respect while Hillary Clinton overacts. Plus: John Edwards' disappearing act, Mary Shelley debunked, and Ann Coulter's gender weirdness. Nerves, nerves, nerves: The contenders in both parties for the 2008 presidential nomination have been acting like skittish race-track thoroughbreds rearing and shying as their handlers try to shove them into the gates. Each campaign is super-concerned about its candidate getting distracted, winded or making a crippling misstep. What in tarnation was the Hillary Clinton camp thinking when it threw a tantrum about Hollywood producer David Geffen making a few critical remarks about her to a fagged-out media scold?...

The video sharing site YouTube, just recently purchased by Google, has once again allowed a band of determined users to censor something they don't like.The latest casualty is a a controversial spoof political ad by a Republican filmmaker David Zucker (producer of such films as "Scary Movie 4," "Airplane," among others) which depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration, acting as a maid, servant and cheerleader for Islamic terrorists and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. After the Republican party declined to run with it, the ad was sent to Matt Drudge...

It's far too early to write any obituaries for Universal Pictures' "King Kong." As of Tuesday, the end of its first two weeks in release, Peter Jackson's remake had amassed $128 million domestically and $153.6 million abroad, for a combined worldwide haul of $282.1 million. With those numbers, it's just about halfway home to recouping its $207 million production costs, give or take the added millions spent on marketing as well as the participations earmarked for Jackson. Still, the fact that "Kong" didn't automatically prevail as king of the jungle -- but instead has found itself in a day-to-day battle...

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Last summer Cindy Sheehan got a face-to-face meeting with President Bush, complete with kisses and condolences. Today the Vacaville resident is camped outside the president's Texas ranch -- in the glare of the national media spotlight -- demanding another face-to-face meeting, and ultimately his impeachment. Sheehan's son Casey, an Army specialist, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, in April 2004. Eleven weeks later, the Sheehan family traveled to Seattle for a 10-minute conversation with the president, who met with 16 other families who had lost love ones in Iraq. In the ensuing months, Cindy Sheehan has become a focal point...

Despite the fact that Drudge is a pretty decent site for a one-click pulse of national/world news, I'm over the pop-ups. I clicked on TWO links, and ended up with SIX pop-ups. I'm not gonna risk having this thread deleted by trashing the guy, but it simply isn't worth it. Spare me the lectures about Firefox or anti-pop-up software, at some point enough is enough. Drudge Report is the ONLY site I get them on. /rant off

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A Christian education makes teenage boys less permissive, according to research out today. Boys at private Anglican and Catholic schools are more likely to oppose sex before marriage and be less tolerant of pornography. They are also less likely to feel depressed or consider suicide, according to a survey of 13,000 teenagers by Professor Leslie J Francis from the University of Wales, Bangor. Church schools, state and private, have a good reputation among parents for providing a strong moral education and high academic standards. Catholic and Church of England schools in London are frequently the most over-subscribed. Professor Francis questioned...

Imagine a parallel universe where Canadians Norman Jewison and Ivan Reitman are considered the greatest Hollywood directors who ever lived. Where you can read an article about Microsoft attempting to steal the Mohawk language, and peruse endless coverage of the ''Grits," a political party, not a watery food served south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Welcome to the world of nealenews.com, better known as the Canadian Drudge Report. Nealenews, the creation of a 38-year-old Ontario-based technical writer named Brian Neale, is to the Drudge Report as Canada is to the United States. That means his site strongly resembles Matt Drudge's, Neale...

Matt Drudge’s panama hat is the kind that cigar-sucking American newspaper men wore in the 1940s. Seeing him without it is like seeing the Statue of Liberty without her torch or Tom Wolfe without his white suit. The internet has spawned a million sites but has created few real legends — one of whom is Drudge. That hat is part of the legend, a bit of style in the void of cyberspace. Drudge runs one of the most influential and discussed websites in the world: the Drudge Report. It is a tabloid newspaper that you can read on the net...

Andrew Breitbart – long the number two man at the Drudge Report – is rumored to be working behind the scenes with Arianna Huffington's new Webzine, the Huffington Report, according to Washington Times "Inside the Beltway" columnist John McCaslin. The Huffington Report is scheduled to launch sometime this month, and will cater to the radically chic. Its liveliest feature promises to be a group blog where movie stars, New York media mavens, Hollywood film moguls and other wealthy proponents of class struggle and proletarian solidarity can sound off on politics (see "Arianna Huffington Launches Group Blog for Celebrity Leftists"). In...

Glossy magazines were guilty pleasures--before they discovered George W. BushON MARCH 6, THE Drudge Report noted the fact that newsstand sales for the magazine Vanity Fair had plummeted by 22.5 percent during the last half of 2004, attributed by the editor to three successive covers that showed pictures of . . . men. What Drudge did not cite is the parallel fact that this slide tracks exactly with the mutation of the magazine from a great escape read of the guilty-pleasure variety, the place to go for fatuous film stars, Princess Diana, and society murders, into a Bush-bashing rag of...

Tongues were wagging about recent intimate dinners between actor and frequent 'Hardball' guest Ron Silver and leggy, blonde, right wing pundit Ann Coulter. The two were spotted dining twice together in recent weeks at Eilo's.Silver threw cold water on any romantic speculation, 'I'm deeply interested in 'Slander' and I need to know how to talk to a liberal,' he quipped, having fun with the titles of two of Coulter's best selling books. Coulter, menawhile E-mailed to us: Ron Silver is a great american, but Matt Drudge is my only true love.'I hear elsewhere that Silver and Coulter may have been...

Rare live appearance.. will be on this hour. Going to talk about Chris Rock and the Oscars.

Matt Drudge has taken a lot of heat over the years, but in my view he has single handedly put the "Old" in Old Media. Indeed, he is to internet news what Rush Limbaugh was/is to conservative talk radio. From his humble beginnings literally digging up celebrity garbage, he has used his powers for good. Matt, the United States is blessed to have you. Semper Vigilanes

DRUDGE REPORT WAS VIEWED 36,682,486 TIMES IN PAST 24 HOURS.. THE MOST VIEWED DAY IN THE SITE'S 9 1/2 YEAR HISTORY...

What is Madge good for? The only thing Madonna provokes with her latest tour is sadness at how lame she's become Aaron Wherry National Post Monday, May 31, 2004 Madonna and her cast of muscled dancers do Kabbalah-inspired moves at the Re-invention tour launch in Los Angeles. CREDIT: Nam Y. Huh, The Associated Press Those readers under the age of 18 may have to ask their parents about this, but, believe it or not, Madonna used to be quite shocking. Edgy even. Testing with each new album, video or tour the Western world's sexual, religious and political boundaries. Hers was...

  Hillary's Secret WarThe Clinton Conspiracy to MuzzleInternet Journalistsby Richard Poe Foreword by Jim RobinsonFounder of FreeRepublic.com   "Hillary Clinton is one of the most important political players in the last decade, and she's been nothing but trouble. Hillary's Secret War by Richard Poe is required reading." ANN COULTER Bestselling author of Treason, Slander and High Crimes and Misdemeanors   "Hillary's Secret War chronicles the lonely battle many of us waged to expose Clinton corruption. As one who took part in that struggle, I am impressed by the accuracy and insight of Richard Poe's account. He has brought to...

  Hillary's Secret WarThe Clinton Conspiracy to MuzzleInternet Journalistsby Richard Poe Foreword by Jim RobinsonFounder of FreeRepublic.com   Author’s Introductionby Richard Poe   MANY readers will dismiss this book as a collection of wild-eyed conspiracy theories. Yet strong evidence supports every allegation. Who can deny any longer that Hillary Clinton presided over a "secret police" force, charged with silencing, bribing, blackmailing, intimidating, and otherwise neutralizing Clinton foes? The evidence is frankly overwhelming. "Hillary is not merely an aider and abettor to this secret police operation. She has been its prime instigator and organizer," wrote the late Barbara Olson in...

  Hillary's Secret WarThe Clinton Conspiracy to MuzzleInternet Journalistsby Richard Poe Foreword by Jim RobinsonFounder of FreeRepublic.com   "Hillary Clinton is one of the most important political players in the last decade, and she's been nothing but trouble. Hillary's Secret War by Richard Poe is required reading." ANN COULTER Bestselling author of Treason, Slander and High Crimes and Misdemeanors   "Hillary's Secret War chronicles the lonely battle many of us waged to expose Clinton corruption. As one who took part in that struggle, I am impressed by the accuracy and insight of Richard Poe's account. He has brought to...

  Hillary's Secret WarThe Clinton Conspiracy to MuzzleInternet Journalistsby Richard Poe   Foreword by Jim RobinsonFounder of FreeRepublic.com   HILLARY'S SECRET WAR by Richard Poe is the first book Iíve read that really pulls together the story of the Internet underground during the Clinton years. I was thrilled to read it. This story has never been told before, and I'm proud to say that I was part of it, in my own small way. We poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building FreeRepublic.com and organizing a cyber-community of tens of thousands of Freeper activists all over...

  Hillary's Secret WarThe Clinton Conspiracy to MuzzleInternet Journalistsby Richard Poe Foreword by Jim RobinsonFounder of FreeRepublic.com   Preface by Joseph FarahWND Books Co-Founder   THERE were many scandals in the Clinton White House. They were almost too numerous to be chronicled in one book. This book is not an attempt to rehash those familiar to the American public, but rather to expose an agenda behind the most insidious of the scandals, those most threatening to a free republic. This book is about a secret war on political adversaries waged by the most powerful people in the world. It's...

FARGO, N.D. - Ed Schultz was set to make his debut on his own national radio show when he suddenly got a nosebleed. Unfazed, he turned the blood into a prop. "I'm so mean, there's blood on my sheets of paper," Schultz told his listeners, kicking off a project last month that some Democrats and other supporters have billed as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

John Kerry stays in the saddle by galloping past kiss-and-tell tattle. Kiss-and-Tell Tattle and Rides in the Saddle.· (Each line below is a limerick not subdivided, but you can discern what are the break-points for each line) By whom was John Kerry assailed by claims he's a Clintonesque male? Though Drudge has been mum on who beat the drum, it seems that such beating has failed. A pundit named Crawford¹ explained the Drudge-source by him can't be named but said, not implied, the rumor described was recently "shopped"² by Lehane. At PoliSat.Com we are betting the timing and place of...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI FEB 13, 2004 10:38:05 ET XXXXX KERRY ON IMUS: 'THERE'S NOTHING TO REPORT, NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT . . . NO' Democratic presidential frontrunner John Kerry told IMUS IN THE MORNING "there is nothing to report" after a DRUDGE REPORT exclusive revealed the frantic behind-the-scenes drama surrounding a woman who recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry! The nature and details of a claimed two-year relationship, beginning in the Spring of 2001, between a young woman and Kerry is at the center of serious investigations at several media outlets. After being approached...

Matt Drudge did an excellent job today filling in for Rush Limbaugh. What would be even better is if we could get Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge on at the same time exposing Liberals. Rush's treatment is going well and he isn't expected to face any charges as well. Has anyone on FR posted this news yet, by the way? Rush thru treatment - John McCaslin - October 23, 2003 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/jm20031023.shtml This column has learned that Rush Limbaugh's painkiller-addiction "treatment is going extremely well" and "we are confident that, as he promised, Rush will be back on the air within...

And for anybody keeping score, after KFBK-A/SACRAMENTO host TOM SULLIVAN served as RUSH's initial fill-in, KOGO-A/SAN DIEGO's ROGER HEDGECOCK, like SULLIVAN a frequent RUSH fill-in, took his place behind the "golden EIB mic" on WEDNESDAY. Regular RUSH surrogate WALTER WILLIAMS will do FRIDAY's edition, and WISN-A/MILWAUKEE's MARK BELLING is on tap to fill in for early next week, followed by "FOX NEWS SUNDAY"'s TONY SNOW on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY and MATT DRUDGHE on FRIDAY.And contrary to rumor here earlier, Joan Rivers will only be on in Providence........Talk WBAL-A/BALTIMORE does an about-face and will resume carrying the RUSH LIMBAUGH fill-in show...

<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked on Wednesday by a conservative radio host to talk about his racy 1977 Oui magazine interview -- detailing drug use and group sex. The GOP gubernatorial candidate responded with a laugh, "I never lived my life to be a politician. I never lived my life to be the governor of California."</p>

The ladies of "The View" apparently were highly displeased yesterday morning when guest co-host Ann Coulter brought her pal Matt Drudge into the dressing room before the show. The aggrieved television personalities -- who later gave Coulter a hard time on the air for everything from her right-wing political views to her micro-miniskirt -- were "View" regulars Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Joy Behar.

Matt Drudge's Dressing Down By Lloyd Grove Washington Post The ladies of "The View" apparently were highly displeased yesterday morning when guest co-host Ann Coulter brought her pal Matt Drudge into the dressing room before the show. The aggrieved television personalities -- who later gave Coulter a hard time on the air for everything from her right-wing political views to her micro-miniskirt -- were "View" regulars Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Joy Behar.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON APRIL 21, 2003 21:53:28 ET XXXXX DRUDGE TO MAKE RARE APPEARANCE AT PHILLY'S UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS DRUDGE REPORT editor Matt Drudge is set to make a rare public appearance on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. In a freewheeling downtown discussion on internet and news trends, Drudge will be introduced by university professor of humanities and media studies, Camille Paglia. The event will be taped for broadcast at a later date, but a few seats will be open to the public on a first come basis. UArts Connelly Auditorium, Room...

<p>While the rest of the nation has raised its terror-alert level to orange or "high risk" on the eve of a likely invasion of Iraq, Hawai'i will remain at a lower threat level, Gov. Linda Lingle said yesterday.</p> <p>The blue level, known as "guarded," is the second-lowest alert level.</p>

EXCLUSIVE: CONTROVERSY SWIRLS AROUND SEN. EDWARDS TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA... DEVELOPING...

Matt Drudge Finds His Own Place in History Five years ago tomorrow, Matt Drudge changed the course of a presidency and helped popularize a new technology, the Internet. Yet today, the avatar of the latest techno-trend is still attached to the oldest form of communication technology - the written word. On Jan. 17, 1998, Drudge ushered in the new era with this headline on his Web page, the Drudge Report: "BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23- YEAR-OLD FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT!!!" Full story see source

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Drudgery: A good thing "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt to the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw Ambrose Bierce once observed, “Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” I have at times expressed the hope and prayer that journalism has not regressed to the point where it has been reduced to merely reporting selective facts for private advantage. In January of 1998 I was working as a radio talk show host in San Francisco. KSFO was and is owned...

Kerry Rebuked in DuBuque over 'Hate' Comment Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry got a long-distance tongue lashing Friday from Dubuque, Iowa Chamber of Commerce President Steward Sandstrom, after seven-year-old quotes from Kerry surfaced on the Internet stating that he "hated" the Iowa city. "For someone to detest a place in the heartland like this, he must not have been having a good day," Sandstrom told WLIE radio host Mike Seigel in New York. Kerry travels to DuBuque on Sunday for a fundraiser to help build his organization for the Iowa caucuses next year. But after hearing Kerry's remarks, Sandstrom warned...