An article in The Miami Herald from September 2003 said Drudge estimated he earns $ 1. 2 million a year from his website and radio show.

The article says " Republican operatives keep an open line to Drudge, often using him to attack their opponents.

The book received heavy media coverage when it was released, including coverage by the Drudge Report and New York Posts Page Six, an appearance by Jackson on C-SPAN, and even an article on China Daily titled " Clinton Accused of Raping Nurse in New Book.

The article was widely condemned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, and Abe Foxman, among others, including now-disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner who suggested that New Yorkers take copies of that issue out of their news boxes and destroy them.

The subsequent article was linked on the Drudge Report and quoted in an Associated Press article.

In his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge says that he " failed his Bar Mitzvah ", and graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, giving himself, in his words, a " more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post at 7-Eleven ".

Breitbart announced in 2005 that he was " amicably leaving the Drudge Report after a long and close working relationship with Matt Drudge " but still helped run Drudge's website from Los Angeles by working the afternoon shift, in addition to running Breitbart. com.

Today, Drudge maintains the website from his two properties in Miami.

Drudge had refused to go on air, charging Fox News with censorship when the network prevented him from showing photos of surgery on Samuel Armas.

Drudge, who is pro-life, wanted to use a picture of a tiny hand reaching out from the womb to dramatize his argument against late-term abortion, but Fox's John Moody decided that that would be misleading because the photo was not of an abortion but an emergency operation on the fetus for spina bifida.

Drudge, described as a conservative populist by The Daily Telegraph, champions himself as free from corporate influences.

Competition from sites like The Drudge Report and The Political Simpleton slightly decreased after the 2006 purchase, due to the increase in advertising revenue.

** HMS Drudge was renamed HMS Dryad from 26 January 1919 until later in the same year.

The hoax received some attention from national media, including an appearance on the Drudge Report.

His first radio appearance since his departure from ABC was as a substitute host for Matt Drudge on July 22, 2007.

He then proceeded to host a second show as a guest host on KFI in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of Matt Drudge, in the next three hours from 7 – 10 PM Pacific time.

In June 2008, the Associated Press filed seven DMCA takedown requests against Cadenhead for stories published by users on the Drudge Retort reproducing from 39 to 79 words of AP articles.

* " BUCHANAN DECLARES: DEATH OF THE WEST " from the Drudge Report

WVOC has a talk radio format with syndicated shows, mostly from parent Clear Channel's Premiere networks, including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, Adam Bold, and Coast-to-Coast AM.

By the following day, questions about the authenticity of the documents were being publicized by the Drudge Report, which linked to the analysis at the Powerline blog in the mid-afternoon, and the story was covered on the website of the magazine The Weekly Standard and broke into mass media outlets, including the Associated Press and the major television news networks.

Matthew Nathan " Matt " Drudge ( born October 27, 1966 ) is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website that also breaks major news stories.

Drudge was unknown before he began the news aggregation site, the Drudge Report.

Drudge first received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election.

In 1998, Drudge gained popularity when he was the first outlet to break the news that later became the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Drudge gained notice in the early 2000s by becoming a frequent reference for news material on Limbaugh's, Sean Hannity's, and Mark Levin's radio shows.

On October 22, 2007, New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg wrote that Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, were cooperating with Drudge and " working harder than ever to get favorable coverage for their candidates – or unfavorable coverage of competitors – onto the Drudge Report ’ s home page, knowing that television producers, radio talk show hosts and newspaper reporters view it as a bulletin board for the latest news and gossip.

Winfrey responded in a written statement to news outlets that: " The item in today ’ s Drudge Report is categorically untrue.

Drudge then printed a retraction of the story, including links to the news stories detailing that the attack had been a hoax and that Ashley Todd had performed a similar ' attack ' on herself while volunteering in a local Ron Paul grassroots group.

* Linking news sites, Matt Drudge creates an Internet success, by Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald, September 1, 2003

# Independent news and information Websites ( Consumer Reports, the Drudge Report )

The episode was originally called " Homer the Drudge " and would be about Homer becoming news editor Matt Drudge.

Originally, the episode was about Homer becoming Matt Drudge, the creator and an editor of the news aggregation website the Drudge Report, which Swarzwelder is a fan of.

Andrew Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012 ) was an American publisher, commentator for The Washington Times, author, and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.

When conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge failed to register drudge. com for his news and gossip website Drudge Report, Cadenhead registered drudge. com in 1998 and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to the right-leaning Drudge Report, and as " a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style ".

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

The memo's authenticity was questioned by many within the US, including pundit Matt Drudge.

Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC.

His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www. refdesk. com, and his mother, a former staff attorney for U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six.

Here, he was apparently privy to some inside gossip, part of the inspiration for founding the Drudge Report.

For many years, Drudge was based out of his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.

The show, which was also named the Drudge Report, was syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.

They also wrote that "" Drudge, with his droll Dickensian name, was not the only media or political agent whose actions led to John Kerry's defeat.

During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Drudge was described by some, including former presidential candidate Fred Thompson, as having a pro-Mitt Romney slant.

Drudge was accused of planting a false story for political ends by some commentators.

* April 1998 Blumenthal v. AOL ( part of the case against Drudge and AOL ) held that the CDA protects AOL for Drudge's writing that Blumenthal, an assistant to the US President, had a spousal abuse background ( retracted in two days ) even though it paid Drudge US $ 3, 000 a month for his columns, had editorial control and might well have been liable if it was not an online publication.

A town hall style meeting organized by Rep. Castle to discuss health care reform with constituents was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline " VIDEO: Congressman's town hall erupts over Obama birth certificate ...".

Another guitarist, Guy, joined a year later, in 1989, and the split LP with the band Drudge was recorded and released on Deaf Records, as well as several other EPs.

* Supposed it was you ( split with Drudge ) 1989