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.

In 2006, TIME Magazine named Drudge one of the 100 most influential people in the world, describing the Drudge Report as " A ludicrous combination of gossip, political intrigue and extreme weather reports ... still put together mostly by the guy who started out as a convenience-store clerk.

On October 23, 2008, Drudge published an unconfirmed exclusive story regarding Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old employee of the College Republican National Committee ( CRNC ) and John McCain volunteer who had allegedly been attacked by a black male for having a McCain sticker on her car in Pittsburgh.

Players who pre-ordered the expansion were granted access to a second new character race, the Drudge at the time of the Legions launch.

After all, that was the thing that interested them and us the most ( and unfortunately there are few who do not fit into stated majority ). During the trial, Matt Drudge accused the media of largely ignoring testimony and evidence that exonerated Jackson and said, " Out here ... Michael Jackson is being literally crucified ... I think if you did a pulse poll, of people listening to these local talk shows, they would say 95 % that Michael Jackson did all this ... because it ’ s based on the coverage.

According to founder and former editor Denis Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily was inspired by the Drudge Report but was meant to reach " the kinds of people who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, who read Salon and Slate and The New Republic — people interested in ideas.

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.

This is evident in Mrs Drudge ’ s character, who is a common maid and therefore does not speak quite as sophisticatedly as Cynthia, Felicity or Simon.

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.

On July 2, 2008, Matt Drudge reported that Limbaugh signed a contract extension through 2016 that is worth over $ 400 million, breaking records for any broadcast .< ref >

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.

In October 2006, Washington Post editor Len Downie, speaking at the Online News Association's annual convention in Washington, D. C., said " Our largest driver of traffic is Matt Drudge.

Drudge has been called " the Walter Cronkite of his era " by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, " an idiot with a modem " by Keith Olbermann, " the country's reigning mischief-maker " by Todd Purdum of The New York Times, and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek said " Drudge is a menace to honest, responsible journalism.

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

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.

The play is set, as spoken by Mrs Drudge, in the " drawing room of Lady Muldoon ’ s country residence one morning in early spring.

Mrs Drudge states that " this is all very mysterious and I ’ m sure it ’ s leading up to something.

Cadenhead uses a yellow background, which implies that Drudge is a yellow journalist.

KFAB is host to such national shows as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, Michael Savage, Coast-to-Coast AM, and The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold.

Fox News directors didn't want to use the picture because they feared Drudge would use it to support a pro-life argument.

Being a Matt Drudge fan, John Swartzwelder ( pictured ) originally wanted " The Computer Wore Menace Shoes " to be called " Homer the Drudge ".

Drudge pointed out that website's transcription of the memo contained several errors, namely a misspelling of the name of the memo's author ( Kozu instead of Koza ), a misspelling of the NSA's " top secret " stamp ( with a " 1 " instead of an " L "), and several words written with a non-US spelling, as well as a date-stamp in the European format.

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 ".

The Drudge Report began as an e-mail sent out to a few friends.

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

When Mrs. Drudge answers the phone, Stoppard makes fun of the excess of information readily handed out in murder mysteries.

* The Drudge Report's article from the day the news was formally released can be found in the Drudge Report Archives here

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.

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.

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, 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.

" 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.

* 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.