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NON-NEWS FROM DRUDGE: A MELANGE OF THE TRITEPublished in The following items appeared on DrudgeReport.com today: Oil plunges $4… Anyone really think it would hold at $147? What goes up always comes down. It’s now at $120 a barrel and will probably break $100 when OPEC realizes you can’t get blood from a stone and Congress gets back from its 5 week vacation after doing nada. RECORD 107-DEGREES BROILS DALLAS… Hot? Yep! But it is August and the average daily high in Dallas is 95 degrees. Did I mention it’s August and that the last time it was this hot...

<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...

Ten years ago, he was a reclusive 31-year-old who, bashing away on a laptop in his grungy Hollywood apartment, shot to prominence after he broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal that threatened to bring down Bill Clinton's presidency. Now, Matt Drudge owns a luxurious home on Rivo Alto Island in Florida's Biscayne Bay, a condominium at the Four Seasons in Miami, and is said to drive a black Mustang. He remains an elusive, mysterious figure, but the Internet pioneer is arguably the world's most powerful journalist. Mr. Drudge is still an outsider, contemptuous of the cosy relationships and closed-door deals that...

There's a report today that the New York Times has a story coming up that details extensive involvement between Senator McCain and a telco lobbyist that may have resulted in the telco retro-active immunity provision of the new FISA amendment. ... According to Matt Drudge, McCain has hired legal counsel to pressure the Times to hold back on the story until after the primaries, or kill it outright. Additionally, according to Drudges account, "Rutenburg had hoped to break the story before the Christmas holiday, sources reveal, but editor Keller expressed serious reservations about journalism ethics and issuing a damaging story...

~ January 17, 1998 ~ NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN; BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX 06:11 UTC SUN JAN 18 1998 XXXXX NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT **World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT** At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States! The DRUDGE...

Excerpt: TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ET Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!Source Drudge Report

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...

The Wall Street Journal says the Republicans' prospects for 2008 are looking "dim," with Americans giving the GOP "their most negative assessment in the two-decade history" of the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Maybe this will help: As the Politico reports, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has come up with a 39-page playbook to teach GOP candidates how to weather the not-so-new new-media world. "Rapid response and explanation of a position or vote to friendly blogs can ensure center-right solidarity behind your defense," the playbook says. "The paradigmatic example of the failure to do is the 'macaca' moment. Conservative blogs,...

{{{{DRUDGE POLL}}}} WHO WON THE DEM DEBATE IN NH? Biden 7% 488 Clinton 12% 901 Dodd 5% 383 Edwards 6% 413 Gravel 8% 591 Kucinich 10% 737 Obama 38% 2,759 Richardson 14% 995 Total Votes: 7,267

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?...

Matt Drudge, who may or may not be a willing accomplice to the distortion of news reporting, must be held responsible for the dissemination of the bias in the liberal press. Studies have shown that the readership of the Times is down — as it is in other liberal publications — and so are the television ratings of the alphabet networks and CNN and MSNBC, while Fox News is up. Nevertheless, the propaganda of the "enemedia"—--an excellent descriptive term coined by one poster to Lucianne.com--—continues to sully news coverage, thanks to Mr. Drudge. A study of press bias by a...

The first time I heard the word "mendacity" was in the film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." I loved the way Burl Ives's character spits out the word as something vile and unacceptable. Unfortunately, we live in a society where untruthfulness is routinely accepted and even mandated by politicians, union leaders, and members of the press. New York is the headquarters of the biggest producer of mendacity, the New York Times. Fortunately, it's also the home of the antidote, Lucianne.com.

This may be nothing, it may be something, but if you go to Matt's front page, the capitol dome, which was tilting straight up a half hour ago, is now tiliting to the right.

The troops respond to Lurch!

In the crucial congressional elections, now about five weeks away, one of the strongest weapons in the Republican arsenal is a man running a Web site out of his apartment in Miami. His name is Matt Drudge. Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story and has had a tremendous influence on what you know about politics ever since. From the comfort of his apartment, Drudge can send shock waves through newsrooms and campaign headquarters nationwide with breaking news often heralded by his trademark siren. "If Drudge has a siren up, people know it's something they have to look at," said Mark...

At this moment, for two different stories, Drudge is showing the following pics side by side.

So Matt Drudge was right. Not about Bill Clinton's love child or John Kerry's affair, but he was right about this: "We are all newsmen now." Drudge hates the word blogger, yet his exclusive about the former President and intern Monica Lewinsky set out an animated-gif siren for an army of armchair pundits to follow. Today a flotilla of freelance fact checkers make life more difficult for the salaried employees of what has come to be known as the MSM, or mainstream media. With 10 million readers daily, Drudge, 39, has paved a generous path for the blogs; without his...

Matt forgot to mention that the Cheney's gave $6.87 million to charity, and he forgot to mention that the only reason the Cheney's are getting a tax refund is that they way overpaid their withholding and/or estimated taxes. It appears that Matt is now a charter member of the Drive-By-Media.

The Drudge Report could be seen on a computer during a CBS News conference with employees about Katie Couric replacing Bob Schieffer as the Evening News anchor.

What's up with Drudge? He has the same content on for almost days now... including headlines. He used to move information fast. Currently he doesn't have anything on the raid in Samarra while we have had it reported here at FR for hours. I don't look at Drudgereport to find stuff that was written two days ago as the lead story. Has he cut staff or what? Does anyone know... please report.

NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS Thu Mar 09 2006 11:21:33 ET **Exclusive** [Press release set for 2 PM ET release] NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon. "We realize that this is a radical conclusion - that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo....

All morning long I've been getting a "The file / cannot be found. Please check the location and try again." error when accessing www.drudgereport.com Anybody else having problems?

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...

Somebody at Seattle's KOMO-TV sure doesn't like Matt Drudge. After linking to a photo at KOMO's website, the station had the image changed from one of an illegal drug/alien/terrorist smuggling tunnel between Lynden, Washington and British Columbia, to this:

XXX LIVE SUNDAY NIGHTS XXX9:30 PM TO 1:00 AM EASTERN WABC 9:30 PM Simulcast: Quick ClickLISTEN ONLINEWINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER/MISC PROPRIETARY: WABC...New York, NY (Liquid Compass)WFLA...Tampa, FL (Liquid Compass)KPRC...Houston, TX (Liquid Compass)WJNO...West Palm Beach, FL KFI...Los Angeles, CA (Liquid Compass)WIOD...Miami, FL WGST...Atlanta, GA (Liquid Compass)KOGO...San Diego, CA (Liquid Compass) REAL PLAYER: WNTK...New London, NH Drudge on the DialCALL IN 1-866-4-DRUDGE...XM: channel 166AIM: mdrudgePlease notify lainie of ping list preferencesComment on what you hear here!

Hello. I mostly lurk, and I visit infrequently unless elections are heating up. I apologize if my post is inappropriate, I know vanity posts are discouraged. If I'm out of line, please report my thread, delete it, smack me down as appropriate. I work on computers for a living, and have been really disgusted with the number and frequency of annoying pop up ads on Drudge. They get past IE's integrated blocker. They get past the Google toolbar. I don't want to install another browser or take heroic measures to browse in peace. If Mr. Drudge asked me to support...

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...

Drudge is certainly becomming the clutter king of the net. To avoid being inudated by spyware and popups I'm not only running IE's native popup stopper under XP but I'm also forced to use Panicware's commercial version.Drudge is also one of the few sites that can defeat Firefox's Adblock extension. It may take 4 tries to eliminate his ever changing URL for his top banner during a single session and then the URLs are different the next day.If it gets worse, color Mat gone on the "Links' menu.

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...

Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective. She has lined up more than 250 of what she calls "the most creative minds" in the country to write a group blog that will range over topics from politics and entertainment to sports and religion. It is essentially a nonstop virtual talk show that will be part of a Web site that will also serve up breaking news around the...

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...

Left of the Dial, which looks to be a 90-minute documentary that will deliver a glowing tribute to the left wing Air America radio talk show service, will debut Thursday night on HBO. The HBO Web site touted how "a group of investors set out to launch a liberal radio network that would challenge the dominance of America's airwaves by conservative talk radio." A synopsis of the documentary recounted how "in the days before launch, the energy picks up amidst a whirlwind of photo shoots, CNN sound bites, the creation of marketing/PR materials, and delivery of the hot-off-the-presses New York...

26 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan since 2002; investigators have concluded 'criminal homicide,' sources... Developing...

Here is a simple fix to those nasty popus. Just do a google scan on "HOSTS", without the quotes. You will find how it controls your browsing. I did this and it makes my life much easier.

First off, as required by the unwritten laws of FreeRepublic, section 301.102, subsection 37, clause D, Paragraph 2 (all threads refering to Ann Coulter must be accompanied by a photograph of Ann Coulter): The Tri-State NY NJ CT Freeper Holiday Party took place this afternoon and SHE came to the party! We got autographs, photos (they should be posted soon), etc. She stuck around for the whole entire party. And, GOD, photos do NOT do her justice. She is so much more beautiful in person! Wow!

My computer is set to advise me if a site I am going to is trying to download something onto my computer and gives me the option to download or cancel. I just went to Drudge's site and got a warning about an attempted download. Drudge has been dumping at 3 to 7 spyware programs on my computer each time I visit - I've checked by clearing all spyware and then going to his site and checking again. That's bad enough. But, now to have direct downloads from from Drudge, that is not alright. Likely it is from the same...

Washington D.C.'s Secret Service is investigating Charlie Brooker of the UK Guardian. The entertainment writer's weekend, anti-Bush tantrum, ending with the words, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.--where are you now that we need you," was picked up by the Drudge Report,--using Brooker's provocative last words as the main headline. Citing federal statute 18 USC 879, Florida attorney John B. Thompson, called in the Secret Service Protective Intelligence Unit. "Please do whatever is necessary to punish the UK Guardian and to educate Matt Drudge on the meaning and scope of statute 18," Thompson wrote in a letter...

I couldn't find this posted anywhere nor does it appear on Drudge's site, but on his radio show tonight, he was citing a report that in some Ohio counties, there were more people registered to vote than there were citizens in those counties per the latest census. When asked how this could be, the democrats (I believe) replied that more people moved into those counties after the census.

"How the White House Used Disputed Arms Intelligence" NYT 10/3/04

As Bill Clinton hit the operating table at 6:45 a.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in upper Manhattan, MSNBC almost simultaneously was preparing a video package of the former president's obituary -- just in case. From: Hitchins, Charles (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 6:25 AM To: @MSNBC Newsforce Staff Subject: Clinton Obit Just in case it's needed Mitchell Obit on Clinton C1052 Trt 3:47

HILLARY OUTSELLS BILL IN CLINTON BOOK RACE Wed Aug 18 2004 11:42:59 ET Hillary Clinton's book will stand as the sales champ over her husband's MY LIFE, sales figures show. With Bill Clinton's book scanning just 28,444 copies last week -- for a total of 1,001,262 since its release, according to NIELSEN -- Hillary's record appears safe. The former first lady's LIVING HISTORY sold 1,121,340 during the same number of weeks in release, data shows. [NIELSN BOOKSCAN tracks sales from approximately 4,500 retailers across the country and is generally considered to capture about 70-80% of total sales of all...

AP: Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel (AP) KARIN LAUB Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples - a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water. During an exclusive tour of the cave by The Associated Press, archaeologists presented wall carvings they said tell the story of the fiery New Testament preacher, as well as a stone they believe was used for ceremonial foot washing. They also pulled about 250,000 pottery shards from the cave, the apparent remnants of small...

As John F. Kerry tries to bounce out of Boston and into a decisive fall campaign lead, a skeleton from the past will slink out of jail - possibly looking to score headlines and undercut the new nominee. David Paul, a central figure in a 1980s savings and loan scandal, is set to be sprung from a halfway house in Miami Sunday - a decade after his conviction on 97 counts of banking fraud. TV news outlets are scrambling to line up the first interview, hopeful the long-silent Paul might spill some beans about his close fund-raising ties to Kerry...

A Measure of Media Bias Tim Groseclose Department of Political Science, UCLA, and Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Jeff Milyo Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago September 2003 We are grateful for the research assistance by Aviva Aminova, Jose Bustos, Anya Byers, Evan Davidson, Kristina Doan, Wesley Hussey, David Lee, Pauline Mena, Orges Obeqiri, Byrne Offut, Matt Patterson, David Primo, Darryl Reeves, Susie Rieniets, Tom Rosholt, Michael Uy, Michael Visconti, Margaret Vo, Rachel Ward, and Andrew Wright. Also, we are grateful for comments by Mark Crain, Tim Groeling, Wesley Hussey, Chap Lawson, Jeff Lewis, and Barry Weingast....

I spotted this on Drudge's page: ABC NEWS VOWS CHALLENGE TO DRUDGEREPORT: 'Some of you are currently using a certain other Web site as your homepage because you are under the misguided impression that it is the best place for BREAKING news and DEVELOPING stories that are IMPACTING now'... With the link to The Note(Note - approximately midway through the top "News Summary")

WEB SURFERS MORE POLITICALLY ACTIVE THAN GENERAL POPULATION, SAYS NIELSEN Americans who spend time online are more apt to be politically active than the population as a whole, according to a new study from Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures and analyzes Internet usage. Not only are more of this group registered to vote, but they are also more likely to exercise their vote during elections. Querying a group of Web surfers earlier this month, the research firm found that 86% of Internet users age 18 and older are registered voters, as compared with 70% of the U.S. population in this age bracket....

XXXX DRUDGE RETORT XXXX 14:26:29 EST FEB 19 2004 XXXX Matt Drudge loses advertiser in wake of Kerry blunder! **DRUDGE RETORT EXCLUSIVE** Sound the siren: Matt Drudge has lost a long-time advertiser in the wake of last week's groundless report alleging that Sen. John Kerry had an extramarital affair with a 27-year-old woman. AT&T Wireless has pulled all advertising from the Drudge Report in response to a complaint about its sponsorship of the site. "We care about the places our on-line ads appear, and that site doesn't reflect the values of AT&T Wireless," e-mailed Jeremy Pemble, the company's vice president...

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...