Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed, President Bill Clinton’s White House feared that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had previously been
Protesters at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada faced off with federal agents this past weekend, sending the message that overreaching government power can be resisted. You’ve seen the news: A video showing the protestors at the Bundy ranch taking on federal
Michael Isikoff, the left-wing journalist most famous for getting scooped on The Story of the Decade by Matt Drudge, is exiting NBC News. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple confirmed the report Friday. Isikoff told The New York Times: “[I]t was
Fox Nation, the website that was “created for people who believe in the United States of America,” is turning five years old this week. Jesse Watters, Fox Nation’s editor, spoke to Breitbart News about his website’s past and its future
House Speaker John Boehner addressed the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by House conservatives mobilizing against his reelection as Speaker on Monday, telling Fox News host Megyn Kelly that he’s “confident” he’ll win reelection next year. “Some are suggesting you are not going
Poor Jesse Lee. Before last week, he was just an earnest, “progressive” blogger. (That’s their latest handle of choice having totally ruined previous ones such as “liberal,” “Democrat,” “socialist,” and “control freak.”) Jesse was a fairly anonymous fellow blogging from
In response to Laszewski: ‘Obamacare is Finished’ Unless White House Acts Now: I’ll say this much for ObamaCare: it’s already survived catastrophic failures that should have filled the streets of Washington with pitchforks and torches. It really help that the
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “On the Record,” ABC’s Rick Klein, The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard discussed the dust-up between the White House and Drudge Report editor Matt Drudge. Klein and Stoddard came
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin praised conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh for fiercely defending new-media pioneer Matt Drudge Monday after the White House and mainstream journalists attacked and mocked Drudge for honestly saying that he had paid a penalty
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” the panel took on the White House attacking Matt Drudge for tweeting he paid his ObamaCare “Liberty Tax” last week. The co-hosts of “The Five” were shocked by the messaging of
On his Monday radio program, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the back-and-forth between Drudge Report editor Matt Drudge and the Obama White House over whether or not Drudge had to pay the so-called ObamaCare tax penalty for opting
On Sunday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” co-hosts Jon Scott, Anna Kooiman and Clayton Morris speculated on whether or not the Obama administration would issue a response after disputing Drudge Report editor Matt Drudge’s claim of paying what he
Checking Breitbart News before bed last night (I’m both an employee and a fan), I thought I knew exactly what had happened based on the headline of Matthew Boyle’s story about Matt Drudge paying a “Liberty Tax.” Based on a
A White House aide set off a stampede of liberal media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare – but his critics don’t seem to understand how small businesses pay taxes. The brouhaha started when Drudge tweeted, “Just
If Gov. Rick Perry gets a second chance to make a first impression, then he could be a serious candidate for president in 2016. Time will tell if he seeks another opportunity to wow the GOP base in Iowa and
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Conservative radio host Mark Levin accepted the first annual Citizens United Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday afternoon before a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds of
The revolution may or may not be televised, but it will be digitalized. The new expansion of Breitbart News to London and Texas is proof. Breitbart News, one of the most disruptive forces in journalism, is crossing the pond and
Wednesday morning at a small meeting of conservative House members called the Conservative Opportunity Society, the topic was immigration–specifically, John Boehner. Despite the loud protestations of his rank-and-file, the House Speaker had come back from the the GOP’s retreat in
A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to overturn a defamation award against a blogger has affirmed that bloggers enjoy the same freedoms and constitutional protections as other journalists. A blogger, Crystal Cox, made a false
On his Thursday “All In” program on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes complains of global warming skeptics being fueled by “snow trolling” propagated by the Drudge Report: (h/t Washington Examiner)
Matt Drudge will remember 2013 forever–not because his website, the Drudge Report, set another traffic record but because his life was changed when he discovered prayer. “It’s the year I discovered prayer,” Drudge told the Wall Street Journal when asked the
The most over-covered story of the year according to MSNBC host Chris Hayes was the Knockout game, which he views as a “Fox News, Drudge obsession.” Hayes announced his selection in his ‘All-in’ Awards “over/under-covered news” segment. Knockout game coverage
Maria Bartiromo, the “money honey” that has been the face of CNBC, is moving to Fox Business Network, as first reported on the Drudge Report on Monday. According to Drudge, “sources close to the situation say there have been ongoing
Defenders of Amazon’s Alpha House will argue the show delivers a snarky, inside the Beltway comedy for the company’s streaming content launch. Here’s how “inside” the show is–in the opening moments of the first new episode we see Republican politicians
Though the lack of details about Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s health may have dissuaded Mitt Romney from selecting him as his running mate, a new book on the 2012 campaign suggests the Romney campaign was more concerned with
In response to Season of the Glitch: So what happened, by all appearances is, NBC deleted the story at some point late last night, made a key edit, and put it back up at a different web address, thereby breaking
On Monday, NBC News reported that President Obama’s administration knew for three years that Americans would lose their current insurance under Obamacare. The story quickly became the lead at the Drudge Report, making it the hottest political story on the
On Monday, the Republican National Senatorial Committee rolled out a new sticker mocking Obamacare web failures. The sticker read: “404: Error.” Only one problem. After the stickers were linked by the Drudge Report, the GOP website promptly failed, giving a
Government bureaucrats aren’t good at much, but they are efficient at making words lose their meaning. For example, the affordable part of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, really means forcing healthy millennials to buy insurance they cannot
On Tuesday evening, left-wing Politico ran a headline story encapsulating the theme of the day: “Government closed, Obamacare falters.” That message marked a massive loss for the Obama administration, which has claimed that Obamacare’s implementation could not be delayed, and
The Republican Party has a new heart, says Matt Drudge–or perhaps at least two. As Texas Senator Ted Cruz was into his filibuster-like maneuver to bring attention to defunding Obamacare, Drudge took to Twitter to proclaim that the “heart” of
Congress has been wrestling with just how to define a journalist in this electronic age, and, despite Internet king Matt Drudge calling Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) a “fascist” for her definition, Washington is pushing ahead with the idea of creating
The attempt by Senate Democrats to define who is, and is not, a journalist is only the latest assault by the left on the First Amendment during the Obama era. From their attacks on free speech in opposition to the
Yesterday the US Senate attempted to define who is and is not a journalist. In the process of passing a “Shield Law” to protect journalists and their sources, a fiery debate ensued over just who is a journalist and who
A new study that examined the disruptive influence Twitter is having on modern political campaigns revealed that political operatives believe the Drudge Report has made new media outlets as important as–or more important than–the legacy outlets the eponymous website formed to
On Tuesday, Matt Drudge, long known for his libertarian leanings, asked on Twitter, “Why would anyone vote Republican? Please give reason.” Sounding like Tea Partiers who revolted against George W. Bush big-government domestic programs–like No Child Left Behind, the Medicare
On Tuesday, internet guru Matt Drudge tweeted a controversial question about America’s vague foreign policy in the Middle East: The al-Qaeda-backed opposition in Syria may receive open Obama administration support in the form of military strikes this week. Meanwhile, the
The Huffington Post has accused Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and Fox News of falsely injecting race into the story of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane who was murdered last week while jogging in Duncan, Okla. Police have not ascribed any racial
In response to Then Why Isn’t There a National Center-Right Newspaper?: Interesting question. I was looking at this from the ground up and from that perspective I think it’s inevitable that most of these papers die off unless they differentiate
***UPDATE: On Neil Cavuto’s show, Thursday, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes responded to the news that Megyn Kelly is moving to primetime: Generally, I don’t confirm or deny any rumors, and that is a rumor at the moment,” said Ailes,
