Who controls today’s Republican Party? Some point to the billionaire Koch brothers. Others have nominated Fox News chief Roger Ailes. According to a pair of recent reports, however, the most influential person in GOP politics is a reclusive 48-year-old named Matthew Drudge—the blissfully closeted proprietor of the…

When Matt Drudge wasn’t writing up ALL-CAPS HEADLINES over the past year about Hillary Clinton, Trayvon Martin, Quentin Tarantino, and the “knockout game,” the notoriously peripatetic ur-blogger began occasionally documenting his whereabouts on Twitter—a bold decision for the famously reclusive Miamian.

A beautiful thing happened on Thursday morning. The Drudge Report threw up a giant headline, “SIGN UP: 1-800-FUCKYO,” beneath a Photoshopped picture of Barack Obama holding the bell of a stethoscope. The headline linked to a Daily Caller item, published several hours prior, about Healthcare.gov’s toll-free hotline,…

The latest victim of fake news source The Daily Currant: Matt Drudge, who (like the idiots at Zero Hedge last night) was taken in by this bafflingly unfunny story about Mike Bloomberg being denied a slice of pizza at a restaurant.

If you aren't naturally attuned to the frequency at which internet conservatives are currently shaking with rage, you might've been surprised when you visited right-wing aggregation site the Drudge Report this morning and were confronted with the following headline, in 40-point type: "'N*GGER. N*GGER. N*GGER. N*GGER.…

A lot of people, it turns out. America's 236-year streak of successful, peaceful transitions of power from one administration to the next is about to be broken, because come Election Day 2012, no matter who wins, this country is going to break out into Riot City.

Way back in 2007, conservative bloggers went wild over then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's so-called "quiet riots" speech at Hampton Unversity, a historically black college in Virginia. For all the right-wing consternation over Obama's address, which included a shout-out to controversial Reverend Jeremiah…

For a few hours yesterday, the top link on the Drudge Report led to a YouTube video in which an Ohio woman said she's going to vote for President Obama because he gave her a phone. The woman is inarticulate and she speaks loudly, and on top of those things she's black. Basically, she is exactly the kind of person many…

Matt Drudge's latest foray into barely subliminal messaging doesn't involve evil black youths beating up kindly white people. Instead, it shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Obama, and Nancy Pelosi all making the same gesture, establishing them as equally evil. Cute!

The Drudge Report linked the above headline to this Washington Post article on Catholic conservative Bob Turner's victory tonight over Democrat Dave Weprin in the race for Anthony Weinergate's old (and hopefully shampooed) Congressional throne. Looks like "angry blacks" have company!

Decision Points, the world's most anticipated political memoir by George W. Bush ever is about to hit shelves. And the Drudge Report has offered up a preview! The first chapter opens up with George W. Bush as an alcoholic.

Lest there be any doubt that the Drudge Report is the Perez Hilton of politics: Today's top story is a two-week-old "demon photo" of Hillary Clinton. The Drudge Report is actually a liberal parody of the conservative blogosphere, right?

Iran, aided by Russian technicians, is about to open a nuclear reactor, to produce energy. Russia says it's implemented safeguards to ensure fuel can't be diverted for possible weapons programs. Still: Let's translate this into Drudge Report-ese, shall we?

Today, the Drudge Report offers more proof that America hates Obama: Video of Boy Scouts booing a message from our leader at a convention. But were they actually booing because they love Obama so much? YouTube detectives: On the case!

Today, Mediabistro published some funny off-the-record comments from Washington Post liberal opinion columnist Dave Weigel. He said that Matt Drudge should "set himself on fire"! Ha ha. Should he, though?

Every couple years, the rumor surface that Barack Obama had an affair with his hot campaign worker Vera Baker. It happened again—this time in the pages of the National Enquirer. Which is always right about politicians' sex scandals.

Linking to a report about Osama bin Laden's latest audio message, the Drudge Report uses an upside-down image of the terrorist leader's face. In his infinite wit and wisdom, Matt Drudge is trying to tell us something. But what?

Odious hack Mark Halperin (and fine New York Magazine political reporter John Heilmann) wrote a book about the 2008 campaign! Did you read one of its many scoops, today? Probably, because the same information was cut-and-pasted everywhere.

Earlier today, author Greg Beato posted a fascinating story on his site Soundbitten disclosing the links-for-pay arrangement that the Drudge Report's sometime deputy Andrew Breitbart struck with Reuters. We wrote about it earlier, but Beato's allowed us to reprint it.