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Tue Feb 9
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#breitbartsheroes

Andrew Breitbart's Horrible Track Record of Picking Right-Wing Heroes

Andrew Breitbart has a bad habit of championing unreliable nuts with destructive tendencies, just because they're conservative. Alleged criminal activity aside, James O'Keefe might turn out to be less embarrassing than some of Andrew's other great conservative hopes. More »

01/27/10

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By Pareene

#exegesis

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Drudge's Upside-Down Bin Laden: What Does It Mean?

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? More »

01/25/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#endlesscampaign

Attention Political Journalists: It Is No Longer 2008

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. More »

01/08/10

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By Pareene

#drudgesubtext

As long as water can still freeze on Planet Earth, global warming is a hoax.

01/07/10

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#science

Dear Matt Drudge: Global warming and winter are not mutually exclusive weather phenomena.

01/05/10

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#rumormonger

Drudge: Those Rupert Murdoch Rumors (That You Never Heard) Are Not True!

Did Matt Drudge just reverse-jujitsu a Rupert Murdoch rumor into the news? Australian website Crikey reported that Murdoch split with his wife Wendi Deng. No one, anywhere, picked it up, because Murdoch runs half the gossip industry. But here's Matt! More »

12/07/09

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By Pareene

#drudgeology

When White People Are Arrested on Their Own Property, Matt Drudge Is There

Hey look, Matt Drudge is bringing much-needed attention to the outrageous case of Jeremy Engelking, a white man who was arrested for trespassing on his own property. Arresting white people on their own property is an abuse of power. More »

12/04/09

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By John Cook

#thinspiration

Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps

Accused of skipping meals and wasting away, the leader of the free world protested: Am not, I have naturally fine bones, and I'm under a lot of pressure. Hey Barack, quit stealing Nicole Richie's lines. More »

11/19/09

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By Maureen O'Connor

#guestfeature

Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report

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. More »

11/05/09

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By Greg Beato

#filthylucre

How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire

Reason contributor Greg Beato has a fascinating analysis of conservative baby-mogul Andrew Breitbart's content deal with Reuters—every time Breitbart.com links to a Reuters story, his cash register rings. And maybe every time Drudge links to one, too. More »

11/05/09

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By John Cook

#bloggers

Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?

It may seem crass to put a pricetag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss. More »

10/13/09

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By Ryan Tate

#mixedmessages

Drudge and Palin's Afghanistan Messages: A Right-Wing Sybil Moment?

The Pentagon and "patriotic" hawks for years supported a prohibition on publishing pictures of slain soldiers' caskets. Then President Obama lifted the ban, thus giving Matt Drudge an opportunity to create this lovely collage commemorating the Afghanistan war's 8th anniversary. More »

10/06/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#sports

Olympic Defeat: Terror Hipsters Win Battle of Chicago!

Olympics denied, Hopey! The International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting, despite the fact that Barack Obama asked them real nice to pick that pleasant city. More »

10/02/09

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By Pareene

#trendwatch

Sometimes Things Just Come Together

Absolutely incredible! Drudge Report's injecting its very special, racially-tinted take into the Derrion Albert conversation. And taking on the big Obama-backed Olympic's in Chicago plan, which has the right all riled up. This is news fusion at its greatest.

09/28/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#drudgeology

Your Morning in Fabricated Drudge Headlines

This is Matt Drudge's headline about the outing of a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear facility. Here's what the story he links to says: "White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years." More »

09/25/09

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By John Cook

#drudgeology

OMG Obama Said 'World' and then 'Order'

Matt Drudge's headline for Barack Obama's U.N. speech is ominous: "WORLD ORDER." Here's the sole occurrence of that phrase in Obama's speech: "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed."

09/23/09

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By John Cook

#messaging

Matt Drudge's Angry Black People Obsession

A high-school kid got beat up on a school bus in ~~Utah~~ ~~Missouri~~ Illinois (!) yesterday, an event so shocking and rare that the nation's seventh-largest news site chose it as its top story. Oh, and the kid was white! More »

09/15/09

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By John Cook

#delusions

Prominent Journalists Lie About Not Reading the Drudge Report

We're not ones to hype Matt Drudge's influence, but he is what he is, and New York Times editor Bill Keller and the Huffington Post's Tom Edsall's claims to the Observer that they don't read Drudge are transparent lies. More »

09/09/09

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By John Cook

#art

Barack Obama's Art Brigades Are Coming for You

Matt Drudge is playing up Andrew Breitbart's latest Obama conspiracy theory—that he is enlisting the aid of the all-powerful visual arts cartel in support of healthcare reform. How long before artist thugs are dragging conservatives from their homes? More »

09/08/09

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By John Cook

#copyfight

Drudge Death Panel Murders iPhone App in Stalinist Snafu

Just as we suspected he would, Matt Drudge demanded Apple kill iDrudge, the iPhone app created by a fan to read his website. But the right-wing protoblogger then reversed himself in a stunning flip fliop. Siren time! More »

09/03/09

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By Ryan Tate

#tributes

Drudge Fan's iPhone App Helpfully Strips Out Advertising

Oh, look at that: A self-professed fan of blogger Matt Drudge has released iDrudge, an apparently unauthorized iPhone app for reading the Drudge Report. No need to zoom in, like in Mobile Safari. Also: No ads! More »

08/28/09

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