“Drudge is not a reporter, a journalist or a newsgatherer. He is, as he himself admits, simply a purveyor of gossip. See Complaint, Exs. 6, 8. His argument that he should benefit from the "news gathering exception" to subsection (a)(4) of the long-arm statute merits no serious consideration.” This is not speculation or commentary from any political type. This is the legal opinion of a judge who presided over a defamation suit in which Drudge was involved a few years ago. (SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL and JACQUELINE JORDAN BLUMENTHAL, Plaintiffs, v. MATT DRUDGE and AMERICA ONLINE, INC., Defendants., Civil Action No. 97-1968 (PFL), UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 992 F. Supp. 44; 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5606; 26 Media L. Rep. 1717; 12 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 367, April 22, 1998, Decided, April 22, 1998, Filed)
The suit was filed because on August 10, 1997, Drudge ran the following hateful smear against Blumenthal, who had just been given a political appointment by then-President Clinton:
“The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that top GOP operatives who feel there is a double-standard of only reporting republican shame believe they are holding an ace card: New White House recruit Sidney Blumenthal has a spousal abuse past that has been effectively covered up.
“The accusations are explosive.” That lead in look familiar? The exact type he used when issuing his recent dishonest smears against General Wesley Clark or his current claims against Senator John Kerry? Drudge continued: “There are court records of Blumenthal's violence against his wife, one influential republican, who demanded anonymity, tells the DRUDGE REPORT…
Wow, court records, huh? It must have been easy for Drudge to defend himself then, huh? Certainly he didn’t back down, since there were “court records” to support his smearing claim, right?
Well, actually, Drudge had to retract the story and, according to a report by the Washington Post, apologize. As the legal proceedings report:
“After receiving a letter from plaintiffs' counsel on Monday, August 11, 1997, Complaint, Ex. 6, defendant Drudge retracted the story through a special edition of the Drudge Report posted on his web site and e-mailed to his subscribers. Drudge Decl. I PP 17-19. At approximately 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 12, 1997, Drudge e-mailed the retraction to AOL which posted it on the AOL service. Drudge Decl. I P 19; AOL Mem. at l2. n5 Defendant Drudge later publicly apologized to the Blumenthals. Drudge Decl. I P 20; Complaint, Ex. 6 (Howard Kurz (sic), Blumenthals Get Apology, Plan Lawsuit: Web Site Retracts Story on Clinton Aide, Washington Post, August 11, 1997, at A 11).”
Matt Drudge was a poorly educated nobody who worked at places like 7/11. His big break came when he was managing a gift shop, which happened to be on the CBS studio lot. He would hear some inside scoops about celebrities, and so figured he could make himself seem useful by leeching off of scraps of information about those people people actually cared about.
But like Rupert Murdoch, Drudge realized that if you firmly and constantly kiss right-wing butt, the extremely wealthy and completely amoral Bush/Limbaugh-right will push you ahead with their massive media machine and give you lots of money to continue propagating your smears and flat out lies.
And so Drudge was born. He, by most accounts, was about the first to break the Lewinsky story, his big claim to fame. And ever since, he has lived as an indentured servant, completely bound to keep lying and smearing as the right wants him to lest he lose his ability to survive purely as a hate-spewing leech – because he has no actual abilities or education which would afford him to be successful in any decent career.
Top-rated West Coast radio host Tom Lycus a few months back talked about Rush Limbaugh’s drug addiction.
“This is a brutal business. It is full of people who hate themselves and their lives.”
Matt Drudge has to wake up each morning realizing his entire existence is dependent on his continued hate-spewing, lying, distorting, and smearing for the sake of tearing apart and ruining the lives of men and women who may be good people. For example, this poor woman who Drudge accused of having an affair with Kerry - she is in Africa with her fiancé, Drudge has made her life a living hell as the media has been camped out outside her fiancé’s family’s house for days now and following them wherever they go.
How proud you must be, Matt.
And if there is no affair, look what he has done to John Kerry – a man who fought and took bullets in defense of his country, who, for over 20 years has actively worked to better his nation.
Look at what he did to General Wesley Clark (see article: Right-Wind Launches Dishonest Smear Attack on Clark), by all accounts a good man who dedicated over three decades in service to America. And Drudge has to sit there and spread provable lies about this great American lest he no longer have any way to make money. His is the lowest of scum, and he is trapped in being so, as an affront to all that is decent and good about America.
He attacks true patriots purely for political ends, even though he can likely barely spell ‘patriot’ and probably thinks ‘political ends’ means Ann Coulter bending over.
On top of this all he is butt, butt ugly. Usually when people are so butt ugly they develop some sort of charm to offset it, but Matt made the decision to compliment his butt-faced ugliness with a personality to match, maybe hoping to be so ugly in how he acts that his flat out grotesqueness in appearance might seem not so bad in comparison.
It is hard to understand how such an ugly, unintelligent, uneducated man as Drudge can wake up each day knowing he has to serve yet another day attacking good, decent people with hate and dishonest smears because he is but a desperate, completely dependent groveling slave of the right-wing hate-and-attack-America machine.
Rush had to physically destroy himself, losing even his hearing on top of his soul... How much will Drudge have to destroy of himself to continue his self-deprecating, own-country destroying daily assault on truth, decency, and basic American values?
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