[Kerrigan]

Drudge has been reviled by the left for the conservative subtext of his reporting. Since the earliest days of his influential website he has linked to news stories which in some way or other dovetail with conservative views. Case in point: he has posted several links to stories claiming that some measure of WMDs have been discovered in Iraq.

But times have change, and so has Matt Drudge.

Now, as an aside, Matt Drudge has been outed by several people over the years. He has ineffectually denied being gay by saying that while he does "go to gay bars" he has "only dated" . . . . whatever that means. How does his personal life have any bearing on his politics? Well, we all know about the gay-straight dialectic, and it is somewhat of an axiom that gay men are expected to embrace the liberal cause as a means for attaining acceptance and toleration. It is reasonable to suppose, then, that as Drudge moves out of the closet, he will identify more and more with the liberal establishment.

But even disregarding his personal lifestyle, it appears that Drudge no longer has that conservative tilt. I began to notice this when Drudge, on his radio program, expressed a very eccentric pro-Hillary sentiment. Even so, pundits have noted that Obama won the "Drudge primary", as Drudge has reported favorably on Obama for some time.

Not only that, there are rarely any stories that show McCain in a positive light. In recent weeks, all of Drudge's links on McCain have highlighted his age, his mediocre rhetoric, and the long odds he has against Obama. How can we really call Drudge a conservative?

Besides this, if I were to summarize my impression of the Drudge Report, I would say that it is a site chiefly devoted to reporting climate disasters, bizarre futuristic developments, rubbish celebrity news, and the decline of America. For all of these reasons, I no longer think that Drudge is a conservative source for news.

[Randman]

He goes where the money is.

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by Randman 

He goes where the money is.

... and will lose readership. There's no money in liberal media.

[Chongo]

Originally Posted by Randman 

He goes where the money is.

Like David Brock

[stupendousman]

He goes back and forth. I think he likes testing the power he has. Lifting Hillary up....letting her back down. Lifting Obama up....maybe letting him back down. It almost seems as the candidates fortunes rise or fall based on whether Drudge is showing bias for or against them.

[Chongo]

I don't remember when the photo was taken or which campaign, I think it was Billary's, on a computer in the background you could see the "Drudge Report" on the screen. They do realize the impact his site has. He claims it was Billary's staff that gave him the Obama photo in the tribal garb.

[Atheist]

Who's Matt Drudge?

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

Not only that, there are rarely any stories that show McCain in a positive light. In recent weeks, all of Drudge's links on McCain have highlighted his age, his mediocre rhetoric, and the long odds he has against Obama. How can we really call Drudge a conservative?

What has pointing out some basic truths about McCain got to do with being a conservative?

[tie]

I agree with Crash. (Perhaps, though, you just didn't phrase your post the way you meant?) Being conservative isn't the same as rooting for a sports team. Fiscally, Obama is more conservative than McCain, and Bush was hardly a conservative in the original sense of the term. So maybe identifying "being conservative" with "blindly supporting Republicans" isn't accurate these days.

[nonhuman]

The only people I know who read Drudge are liberals. Having never read his site myself, I always just assumed it was a liberal news site...