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April 21, 2009

If He's Going Into Seclusion, Can He Take Drudge Report With Him?

Item via Gawker "Matt Drudge Goes Into Hiding":

Days after Matt Drudge popped up to tell New York magazine about how he doesn't enjoy having sex with men, The New Republic looks into his descent into Howard Hughes-like isolation.

As Gabriel Sherman puts it, Drudge fears the media, which for some reason want to know things about the man who basically decides what will be on cable television every night.

So, Drudge is afraid he is teh Gay/afraid of being found out he is teh Gay/has halitosis/has poor personal hygiene/wears a dorky hat/has adult acne/dresses like Marilyn Monroe in his spare time/whatever.

Okay.

I should care (other than that makes him mockable) exactly why?

What I'd really like to know is not so much why Drudge is celebrity, but why he remains celebrity. Because he does the conservative mainstream media's job for them?

Didn't some Professional Jounalist™ call him America's Assignment Editor?

Well, if he's going to be going into seclusion, would it be too hard to take his risible website with him? He's probably made enough money off his hackery to retire young and have all the sex (that is totally not gay, no matter what David Brock and that gay stripper said in Out magazine) that he wants and can loathe himself in private where nobody has to look at him.

I can think of an upside and a downside to this:

Upside: Mark Halperin will have to do his own reporting.
Downside: Mark Halperin will hve to do his own reporting.

Posted by The Chinuk at April 21, 2009 08:16 PM