Staff / TruthdigFeb 27, 2008
It wasn't the easiest moment in Tuesday's Democratic debate for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, but both candidates handled it well when moderator Brian Williams broached the uncomfortable subject of the photo, leaked to the Drudge Report early Monday for apparently political purposes, of Obama wearing traditional African garb in Kenya. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 26, 2008
On Monday morning, The Drudge Report featured a photo of Barack Obama in traditional Kenyan dress taken during his 2006 visit to the African nation. Obama aides are angrily accusing Clinton's team of leaking the photo in an attempt to put off voters (with a heaping dose of "ethnicity," apparently) at a particularly auspicious moment, but Clinton's camp has denied that it released the picture. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 16, 2008
It wasn't so long ago that Matt Drudge and Rupert Murdoch's minions cooed over Hillary Clinton's centrism, but in the end the self-styled titans of right-wing media couldn't resist bashing her, much to their readers' delight. Politico chronicles the rise and fall of conservatives' brief love affair with Hillary Clinton. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigDec 21, 2007
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has been picking up momentum, but now the candidate finds himself in a war of words with the Drudge Report. On Thursday, McCain vehemently denied that, as was posted on Drudge, he once gave "special treatment" to a lobbyist and has been trying to pressure The New York Times to kill the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 23, 2006
We usually don't like to point to mud fights, but on something as deadly serious as global warming, we thought it proper to call out conservative Internet kingpin Matt Drudge, who tried to peddle the apparently false story that Gore & Co. were hypocritically environmentally unfriendly at the Cannes Film Festival. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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