# Is the Drudge Report conservative? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487 "2006-03-30T01:29:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/1 "2006-03-30T01:29:41Z")
I just want some opinions, there should be no need to move this to GD. A few of my friends insist that the Drudge Report is conservative, because Matt Drudge is. I am more of the liberal persuasion, and I find The Drudge Report to be fairly even-handed. Maybe current events are forcing Matt to admit the obvious, and there is not much room for spin. Since it’s mostly a link site to other news agencies, the majority of spinning would be done by selecting articles that would be favorable to Matt’s position. Sometime I think it’s more of a liberal site than anything. Opinions? Oh, [www.drudgereport.com](http://www.drudgereport.com) ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/2 "2006-03-30T03:56:12Z")
Technically yes, but barely. I think basically Drudge is just out for the biggest stories. If it makes conservatives looks like schmucks thems the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/3 "2006-03-30T05:11:25Z")
It’s part heavy-conservative/part capitalistic. When money is involved, e.g., a juicy scandal about a conservative that will bring in people, then politics doesn’t matter. When money is not involved it is conservative to a very scary degree. Note that the occasional bash on a conservative allows it to be labelled as part of the vast liberal media conspiracy so that it can be hailed when it does one of it’s standard conservatives=good, liberal=evil pieces. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/4 "2006-03-30T06:00:11Z")
Most things that I identify as conservative values make me cringe, I would think that a large number of pro-conservative articles would stand out to me. However, I’ve yet to get the impression that Drudge caters mostly to conservative values. I’m even looking for it these days. I guess I’m just clicking on the links that I like the titles of. As long as there are articles that suit my ideals, I guess I can’t complain if the site is construed as being conservative. Could I be that oblivious? Matt Drudge is gay right? I’m so confused. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/5 "2006-03-30T15:32:27Z")
I read a study a couple of years ago on media bias, and one of the surprising findings of it was that the **Drudge Report** landed smack dab on the median of the bias scale. In other words, it was the most even-handed of all the media outlets measured. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/6 "2006-03-30T16:12:57Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Most things that I identify as conservative values make me cringe, I would think that a large number of pro-conservative articles would stand out to me. However, I’ve yet to get the impression that Drudge caters mostly to conservative values. I’m even looking for it these days. I guess I’m just clicking on the links that I like the titles of. As long as there are articles that suit my ideals, I guess I can’t complain if the site is construed as being conservative. > > Could I be that oblivious? Matt Drudge is gay right? I’m so confused. Matt’s been alleged to be gay, but it’s not certain. Matt did part ways with Fox News over his making anti-abortion points from a photo of a tiny fetus holding the finger of a doctor doing surgery - FNN’s complaint was that he was using a photo to make a point irrelevant to the context of the photo, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/7 "2006-03-31T00:55:38Z")
Matt Drudge is a rumor processor, and he plainly admits he never checks anything. The right wing noise machine has learned to use him, though, and he’s a willing conscript or maybe a dupe. When the Rove/Norquist strategic council writes the Talking Point for the day, you’ll see it first in Drudge. Then it will be obediently parroted by virtually every talking face at Fox News, and amplified by Limbaugh, O’Reilly, John Leo, Jonah Goldberg, and every Republican politico who steps in front of a microphone that day. Check it yourself, and you’ll see it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/8 "2006-03-31T01:19:59Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > I read a study a couple of years ago on media bias, and one of the surprising findings of it was that the **Drudge Report** landed smack dab on the median of the bias scale. So who did the study? I mean, I wouldn’t trust anything that the [Media Research Center](http://www.mrc.org/welcome.asp) serves up farther than I can throw a Chevy Suburban. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/9 "2006-03-31T13:52:26Z")
I think he got the rep for being conservative because he broke the Lewinsky scandal when the big networks wanted to look the other way. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/10 "2006-03-31T14:30:22Z")
I like Drudge. And I enjoy reveling in the discomfort that he provides to others. That said, he picks up way way WAY more stories that the right would like to see posted than the left. I agree that that is probably due simply more from the right-wing-noise-machine producing more noise. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/11 "2006-03-31T15:25:18Z")
My observation is that Drudge doesn’t make up or ignore news – but he practices a peculiar brand of "_Well they did it too_"ism that leans very right e.g. Remember the Cheney Diva demands on the Hotel Room? 1 day on Drudge. There were some fairly innocuous guidelines (& I get that YMMV on this comparatively – these were requests not demands phrasing like “in the event you wish to provide”) that Kerry had made as well during the campaign: 3 days of links on Drudge 2 after the Cheney story had died There were 3 separate “Democrats took Abramoff Money too” links in the days immediately after the Delay Indictment. Except for the first day when there were 3 related links – Delay’s story stayed as a single link for 2 days. This is where I first really noticed this and started tracking it. One possible non-political explanation : What I think he may be trying to do is drive the news – “As reported on Matt Drudge” and when the MSM won’t pick it up he drops it. Not saying “so“, just saying “maybe“. Oh & I am sure of one bias. I think he really, really hates the French (& I am not kidding) anything negative about France makes it - the litmus for non-U.S. news seems to me to be A. Affects the U.S., B. Is really interesting or unusual or noteworthy, C. Highlights something going wrong in France. Being Funny - but not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Bertie\_Wooster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bertie\_Wooster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bertie_Wooster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/12 "2006-03-31T19:03:55Z")
Mr Drudge may himself be conservative, but the most apt word for the _Drudge Report_ is “imprecise”. Will what you read in it be true? Maybe yes, maybe no, but there’s no way of being sure without an outside confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/13 "2006-03-31T20:01:00Z")
As non-germane factoid IIRC Matt Drudge is _very_ into trance and techno club music and has very specifc opinions about a variety of Miami club DJs. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-drudge-report-conservative/350487/14 "2006-03-31T20:38:24Z")
From listening to him on the radio I get more of a libertarian vibe rather than conservative. But above all else he is an attention whore.