Matt Drudge fires back after Trump
claims Drudge Report readers
'dropping off like flies'
Washington Times,
by
Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/20/2020 11:13:18 AM
Matt Drudge of Drudge Report fame issued a rare public statement over the weekend after President Trump claimed his website’s readership was dropping.
“I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long ago, as have many others,” the president tweeted Saturday. “People are dropping off like flies!” Mr. Trump and his supporters have noticed a shift in Mr. Drudge’s coverage of the president in the past year, accusing the longtime conservative must-read of adopting a leftist bent. Multiple conservative news aggregators, including Dan Bongino’s The Bongino Report, have since launched in an effort to scoop up Mr. Drudge’s readers.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/20/2020 11:16:40 AM (No. 385468)
I stopped when it turned liberal about 2 years ago.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SouthTxRat 4/20/2020 11:17:00 AM (No. 385469)
No more for me for over a year now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/20/2020 11:19:57 AM (No. 385476)
Drudge? What's a Drudge?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 4/20/2020 11:22:54 AM (No. 385482)
Drudge sold out over a year ago.
I still go there sometimes to see what the demomedia has to say.
But the guy that held truth to power in the Clinton obstruction of justice is long gone.
From a hero to a zero. We can honor the memory.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/20/2020 11:28:04 AM (No. 385488)
I thought it was weird a while back when he kept posting articles on sex dolls, then quit reading him entirely when he went full anti-Trump. I haven't visited his website in months, if not a year.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 4/20/2020 11:31:53 AM (No. 385493)
I used to read Drudge every day. The page refresh drove me crazy but I tolerated it. I haven't been to Drudge in about a year. I don't tolerate turn-coats. The conservative sites that have sprung up to fill the void suit me fine. If I wanted leftist news I would go to CNN or one of their friends. Leftist news sites are a dime a dozen.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
KanCreeper 4/20/2020 11:33:53 AM (No. 385497)
Personally, I only 6 months ago, back out of Drudge's Content. But just 'check it out' from time to time...Not much there BUT!
FTA:"... despite Mr. Trump’s claim, Mr. Drudge said his web traffic is better than ever.."
I think that is just pure hogwash...WHAT I DID NOTICE IS....The practice of 'forced reloading' of the website is getting more and more frequent! It used to do it about once a minute; now it seems to 'reload' multiple times in a minute!
That is a truly dishonest way to jack up the click count on a website...Seems Drudge and his new owners are certainly good at that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/20/2020 11:35:04 AM (No. 385502)
I noticed the leftward trend over a year ago.
The last time I visited Drudge was on Black Friday, when its headline that day blared something about disappointing sales, when in fact we had record sales that day.
Drudge has just become another leftist fake news outlet.
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I'm still looking for proof of life. An e-mail doesn't cut it. I suspect a victim of the Clintons.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/20/2020 11:39:27 AM (No. 385510)
I use it as a platform to go to other spots like Lucianne. Should probably stop! Haven't read Drudge for over a year! Nothing to see but liberal tripe!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 4/20/2020 11:44:24 AM (No. 385522)
matt i read you for years i now stopped 2 years ago
you are so vicious an bias i go to rantingly they are in the middle
they are taking your readers.....trump is right...you make your bed
ly in it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/20/2020 11:45:49 AM (No. 385525)
This one ain't your Daddy's Matt Drudge. Someone, something got to him and worked him over since way back when a lot of us thought he was a ''babe.''
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 4/20/2020 11:47:12 AM (No. 385529)
maybe he has a new gay lover that hates trump
and he listens i cannot see anything else someone on his
staff well they are all gay drudge is gay /jewish so something happenned
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
judy 4/20/2020 11:59:40 AM (No. 385547)
Drudge & Coulter both went bonkers years ago......
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/20/2020 12:11:19 PM (No. 385560)
I stopped reading Drudge as soon as I saw he was an anti-Trumper. That was probably 3 years ago
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/20/2020 12:18:47 PM (No. 385569)
Drudge Report can protest all they want to. They turned to the dark side, and that is their new reality. They made their decision, now live with it kiddies.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 4/20/2020 12:20:02 PM (No. 385571)
Like a lot of other Ldotters, I was a frequent browser at Drudge, even before he broke the Lewinsky/clinton scandal. I found Lucianne.com through his site, so I thank him for that. But I dropped him well over a year ago when it became obvious he had turned to the dark side.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
john56 4/20/2020 12:20:24 PM (No. 385572)
I used to reac Drudge daily. If I've seen it in the past six months, I'd be surprised.
But I notice El Rushbo often has it on his screens in the EIB Broadcast Studio.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DonQuijote 4/20/2020 12:28:27 PM (No. 385581)
I dropped off of Drudge several months ago. I go to Bongino now. Why was Drudge so defensive about loosing viewership?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
starbaby 4/20/2020 12:33:13 PM (No. 385590)
I will be forever grateful to Drudge Report, that's where I found Lucianne (from a link on the home page many moons ago). But haven't visited the site in I don't know how long and see no reason to ever go back. Life's too short to waste time reading garbage.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bobmadison 4/20/2020 12:43:03 PM (No. 385607)
Deleted it 3 or 4 months ago.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 12:44:39 PM (No. 385610)
Drudge used to be conservatives....but all those people are gone.
Apparently the leftists searching for leftist lies are taking up the slack.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 12:45:18 PM (No. 385612)
Drudge used to be my home page for about 20 years or more. I have not been there even once in at least a couple of years.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
andyboy 4/20/2020 12:46:40 PM (No. 385615)
Thanks for the memories, Drudge. Hope you're making enough new liberal friends to replace the millions of conservatives you've alienated. I've moved on to the Bongino Report, BeigePage, and Whatfinger -- and life is good.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
greggojo 4/20/2020 12:50:00 PM (No. 385619)
Drudge made a severe Left turn a lot more than a year ago. I haven't visited the site for at least two years. (I'm glad that Lucianne posts breaking headlines.)
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/20/2020 12:55:10 PM (No. 385633)
DRUDGE sold out a while back, very sorry to say. Whoever is in charge now is seeing what paying the price for arrogance means-you lost your audience because they were SMARTER than you, trying to indoctrinate them with Leftist bullshit.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
starboard 4/20/2020 1:01:28 PM (No. 385642)
An observation. Is Breitbart over-sensationalizing with stupid stuff these days, or am I over-sensitive to everything
anti-Trump?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Grounded 4/20/2020 1:08:22 PM (No. 385654)
I fear Matt has gone the way of David Brock. And probably for the same reason: thinking with his little head instead of his big one.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
cold porridge 4/20/2020 1:16:24 PM (No. 385664)
thelibertydaily looks and is designed the same as drudge used to be, but it is conservative. To me, it is like having the old drudge back. Other good ones are Whatfinger and Johnbwellsnews, but Lucianne is still the best!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
BillW. 4/20/2020 1:22:39 PM (No. 385675)
Drudge got me here. I've never gone back. And even sites like American Thinker allow nasty comments from lefty nitwits, something L.com never does. That matters. --Vets for Trump 2020
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There will always be an audience for the propaganda that people like Drudge disseminate. But that doesn't make it right or true.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/20/2020 1:51:14 PM (No. 385696)
Notice that Matt doesn't challenge the claim that he has changed his slant from conservative to Leftist.
He only challenged the alleged drop in viewership, but we know better.
Drudge has been dead to me for over 3 years, and haven't even visited that site
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/20/2020 2:01:07 PM (No. 385702)
Flaming attention seeking prostitute. That's all Drudge has ever been. His huge claim to fame is he at one time actually had links to stories the MSM tried to bury. Now he is following their script. It is obvious and about as smart as Dick's deciding guns didn't belong in their outdoors section.
I get all the media lies here, but with actual facts I will never find on drudge. For headlines, protrumpnews, works great. Drudge and his stupid hat can enjoy their new love in with the left. Hope they enjoy the insults from the zealots who will always hate drudge no matter what he does or how low he panders when he tries to take up the slack for all the conservatives/normal people he burned.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2020 2:35:57 PM (No. 385730)
President Trump knows what his going on because it has been common knowledge. We have talked about it here for the last number of years… Drudge went off the rails that made him. IMO, he was a colossal fake...
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
JayD 4/20/2020 2:49:52 PM (No. 385736)
All Drudge has to do to keep his hit numbers up is to reduce the amount of time between the annoying automatic reloads. "Oh, hits have dropped by 25%? Decrease the refresh rate from once every 160 seconds to every 120 seconds." Pretty sure it was once set to four minutes, and it's at two minutes now.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 4/20/2020 3:05:51 PM (No. 385749)
i stopped long ago. i freak when it accidently pops up and get off of it. couldnt handle all the fake news he was highlighting
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
cahaba2 4/20/2020 4:11:54 PM (No. 385802)
I look at Drudge every day because it is informative to know what the opposition is posting.
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Somehow Drudge thought his followers were stupid enough to follow along going to the dark side. It didn't work.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/20/2020 5:09:00 PM (No. 385846)
President Trump is correct. Drudge Report has move far left. The last time I was on that site was over six months ago. Haven't gone back since. The site that I do go to now with the exact format is:
protrumpnews.com
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
HoundOfDoom 4/20/2020 5:10:07 PM (No. 385848)
I was going to read the article, but then realized IDGAF what Drudge has to say.
Matt's 15 minutes have expired.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
joew9 4/20/2020 5:18:03 PM (No. 385853)
I started going to the DrudgeReport back when I could send him an email and he would respond to me.
I congratulated him when he finally got 100k hits in one month. And he emailed back.
But now I am strictly Liberty Daily, Rantingly, WhatFinger, Bongino, American Thinker, Taki Mag. So many alternatives. Why bother with Drudge.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 4/20/2020 5:46:33 PM (No. 385862)
Informed word on the street is that Drudge sold the company, and is under legal agreement as part of the transaction not to disavow its current coverage.
So he's not a renegade. Perhaps only a commercial whore.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
msjena 4/20/2020 5:48:21 PM (No. 385865)
I have deleted my Drudge bookmarks. Aside from its anti-Trump bent, it is all doom and gloom. I think someone made Drudge an offer too big to refuse. Sad!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/20/2020 5:48:51 PM (No. 385866)
David Brock, Matt Drudge ... homosexuals who started out as conservatives then did a 180.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Bohallx 4/20/2020 6:23:03 PM (No. 385885)
Matt stopped looking for free sources for stories and began referring to a bushel basket full of PAYWALL stories ~ in the NYT, the Warshpost, etc.
It was obviously a case of secret agreements combined with greed leading to WWIII against his own readers.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
alaskaal 4/20/2020 6:45:47 PM (No. 385900)
I no longer visit Drudge. Too depressing, the reporting has really slipped.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/20/2020 7:15:09 PM (No. 385919)
Drudge is a sham.
He puffs up his web site hit by having an 'automatic reload' every 4-5 minutes or so.
I found that years ago and sent him a complaint...of course he never answered, just kept ripping off advertisers...Now he's sold out to the Lefties, Hey Soros, how much did Drudge Cost you?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/20/2020 10:03:31 PM (No. 386018)
I guess I’m the only one here who goes to Drudge every day. That doesn’t mean I like everything on there, but I am tough enough that I don’t need an echo chamber 24/7. As for the gay/ homosexual comments, are they really necessary? Don’t be like liberals who constantly get into the name calling.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/20/2020 10:21:39 PM (No. 386030)
I'm one of the flies. Quit reading when Breitbart decided to go to the dark side!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/20/2020 10:57:54 PM (No. 386059)
I started every morning with coffee and Drudge. ....not anymore.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
msjena 4/21/2020 10:36:30 AM (No. 386462)
I sometimes go to Drudge to find out how the stock market is doing. If it is up, there will not nothing about it on his site about it. If there is a big drop, the news will be blasted in a red-letter headline.
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