The popular conservative-leaning online news aggregator, Drudge Report, founded by news hound Matt Drudge, has had a tense relationship with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich since his first resurrection in the polls in late November of last year. The site’s editorial voice, expressed primarily in the resignation of headlines which link back to news outlets, has been decidedly anti-Gingrich for several months. On Thursday, however, the site went all in with its attempt to determine, once and for all, just how pro-Reagan Gingrich really was as a Congressman in the 1980s.
AS of this writing, Gingrich is taking a beating in the Drudge headline war: the aggregator has posted links to several critiques of Gingrich’s revisionism when it comes to his relationship with Ronald Reagan’s presidential administration. The center headline on the site right now links to Reagan Administration official Eliot Abram’s bombshell editorial in the National Review in which he claims that Reagan was repeatedly insulted by then-Congressman Gingrich.
Gingrich attacks the Reagan Administration from the right:
This is not all – Gingrich is the subject of two sub-columns of material attacking Gingrich: from his campaign’s admission that they did not offer anyone beyond his daughters to ABC News to refute the charges made by his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, to a column by conservative opinion writer Ann Coulter calling a vote for Newt a vote to reelect President Obama.
This is not the first occasion for Drudge’s conspicuous coverage of Gingrich’s impending implosion. During the Marianne Gingrich scandal, Drudge was the first to break ABC’s story and to let the world know of the “civil war” ongoing in the ABC newsroom over the ethicality of airing such an interview hours before the polls opened in South Carolina.
Drudge has gone “all in,” as they say. Lord knows, Gingrich captured the heart of conservative voters by taking on the “liberal media” at several debates. Now, it appears Gingrich will have to tackle the “conservative media” as well.
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