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 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
severalcritiques
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
Reviewin 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." 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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