Matt Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC His father, Robert Matt Drudge, a former social worker, and his mother divorced when he was six.
24 Facts About Matt Drudge
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Matt Drudge had few friends and was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan.
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Matt Drudge graduated 341st out of a high school class of 355.
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Matt Drudge was unknown before he began the news aggregation site, the Matt Drudge Report.
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Matt Drudge took a job in the gift shop of CBS studios, eventually working his way up to manager.
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Worried about his son's aimlessness, Matt Drudge's father insisted on buying him a Packard Bell computer in 1994.
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The Matt Drudge Report began as email notes sent out to a few friends.
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In March 1995, the Matt Drudge Report had 1,000 email subscribers; by 1997, Matt Drudge had 85,000 subscribers to his email service.
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Matt Drudge's website gained in popularity in the late 1990s when he reported a number of stories before the mainstream media.
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Matt Drudge first received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election.
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Matt Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Matt Drudge Report.
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An article in The Miami Herald from September 2003 said that Matt Drudge estimated he earns $1.2 million a year from his website and radio show.
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For many years, Matt Drudge was based out of his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
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From June 1998 to November 1999, Matt Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Matt Drudge on the Fox News Channel.
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Matt Drudge had refused to go on air, charging Fox News with censorship when the network prevented him from showing photos of surgery on Samuel Armas.
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Matt Drudge, who opposes abortion, wanted to use a picture of a tiny hand reaching out from the womb to dramatize his argument against late-term abortion, but Fox's John Moody decided that that would be misleading because the photo was not of an abortion but an emergency operation on the fetus for spina bifida.
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Fox News alleged breach of contract but, after Matt Drudge issued an apology, Fox issued a statement calling the parting "amicable".
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Matt Drudge guest hosted for the conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
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Matt Drudge gained notice in the early 2000s by becoming a frequent reference for news material on Limbaugh's, Sean Hannity's, and Mark Levin's radio shows.
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Matt Drudge was often acknowledged by Michael Savage as a source of topics for The Savage Nation.
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Matt Drudge left his position as radio host with Premiere effective September 30,2007.
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Matt Drudge was replaced by Cincinnati radio station WLW's Bill Cunningham on the network and in most markets, though in a few larger markets, John Batchelor replaced him instead.
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Matt Drudge wrote a book with Julia Phillips in 2000 titled Matt Drudge Manifesto, which reached the New York Times Best Seller list.
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In 1998, Matt Drudge claimed that his politics are "libertarian except for drugs and abortion".