Matt Drudge

Matthew Nathan Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website that also breaks major news stories. Drudge is self-described as being conservative and populist. Drudge has also authored a book and hosted a radio show and a television show. Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC. His parents are Reform Jewish Democrats who both worked for the federal government, and he is their only child. His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www.refdesk.com, and his mother, a former staff attorney for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six. Drudge went to live with his mother. He had few friends and was...