how did Drudge get to be so influential? It seems like he's just a random guy with a blog who got the idea to scan the Internets and tabloids before other people did.
He broke the Monica Lewinksy story, and many others.
What would those many other stories be?
He's basically living on something he did 10 years ago. A nice gig if you can get it.
The Swift Boaters for Truth claims, the Obama Somali photo, Prince Harry in Afghanistan...
oftentimes campaigns will leak news to Drudge first too, generally he gets to the news first and has a great nose for what will be driving the news of the day (when he's not giving a BJ to the GOP
).
