Matt Drudge

Matthew Nathan "Matt" Drudge (born October 28, 1966) is an American political commentator, and the creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a politically conservative American news aggregator. Drudge is also an author; he was a radio show host and a television show host. 2Early life and education Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. His parents follow Reform Judaism. Both are Democrats who worked for the federal government, and he is their only child. His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site 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 an avid news reader and radio talk show fan. In his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge says that he "failed his Bar Mitzvah", and graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, giving himself, in his words, a "more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post at 7-Eleven". In the 1980s, Drudge worked as a telemarketer for Time-Life Books. 2Career 3Drudge Report Drudge was unknown before he began the news aggregation site, the Drudge Repor