Political Leanings
Matt Drudge has said that he is a conservative, but "more of a populist". Some regard it as conservative in tone, and has been referred to in the media as "a conservative news aggregator". More recently Richard Siklos, an editor of Fortune magazine, called the Drudge Report a "conservative bullhorn", the Los Angeles Times labelled Drudge a "well-known conservative warrior", the New York Times referred to him as a "conservative muckraker", and Glenn Greenwald called him a "right-wing hack". Greenwald also wrote that the Drudge Report (inter alia) is part of the "Bush/Cheney right-wing noise machine",
The New Republic's Jesse Swick notes that the Drudge Report frequently links to stories that cast doubt upon global warming. " loves a press release from Senator Inhofe almost as much as he loves taking pot shots at Al Gore...It’s like flashing tasty images of popcorn and sodas between frames at movie theaters, only much less subtle." Ben Shapiro of townhall.com wrote "The American left can't restrict Internet usage or ban talk radio, so it de-legitimizes these news sources. Ripping alternative news sources as illegitimate is the left's only remaining option -- it cannot compete with the right wing in the new media....They call Matt Drudge a muckraker and a yellow journalist."
A 2005 study (see details) placed the Drudge Report "left of center." "One thing people should keep in mind is that our data for the Drudge Report was based almost entirely on the articles that the Drudge Report lists on other Web sites," said Groseclose, the head of the study. "Very little was based on the stories that Matt Drudge himself wrote. The fact that the Drudge Report appears left of center is merely a reflection of the overall bias of the media." The study was criticised by Mark Liberman and liberal media watchdogs.
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