Perhaps you do not remember how Drudge became prominent.  Newsweek had the complete Monica Lewinsky blue dress / Bill Clinton semen story. Clinton’s famous lie to the American people and also under oath that “I did not have sex with that women” was provably false. Bill Clinton’s semen was found on Lewinsky’s dress through DNA testing.  This story was spiked by Newsweek because according to many it was hurtful to the Clinton administration.  Drudge took the story, verified it and exposed both the lying President and the corrupted media protecting him.  The media does carry the water of the Democratic Party to this day.