Drudge and Dowd: When Love Turns Bad
Little ditty about Matt and Maureen; two American kids writin' the best they can.
From today's New York Observer interview with Matt Drudge by Joe Hagan:
Mr. Drudge said he didn t read other blogs, but he admitted to enjoying Rosie O Donnell s blog entries dubbed by Ms. O Donnell as "the unedited rantings of a fat 43 year old menopausal ex-talk show host."
"She s the new Maureen Dowd now," he said. "Oh, Rosie s on fire. She s the must-read. We read Dowd second. It s true!"
(In an e-mail, Ms. Dowd said she didn t read the Drudge Report. "I m afraid I ll see something about myself," she wrote. "If he s got something good, I know I ll hear about it around the coffee machine.")
It wasn't always so. Maureen used to be the apple (or the cathexis) of Drudge's eye, according to a December 1997 Vanity Fair profile of Drudge by Jennet Conant:
There was the day Times columnist Maureen Dowd was trying to keep a low profile at an ABC press briefing, when Drudge materialized out of nowhere and began quizzing her about what she was up to. Not only did he recognize the writer, he told her that he and his friend Anita Hill-bashing writer David Brock had once paid a surprise visit to her Washington town house, hoping to catch her frying an omelette. But she wasn't home. 'You know where I live?' Dowd reportedly asked in horror.
Are we the only ones who think Drudge should've been cast as Nightcrawler in the X-Men movies?
Oh, and he had some stuff to say about Gawker and Wonkette, too. We could practically feel the spittle coming off of our screen. (The print edition of The Observer, thankfully, doubles as an absorbant blotter.)
