Posted 5:36 PM by Scoobie Davis

Matt Drudge’s Misleading Identification Smear
On the Drudge Report today, Matt Drudge featured a story about an obscure former Little League administrator arrested on child pornography charges. This item would not be particularly newsworthy except that the last name of the arrested man is Blumenthal (no relation to Drudge nemesis Sidney Blumenthal). Drudge apparently made the headline, “BLUMENTHAL INDICTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGE...” in the hope that readers would think it was Sidney who was arrested. Drudge is still smarting after Blumenthal sued Drudge for Drudge’s smear against him that he beat his wife. Even conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt denounced Drudge for the intentionally confusing headline. One would have hoped that Drudge would have learned from his previous misinformation fiasco, his spreading of the false rumor that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton presidency.