By RegoPark
Contributing Blogger

Ever the libertarian, Drudge devoted last Sunday’s show to the common theme of privacy issues…particularly the Patty Hearst Symbionese Liberation kidnapping - OOPS! I mean, the Paris Hilton Sidekick hacking. I did think it amusing that he wasn’t above calling all those private numbers on Paris’s “golden cell rolodex” himself to find someone to comment. As a rule, he doesn’t go out of his way to get comments on stories. Even the unknown comedian whom Matt interviewed on-air received hundreds of calls…which reminds me of another little blast from the past…

Circa 2000, MSNBC gossip columnist Jeannette Walls released Dish, which alleged that Matt had gay relationships. Caveat: I do not believe this rumor. I have read this book in its entirety, of which only 4 pages are devoted to Drudge, and I have serious questions about her sources and context - and those of the other gay rumors — which I want to get into more thoroughly in a longer entry. While Walls said that “my publisher and I absolutely stand by every word I’ve said,” it seems neither felt behooven to include Jeannette’s source’s other tidbits - that Matt allegedly preferred smearing raw eggs on naked guys, once had a bad case of crabs, and liked to have sex fully clothed in the shower. (Remember: a rumor is all in the packaging. And she wasn’t too grossed out to print a story about Robert Mitchum smearing ketchup all over himself, as she claimed to be about the eggs. )

Matt responded with the following headline: “Drudge had sex with eggs! Share your own Drudge sex stories with Jeannette Walls.” Hundreds of people contacted her via private number and e-mail. Strangely enough, none of them offered her new Drudge gossip.

Hypocrisy? I’m not so sure. With Walls, he did what was most hateful unto him. With Hilton, well, he finds people’s private numbers at Switchboard.com anyway, and - what can we say, our Matt just couldn’t resist.

RegoPark is a pseudonym for a writer with a background in marketing communications. She is currently working on a novel about PR and the alternative media.