By RegoPark
Contributing Weblogger

I promise, that’ll be the most tasteless title I’ll ever post here. It was yesterday in 1998 that Bill Clinton admitted that there was, in fact, merit to a certain screaming headline on the Drudge Report.

Now, I voted for Bill both times. I was one of the 15 American people who didn’t believe the hype about that woman, Miss Lewinsky, until he appeared on-camera with that everybody-else-culpa confession. I don’t think the transgressions were time-sensitive and security-sensitive enough to justify the time and taxes spent in the Starr investigation. At the time, I assumed most politicians screwed around and didn’t know what the fuss was all about. Heck, I don’t even recall knowing who Matt was until years after the fact. (I was taking a vacation from TV around that time, so I never saw his smiling mug on Nightline.) All I knew was that Bill Clinton was the most tightly scrutinized president in the history of the United States from Inauguration Day on…and surely, nobody who busted his rear that hard to get to the Oval Office would be that stupid and self-destructive.

But as luck and a project would have it, I carefully studied the matter retrospectively from all angles. I now feel that whatever Matt Drudge’s limitations, there was, in fact, a security issue that justified the investigation into this seemingly private affair.

Drudge/Clinton Trivia #1: Matt’s mother, who is a liberal attorney, volunteered in the Clinton White House in the first part of his term. She turned on him, though, according to Matt’s 2003 interview in Radar. (What good Jewish mom supports a president who calls her little boy Sludge?)

Drudge/Clinton Trivia #2: Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Monica Lewinsky was the valedictorian of Bel Air Prep School. Matt Drudge barely graduated from high school.

Anyway, our boy’s frying bigger fish now. For what it’s worth, happy anniversary, Drudge. You made it happen.

And happy anniversary, Bill and Monica. You made it happen.