Drudge Disses The GOP Debate: The ‘Benghazi’ Movie Ad Was Better!

Matt Drudge carries a laptop computer as he walks up the stairs at his Hollywood-area apartment in Los Angeles June 18, 1997. The Drudge Report, the daily barrage of breaking news, gossip and politics he e-mails to s... Matt Drudge carries a laptop computer as he walks up the stairs at his Hollywood-area apartment in Los Angeles June 18, 1997. The Drudge Report, the daily barrage of breaking news, gossip and politics he e-mails to some 65,000 subscribers, is hotter than hot. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield) MORE LESS
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Matt Drudge, founder of the conservative monolith Drudge Report, took a dig at Tuesday night’s GOP presidential debate by tweeting soon after it ended that a brief ad for a movie about the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack was “more effective against Hillary” than any of the candidates.

An advertisement for Michael Bay’s “13 Hours” was shown during a commercial break in the Fox Business debate.

Drudge is notorious for deleting his tweets, so here’s a screengrab of it:

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  1. It’s Drudge. Why would I want to comment?

  2. Hell, I didn’t know Drudge was still around. I thought he changed his name to Kory Watkins and became an open-carry doosh in Texas.

  3. Well, at least he’s not hiding the reason he’s carrying that low-hanging gun. Projection–or wishful thinking, perhaps–on his part.

  4. Is that the only picture of that jerk TPM has? Its the only one I ever see whenever an article is about him. That picture must be from years ago. I’m surprised that douchebag is still around.

  5. That looks a lot like Roger Federer’s unathletic younger brother…

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