Reply #8: He also wrote a book with John Harris

[karynnj]

on the 2004 election, where he referred to Matt Drudge as the "Edwards R. Murrow of our generation". The first chapter, which was at the time the book came out available on the web, backed that claim by using a story of what was really a not very damaging dirty trick he did.

In 2003, Matt Drudge took the information that John Kerry got a hair cut at a top DC place for $75 into a story that he completely manufactured out of whole cloth. He claimed that Kerry spent $1000 for styling, coloring, and highlighting and included fictitious quotes from non existent stylists to the effect that Kerry was very fussy and vain about his hair. Although the book said that both the Kerry campaign and the salon immediately denied the story, they still felt this was incredibly clever and worked to frame Kerry negatively.

What I got from this was that neither of these men could ever again be considered journalists.