Losing The Narrative?

A reader writes:

Is is just me, or has Drudge lost some serious credibility this year?

We’ve always known he was conservative, but the media tended to follow his lead anyway. Since the primary, though, his headline choices have been so one-sided (where only outlying polls showing a tight race are printed in red, and bogus controversies like Obama’s 2001 redistribution quote are given a full-day headline), that Drudge’s spell has been broken. He’s not driving our focus anymore. The media seems to be ignoring him, and although I still check his page regularly, he’s no longer my first stop for political news (that’s you and politico). I check in on him with more of a vague curiosity these days, like Huffington Post, to see what the ideologues are talking about. It feels like the end of an era, and I wonder if he’ll come back from it.

I don’t know what happened. I loved the old Drudge Report, and I hope it comes back soon. Maybe he’s positioning to be the opposition to Obama. It will certainly help Drudge if he goes back into opposition. But from there, he needs to channel the smart opposition, not the dumb, paranoid and bigoted one.