{"id":1461919,"date":"2022-05-03T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461919"},"modified":"2022-05-03T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:29:49","slug":"wapo-reporter-says-she-was-joking-when-she-accused-drudge-report-editor-of-vowing-to-blast-my-name-until-it-ruins-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-reporter-says-she-was-joking-when-she-accused-drudge-report-editor-of-vowing-to-blast-my-name-until-it-ruins-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Reporter Says She Was \u2018Joking\u2019 When She Accused Drudge Report Editor Of Vowing To \u2018Blast My Name\u2019 Until It \u2018Ruins My Career\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-reporter-says-she-was-joking-when-she-accused-drudge-report-editor-of-vowing-to-blast-my-name-until-it-ruins-my-career%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461919&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2019\/09\/matt_drudge_gi.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Taylor Lorenz is a reporter with The Washington Post who was roundly ripped last month after she named the woman behind Libs of TikTok, an anonymous Twitter account that retweets videos posted by leftists to expose their radicalism.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she posted tweet on the social media site accusing the Drudge Report of threatening to ruin her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter calling and texting me relentlessly for a week, the Drudge Report editor just called my personal cell phone number, yelled at me when I asked him to leave me alone and said he would \u2018blast my name all over Drudge Report until it ruins my career,&#8217;\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz has since deleted the tweet..<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz\u2019 accusation was quite serious. Matt Drudge, the reclusive blogger who first reported on Monica Lewinsky\u2019s affair with President Bill Clinton, runs a tight ship at his Drudge Report (Disclaimer: the author of this piece ran the website in the mornings for several years).<\/p>\n<p>The allegation prompted Oliver Darcy, CNN\u2019s senior media reporter, to reach out to Drudge, who lives on a sprawling compound in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@DRUDGE himself contacted @TaylorLorenz to ask for a correction after she said in tweets that a Drudge editor had harassed her. Drudge told me no one \u2018associated with the DRUDGE REPORT\u2019 had contacted her prior. Lorenz says her tweets were mostly a joke,\u201d Darcy wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaPo\u2019s Taylor Lorenz walked back an allegation on Monday that an editor for the Drudge Report had repeatedly harassed her after she was contacted by Matt Drudge himself. Lorenz tweeted Monday that she had bene \u2018relentlessly\u2019 harassed by a Drudge Report editor who had threatened to use the site to destroy her career. It was a serious allegation and so I checked in with Drudge who told me that he had \u2018never contacted her, nor has anyone associated with the DRUDGE REPORT.\u2019 Drudge, who made clear to me he was not pleased with the allegations against his site, forwarded me an email he had sent Lorenz asking for a correction,\u201d Darcy wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Lorenz received Drudge\u2019s request, she deleted her tweets and posted a clarification: \u2018For anyone who saw my post abt this man claiming to be from Drudge calling me non stop, good news: I heard from Matt Drudge &#038; this man has zero power over Drudge! He\u2019s claiming to be an editor all over the internet but he\u2019s not. Sorry to disappoint everyone saying Drudge is based.\u2019 Lorenz told me that her initial tweets were a \u2018joke\u2019 and that she found the idea someone could harm her career via the Drudge Report \u2018hilarious.\u2019 Lorenz said she was \u2018laughing very hard about the idea\u2019 and was simply joking about it online. \u2018I am happy to correct the record that I have no drama with Drudge Report,\u2019 Lorenz told me,\u201d Darcy wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy continued, \u201cA WaPo spox said: \u2018Taylor was repeatedly contacted by someone who claimed to be a Drudge editor. As soon as she learned the person had no connection to the Drudge Report, she deleted the original tweet and wrote a tweet apologizing for her comment\u2026&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DRUDGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DRUDGE<\/a> himself contacted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TaylorLorenz<\/a> to ask for a correction after she said in tweets that a Drudge editor had harassed her. Drudge told me no one &#8220;associated with the DRUDGE REPORT&#8221; had contacted her prior. Lorenz says her tweets were mostly a joke. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/At1XFWIdDb\">https:\/\/t.co\/At1XFWIdDb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XZsOgHQDIX\">pic.twitter.com\/XZsOgHQDIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliverdarcy\/status\/1521346779018629125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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