Media Matters:

It's obvious that since Wall Street's meltdown commenced five weeks ago, and since America's economic crisis became a tsunami of a news story that's not only dominated the media landscape, but also irrevocably altered the course of the campaign, the Drudge Report has become largely irrelevant in terms of the setting the news agenda for the White House run.

That's because a story like the unfolding credit crisis [well, er... ] -- sober and complicated -- knocks Drudge completely out of his element of frivolous, partisan gotcha links.

Bill Clinton's haircut John Edwards hair Sarah Palin's makeup ... Well, thank The God(ess)(e)(s) Of Your Choice that Drudge has a monopoly on frivolous, partisan, gotcha links.

Much as I respect Media Matters and Eric Boehlert's stellar work, I could wish for a change to their mission statement:

... dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Right now, the Howler's the only one doing that; and if Bob Somerby goes up in the wrong small plane, we're doomed.