And of course, the right wing blogs and the right wing media (like Rush Limbaugh) ate it up.
Conservative heavyweight Matt Drudge has all but retracted a story about Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean after receiving a letter from the DNC’s lawyers, RAW STORY can report.
Saying he took the DNC at their word — and declining to mention the fact he had received a letter from a DNC lawyer asking him to take the story down — Drudge posted an update to a story claiming that Chairman Dean had intervened in the New Orleans mayoral race. His update noted that the DNC had vehemently denied the report.