Ok, there’s cold as in getting a blank stare when slipping the maitre d’ a 20 spot, or in getting nothing but the hair-flip-turn-and-burn upon offering to buy a girl a drink [is it hot in here?], and then there’s, well, COLD.

Last Thursday, Matt Drudge went arctic [Who left the fridge open?]

The Drudge Report on Thursday posted a link to a story about Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid referring to town hall protesters as "evil-mongers." The link — which, coming from the Drudge Report, El Aggregator Supremo, generates somewhere along the lines of eleventy billion "unique viewers" to the dying news outlet of Drudge’s choice — directs readers to a story about Reid’s comment on The Hill’s "Briefing Room" blog.

Score one for The Hill! Not so much, though, for Politics Daily, which just so happens to be, um, the source of The Hill’s blog "item." And not just the source for part of The Hill’s blog item; it’s kinda, like, the whole thing, just… re-blog-gitated.

So while Eric Zimmerman rides high off of his latest Drudge bomb [Should we be keeping score?], poor old Jill Lawrence — and her outlet — have to settle for The Hill’s scraps. To be fair, Zimmerman was enterprising enough to find Lawrence’s story on the Interwebs, write a 114-word summation of it, and embed a link. All Lawrence did was travel to Las Vegas, spend 19 minutes personally interviewing the Majority Leader, and file a 1,600-word story about his remarks and the Democrats’ struggle to maintain their grip on the majority while they face a month’s worth of rabid constituents. Psha. Like Zimmerman couldn’t have done all that, too! [Anyone want to ask Ian Shapira what he thinks? Anyone? Bueller?]

So what gives? Did Drudge just flub this one? Are Drudge and Politics Daily not bff or something? Does The Hill have some sinister arrangement with the Drudgenator, guaranteeing regular placement on Planet Eyeballs in exchange for a steady stream of, er, short, easy bloggy thingies. OR is The Hill JUST THAT GOOD?

Ok, you got us on this one. It’s really just that we want to force Matt Drudge send the masses through US to get to either story. Damn, you Drudge! Damn you!