Somebody pulled the same "he's pulling out" gag on Thompson in Iowa.
That one wasn't true either.
Drudge is a good place to start for picking up news items to track down elsewhere on the internet, but it's a bad idea to have it be the place where you stop looking further.
Daily Kos is a collection of blogs/diaries written by various people, and isn't any too reliable as anything but a starting point either.