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Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 3-9-10 | James

Posted on 03/09/2010 4:36:55 PM PST by iloveamerica1980

The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.....But Brent Baker, the vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, wondered why the conservative Drudge was cited as an example instead of a liberal site like the Huffington Post. "The Huffington Post is also a huge site visited by staff," Baker said. "It actually has far more links to outside sources, outside videos that could be seen as potentially dangerous for viruses and worms." Story at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/09/senate-warns-staffers-stay-clear-drudge-report/ Rare interview with Matt Drudge at: http://www.dittos-rush.com/2010/03/senate-staffers-warned-to-stay-clear-of.html

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: politics

1 posted on 03/09/2010 4:36:55 PM PST by iloveamerica1980
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To: iloveamerica1980

This is libel and slander, designed to hurt Drudge’s business. Drudge should challenge this. Virus? Which one?


2 posted on 03/09/2010 4:39:54 PM PST by Mamzelle (On FR, watch out for the Club of mid-2004)
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To: iloveamerica1980
"are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate,"

LOL Drudge is primarily a page of links to other sites with various news stories.
3 posted on 03/09/2010 4:41:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Mamzelle

Norton gives Drudge a clean bill of health with zero threats.


4 posted on 03/09/2010 4:45:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: iloveamerica1980

You know, if my boss told me not to go to a certain website ... I’d be there in a split second (on my own time).

I guess they want mindless drones working for them.


5 posted on 03/09/2010 4:46:37 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Mamzelle
This is libel and slander, designed to hurt Drudge’s business. Drudge should challenge this. Virus? Which one?

The most deadly of all to the statists: truth.

6 posted on 03/09/2010 4:48:21 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: iloveamerica1980

Now if they told me to steer clear of the capitol showers.....


7 posted on 03/09/2010 4:54:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: iloveamerica1980

Dolts, every one.

Helpful Hint: Use a firewall. Even my 4th grader knows what one is, as he and his sister have been protected by it for over four years.

Knucklehead politicians! Like their parents, their DVD’s are still flashing 12:00.


8 posted on 03/09/2010 5:07:53 PM PST by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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To: iloveamerica1980

They are sooooo transparent. Let them go to DU & see how many viruses & diseases they come away with! LOL LOL


9 posted on 03/09/2010 5:09:17 PM PST by blondee123 (Illinois ELECT Adam Kinzinger - http://www.electadam.com/)
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To: blondee123

I don’t know about Drudge Report’s issue, but I do know that whitepages.com users were hit by a virus infection over the weekend coming from one of our third party network ad providers. It was taken down early Monday morning. It is absolutely possible that Drudge got hit by the same virus infection and didn’t even know it.


10 posted on 03/09/2010 5:35:42 PM PST by meixne
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To: iloveamerica1980
Never had any problem at Matt's site, and I visit many times a day.
11 posted on 03/09/2010 5:49:16 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Mamzelle

Drudge is a pu**y and wont say or do a thing. His time is up as a new “breaker” and lives on past success and ad revenue. He’ll keep it right down the middle to please the sponsors.


12 posted on 03/09/2010 6:52:42 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (3V3Ry71N' 084M4 D03z 83N3f17Z MU5l1mz. c01NC1d3nc3?)
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To: Nuc1

I never saw it there either and I read Drudge at a similar frequency: I also never got the virus while on Whitepages.com looking for the offending source (a rogue ad). It was the luck of the draw as well as where you were that determined the infection.


13 posted on 03/09/2010 7:11:14 PM PST by meixne
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