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Conservative Website ‘Newsbusters’ Was Hacked

Jul. 17, 2012 7:47pm Mytheos Holt

Today, while trying to pull up a story on the conservative media criticism site Newsbusters, we encountered a rather strange phenomenon – namely, that the site didn’t look quite…like itself. How so? Look at the following images:

Either someone at the Newsbusters staff A) spontaneously forgot everything they know about web design and B) really loves Oprah, or the site appears to have been hacked and plastered with images of the popular talk show host. We will keep our eyes peeled for more on this story. Unfortunately, this is not the first time something like this has happened.

UPDATE: Look at these wildly incongruous headlines that have appeared on the site.

UPDATE II: Newsbusters has confirmed the hack.

Conservative Website Newsbusters Hacked, Plastered With Photos of Oprah Winfrey

(Source: Twitter)

The site has since been taken offline.

UPDATE III: The site is back, this time clear of Oprah pictures and headlines.

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ProGunLiberal
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:37am
This just in: Sites get hacked from time to time.

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Valezka.Vidra
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:26pm
HAHAHA! This was freaking funny!!!!!!!!!

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mzk1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:57am
Weird hack. I assume they think we’d be upset about Black people or something? These guys need to get out more.

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- rickc34
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:00pm
  Sorry isn’t Oprah the Obama’s ex best friend? Didn’t Michelle kick Oprah to the curb because of her weight ? I would think she is a symbol of anti-Obama.
  
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poster
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:49am
I recently saw Oprah on TV. The woman has gained 300 pounds! Her thighs are ALMOST as big as Debbie Watermelon Schultz’s. Really — they’re THAT big! Like tree trunks. Like railroad ties. Like telephone poles.

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- Macman1138
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:53am
  Yes and with all that weight gain, her brain still weighs less than 3 pounds!
  
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EP46
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:45am
Wonder how Oprah feels about obama saying she didn’t build her business ? All those roads & bridges and stuff built by mostly union workers would not be there if tax payers did not pay for them, and business owners pay a good amount of those taxes….so without tax money there would be no roads…not that without roads there would be no businesses. We had business when we had dirt roads.

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- ferggie
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:40am
  Oprah didn’t build her business. The Republican Party and white people did! It was the republicans that pushed the equal right laws through and gave Oprah the opportunity to achieve her current status in life and had nothing to do with her.
  
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JohnLarson
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:54pm
Hackers tend to be liberals and leftists… but so is anyone who knows how to work a computer,

Average age of Fox News viewers and The Blaze visitors is like 65. You’re all freakin dinosaurs.

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- azcraigrr
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:09am
  And what are you without your computer? Answer – nothing and nobody. Cling tight!
  
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- Tarmangani
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:04am
  Actually, liberals and leftests tend to be anarchists. Conservatives know how to work with computers, servers, web sites and lans/wans. It just never occurs to them to violate other people’s property.
  
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- mzk1
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:54am
  Saying things impossible on their face make your point?
  
  But I’ll concede one thing. Commenters on sites like youTube appear to be children in College and High School. Definite lack of maturity, emotional and political.
  
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- SilentDove
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:13pm
  You have absolutely not one iota of data to back up that statement aside from the assumption your making.
  
  And the person who said that Conservatives know how to work with computers better than Liberals, you’re also completely insane.
  
  My God there’s nothing you people won’t inject politics into.
  
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Todd Decker
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:03pm
Conservative websites really have to go the extra mile on security because most hackers are Leftists, and we know that the Progressive-Liberal-Left cannot allow any speech that doesn’t agree with them to exist. Hopefully, The Blaze staff have a good IT team that monitors activities, and they follow good security protocols to make sure nothing like what happened with News Busters happens here.

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sndrman
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:59pm
poor starving people in the world…..no wonder moosechells won’t let her in the PEOPLES’ HOUSE,afarid what with a bad economy they might not be able to fix the floors oprah falls down….you know those shovel ready jobs really weren’t for the PEOPLES’ HOUSE…..also oprah couldn’t fit through the door come on we all this some “fatty fatty 2X4 couldn’t fit through the………..”well you all know the rest……could you imagine the scandle when they have to call the carpenter and plumber,and fork lift driver and so on and so on……

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sndrman
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:35pm
i just saw oprah and thought how many people’s food must she have eaten? esplains why so many poor starving people in the world…..no wonder moosechells won’t let her in the PEOPLES’ HOUSE,afarid what with a bad economy they might not be able to fix the floors oprah falls down….you know those shovel ready jobs really weren’t for the PEOPLES’ HOUSE…..also oprah couldn’t fit through the door come on we all this some “fatty fatty 2X4 couldn’t fit through the………..”well you all know the rest……could you imagine the scandle when they have to call the carpenter and plumber,and fork lift driver and so on and so on………….

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ThoreauHD
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:30pm
Apparently newsbusters and viewers of hardcore pawn are the only people left that do love Oprah. So I guess that’s good news for her.

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buubbytraps
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:28pm
WND EXCLUSIVE
Arpaio Obama probe finds ‘national security threat’
Hawaii found to be bogus birth-certificate factory
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/arpaio-obama-probe-finds-national-security-threat/

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- Searchingforthelight
  Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:20pm
  The Marshallese of other Islands in the Pacific that became ill due to the United States Military practices during the war around their islands are allowed to move to the United States and become citizens and accept free medical and welfare.
  
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jhaydeng
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:28pm
O.K. I know it’s not legal, but it is pretty clever! As long as no one’s identity was stolen I think it is a funny way to show how insecure websites are!

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Buckeye4ABO
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:26pm
LOL I just linked this story on facebook and wasn’t paying attention to Oprah, but rather how Motley hit the nail on the head.

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TJexcite
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:22pm
When it happened before not only names of Bloggers where changed and a picture of Tupac was on top.

Likely the same group using the same back door. Hope they get a hold of it and does not happen else where like here. They would love to take down the blaze/GBTV when Glenn is on.

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- mzk1
  Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:56am
  Thanks for showing the Israel flag. Don’t forget, we’re America’s biggest fans.
  
  MZK1, Haifa.
  
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Average_JoeMN
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:16pm
Liberals are the new terrorists.

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Git-R-Done
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:15pm
Hackers tend to be radical left wingers.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:22pm
  Of course they are, they sit home and collect a govt. check, and have all the time in the world on their hands.
  
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- antitheist
  Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:10pm
  Hackers are the closest thing the left wing has to the right wing’s militias and abortion bombing domestic christian terrorists.
  
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- Todd Decker
  Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:06pm
  “Hackers are the closest thing the left wing has to the right wing’s militias and abortion bombing
  domestic christian terrorists.”
  
  *lol* Thanks for the laugh, even if you are an ignorant troll. Naturally, SWATTing conservatives, getting them thrown in jail for what they say, bombing the Pentagon, destroying private property because Capitalism is evil, etc., is OK because the cause is just. ^_~
  
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Big Media Bias
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:12pm
I once walked into my bathroom when I saw Oprah on my toilet. I was like, “Oprah, you hacked my toilet! Get off my throne ya dumb liberal!” I immediately chased her out with a soap-on-the-rope cowboy style then reported her to the FBI very special crimes unit.

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- BenInNY
  Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:13pm
  They really should consider adding a voting system for comments here. Best image of the day.
  
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barber2
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:09pm
Conservatives have been targeted. Taxpayers have been targeted. More of that Lefty , anti-capitalism , OWS Occupation thingy ? These little wise guys hate rules, laws, cops, and law and order. Going to be a very messy campaign season. Things were better when they were in mom’s basement.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:07pm
Who doesn’t love Oprah and Obama, they both start with the letter O and have 5 letters. They are both beautiful black people and are so super smart.

I think my site just got hacked.

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HawkEyeTx
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:02pm
As you can see it’s just a matter of black on white or the other way around….at least it ain’t a gay issue….this time round.

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