Conservative Website ‘Newsbusters’ Was Hacked
- Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:47pm by
Mytheos Holt
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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.
(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 1:37amThis just in: Sites get hacked from time to time.
Report Post »Valezka.Vidra
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:26pmHAHAHA! This was freaking funny!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:57amWeird hack. I assume they think we’d be upset about Black people or something? These guys need to get out more.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:00pmSorry 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.
Report Post »poster
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:49amI 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.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:53amYes and with all that weight gain, her brain still weighs less than 3 pounds!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:45amWonder 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.
Report Post »ferggie
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:40amOprah 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.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:54pmHackers 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.
Report Post »azcraigrr
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:09amAnd what are you without your computer? Answer – nothing and nobody. Cling tight!
Report Post »Tarmangani
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:04amActually, 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.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:54amSaying 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.
Report Post »SilentDove
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:13pmYou 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.
Report Post »Todd Decker
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:03pmConservative 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.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:59pmpoor 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……
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:35pmi 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………….
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:30pmApparently newsbusters and viewers of hardcore pawn are the only people left that do love Oprah. So I guess that’s good news for her.
Report Post »buubbytraps
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:28pmWND EXCLUSIVE
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/arpaio-obama-probe-finds-national-security-threat/
Searchingforthelight
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:20pmThe 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.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:28pmO.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!
Report Post »Buckeye4ABO
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:26pmLOL I just linked this story on facebook and wasn’t paying attention to Oprah, but rather how Motley hit the nail on the head.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:22pmWhen 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.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:56amThanks for showing the Israel flag. Don’t forget, we‘re America’s biggest fans.
MZK1, Haifa.
Report Post »Average_JoeMN
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:16pmLiberals are the new terrorists.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:15pmHackers tend to be radical left wingers.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:22pmOf course they are, they sit home and collect a govt. check, and have all the time in the world on their hands.
Report Post »antitheist
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:10pmHackers are the closest thing the left wing has to the right wing’s militias and abortion bombing domestic christian terrorists.
Report Post »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. ^_~
Report Post »Big Media Bias
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:12pmI 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.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:13pmThey really should consider adding a voting system for comments here. Best image of the day.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:09pmConservatives 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.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:07pmWho 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.
Report Post »HawkEyeTx
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:02pmAs 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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