My virus software listed the threat as the site was infected with adobe flash malware.
It doesn’t sound like something they haven’t checked out. If it was liberals playing games they would be picking websites far more conservative than NRO.
Well, safety first.
I just mention that possibility for general awareness. The Chinese have often done this to sites of their political opponents, such as Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong. It is something that an unsophisticated attacker can do.
The companies that provide security software no doubt have been adapting to this kind of attack, to make it harder to submit false alarms.
Sophisticated attackers can use real malware to attack or track visitors to the sites they target.
Anyhow, it was just a chatty offhand comment, nothing definitive or authoritative.