It's not a conspiracy, it's a political phenomenon (FR Mentioned!)

The Sun-Herald ^ | 12/02/08 | DANIELLE ALLEN

[bkwells]

The Wall Street Journal recently reported an important effect of the 2008 presidential campaign: For the first time, traffic at left-leaning political Web sites overtook traffic at right-leaning competitors. The Drudge Report and Free Republic had the largest number of unique visitors in September 2007, but in September 2008, that honor went to the Huffington Post.

[NormsRevenge]

One would hope there aren’t that many idiots in the world to give the nod to the HuffPo.. Did I say Hope? :-}

[Safrguns]

lol... even the libs are leaving the MSM :)

[OneWingedShark]

“I had a squadmate get busted down in rank for Huffing...”

[al baby]

Most of our visitors were trools and not the good ones

[max americana]

> Free Republic had the largest number of unique visitors in September 2007

“unique” means..?

[bannie]

Different people...not the same joe’s over and over being counted as different people.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Huffington has millions of dollars, celebrity & politico bloggers, actual reporters and thousands of links. We have donations. It’s amazing that we can even compete with them at all.

[Freee-dame]

I don’t see how the Drudge Report counts as a conservative web site. Drudge just posts articles and links to articles. There are not reader responses at all.

[Carling]

Drudge broke the Lewinsky story that Newsweek was trying to bury after their own reporter uncovered it.

This makes Drudge “right-wing” in the eyes of liberals, because he actually reported news that negatively impacted Clinton instead of burying it.

[Doogle]

Drudge posts the stories the MSM won't....then it forces them to pick up the story and begin the spin which has become very obvious. It has always been about “exposure”,
the MSM covers it up, and Drudge runs it.

[Doug TX]

Not hard to manufacture traffic if you have the $$$$.

There is more to this story.

[Seven plus One]

I’ll bet FR, Reynolds&PJM, LGF, Townhall, etc, have probably sent more ‘unique visitors’ to pestholes like Kos and Huffpo than they have regulars. Headers like ‘Kos Hits Bottom, Digs’ sometimes pique the curiosity. Watching Huffpo disable comments on all Palin stories confirms to me what their stories are worth. These are establishment democrat sites, and the quality of the traffic no doubt reflects that. In my opinion they’re mainly troll hives.

[mrsmith]

The Huffington Post-where the vacuous ‘elite’ meet LOL!

[Lancey Howard]

Huff is just the latest fad for the goofballs. It was only a couple of years ago it was Kos. Before that, even DUh got a lot of traffic. Two years from now it’ll be some other new kid on the block. Meanwhile, FR keeps on trucking like it has for ten+ years.

[bpjam]

I’m in the disbelieving camp on the concept that HuffPo gets more traffic than Drudge.

And that would be generous calling Drudge a ‘right wing site’. It’s a freaking news site. No editorials. No forums. Just links to the MSM. How ‘right wing’ of Drudge...

[Lancey Howard]

Think about the founder of Huff - - a pretentious opportunist whose husband ran out on her... to be with another man! She figured out real quick that conservatives weren't buying her act so she did what any self-respecting opportunistic scam-artist would do - - she went for the easy pickings.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I think Digg has something to do with Huff Po’s hits.

[South40]

<>but in September 2008, that honor went to the Huffington Post.

he more vile the postings the more people report it causing others to go there to see it for themselves. The trash who run the Huffington Post knows this that's why they allow such garbage.