According to a news report, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms said that the Drudge Report is “responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.” Powerline noted the impressive frequency of the government’s visiting Drudge:

18,750 times a day, Senators and their staffers visit the Drudge Report — 187.5 times a day for each Senator; 30,543 times a day Congressmen and their staffers check in on Drudge — 70 times a day for each Congressional office; and, most comical of all, 1,353 times a day President Obama’s White House staffers log on to the Report.

As to the odd claims about the Drudge Report spreading computer viruses, the company issued a statement saying “that the Web site had clocked almost 30 million page views on Monday without a single reader complaining via email that the site had transmitted a virus.” Children seem to be running the government at this moment, and not the brightest of children either. (Perhaps it’s actually things like this that have the administration and congressional leadership ticked off at Drudge.)

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