Vis-a-vis my post that Drudge got bored and drove the flu pandemic story. He was the story's Patient Zero and he played it for all he was worth.
He's now grown bored with it, as I knew he would. Last night he flipped his bright red headlines to the US Supreme Court vacancy. His flu pandemic? It's been relegated to a couple of small headlines further down the page, beside a story on Michelle Obama's shoes.
In his wake he's left a WHO on high alert, Dr. Phil telling people not to worry about eating pork, a Vice President telling his family not to ride the subway, a President answering questions at news conferences, Tamiflu rich, schools closed, parents freaked out, Mexican tourism in the toilet, the Egyptian government ordering a swine cull, the EU considering a ban on flights from Mexico, and paranoid people all over the world wearing surgical masks.
This is essentially the biggest hoax in years, perpetrated by a reclusive man with a keyboard and time on his hands.
And you know what? I have to admire him for it.
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