Andrew Sullivan: The Dish Was ‘Hacked’

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For a brief moment on Monday, Andrew Sullivan’s defunct blog the Dish published a mysterious morsel after months of silence.

The post was a simple GIF showing tumbleweeds blow by in the desert, presumably a comment on the blog, which still remains online. It was the first thing to appear on the site after the famous blogger shut it down in back in February.

Around noon ET, the blog’s old Twitter account @dishfeed, which used to automatically share any new piece published on the site, tweeted the untitled post.

Was it a gag by Sullivan?

Not at all, according to him: In an email to TPM on Monday, Sullivan said that the site had been hijacked.

“We were hacked,” Sullivan wrote. “Taken down now. all passwords changed.”

Former executive editor Chris Bodenner made reference to the now-deleted post on Twitter, sending out an image of a tumbleweed on fire.

Here’s a screenshot of the post:

Ed. Note: The writer of this post, Brendan James, previously worked for Sullivan at The Dish as an intern.

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  1. Guess Sullivan hasn’t gotten any press attention lately. Now that his dish has been hacked, perhaps he can go lie down by it.

  2. Give the hackers props for old school hacking style

  3. I used to read The Dish and was sorry to see it go black. What can this brush fire possibly mean? So strange.

  4. I’m still jonesing like crazy for the Dish.

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