Calling Mark Halperin---calling Mark Halperin: The conservatives are imploding right in front of our monitors.

Instead, this off-the-wall theory was picked up by one of the most popular sites on the Internet, the Drudge Report -- the very same Drudge Report that ABC's Mark Halperin recently compared to Walter Cronkite, writing that "if Drudge has a siren up, people know it's something they have to look at."

In fact, the "Bush in a burqa" story (that was the headline on the top left of the Drudge Report an hour ago) is so ludicrous that even Drudge didn't promo it for very long. However, it was up long enough for Raw Story to catch a screen grab, which we are showing here...read on