Newsmax is a conservative Republican-oriented global news portal, whose website, Newsmax.com, has more than 13 million readers a month. It is run by wingnut hack and conspiracy theorist Christopher Ruddy. Newsmax principally lives on the Internet on news site sidebars. Its website is dominated by shock news, moral outrage, conspiracies, and trashy advertising for dubious get rich quick schemes, quack medicines/workout programmes, and publications that feature ads for similar products.