HA HA HA- - FUNNY! Factcheck.com sends web surfers to GeorgeSoros.com!

[npincus]

When Cheney told millions to go to FactCheck.com to find the 'truth' about Halliburton, little did he know he was sending them to the lair of his arch-enemy, George Soros at GeorgeSoros.com!


In answering a question about his involvement with Halliburton, Cheney meant to direct people to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan site run by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center. He urged people watching the debate to go to the site for facts countering Edwards' statements about the corporation Cheney used to run.

But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.

The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits — about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.

"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.

They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money.

Web site operators typically pay fees to the companies that host their sites. The more hits a site receives, the more its operator pays.

Soros was not advised of the switch and did not know it had taken place until Wednesday, said a spokesman, Jeremy Ben-Ami.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=8&u=/ap/20041006/ap_on_el_pr/debate_web_sites



I tried it- typed in "factcheck.com" and went to "GeorgeSoros.com" where I was greeted by the headline: "Why We Must Not Re-Elect President Bush". HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... how f*cking funny is THAT!

All I can say is "Thanks, Mr. Evil!" I'll bet Soros' web site has never gotten so many hits!




on Edit: I didn't see there was a similar thread already- sorry!

[lightbulb]

1. This SOOO made my morning

Laughed for 5 minutes.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Even the correct web site does little to help him

Slow loading today. Top Aricle is:
"Getting it wrong about combat pay, Halliburton, and FactCheck.org"

"Cheney wrongly implied that FactCheck had defended his tenure as CEO of Halliburton Co., and the vice president even got our name wrong. He overstated matters when he said Edwards voted "for the war" and "to commit the troops, to send them to war." He exaggerated the number of times Kerry has voted to raise taxes, and puffed up the number of small business owners who would see a tax increase under Kerry's proposals."

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=272

They have some objections to Edwards too, but overall, it is not something Cheney really wants people reading today.

[MsTryska]

5. Ouch! So much for graVEEtas!

dick's getting hit from all angles today.

[John_H]

3. I wish Soros would replace the front page with The truth about halliburton

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Sweeeeeet!

Very clever!