 | Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
| Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
Financier George Soros already has billions in the bank, but the move he just pulled today is priceless! You may remember our favorite moment in last night's debate -- when Cheney asserted he didn't have time to bore listeners with a defense of his actions as CEO of the corrupt Halliburton Corp., but that viewers could get all the info by clicking on a Web site: "Factcheck.com."
The episode was the ultimate metaphor for Cheney's twisted relationship with the truth. The Web site he was apparently trying to tout -- you never know with these guys -- is actually factcheck.org, a non-partisan political information site run right here in Philly, by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications. The Cheney misinfo led thousands of viewers to a site that didn't really exist.
Of course, the name -- like most viable domain names -- had been earlier snapped up by the Domain Name Sales Corp. located in the Caribbean. (Which is probably where Cheney should stash some of the millions he made at the oil-services giant).
Enter George Soros: the Hungarian-born hedge-fund genius who made billions on the American stock market, and has spent millions of that fortune on trying to get George W. Bush -- whose Iraq invasion Soros considers an outrage -- out of the White House. In recent weeks, Soros has kicked it up a notch with an anti-Bush book, a speaking tour (which stops in Philly today!), and now a highly charged, highly promoted Web site, georgesoros.com.
Well, Soros or his "people" must have been watching last night, because within minutes of Cheney's gaffe, the billionaire went out and rented the address from the good folks down in the islands. And so now, anyone who watched the debate and wants to learn more about Cheney and Halliburton, instead gets this headline:
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests and undermining American values."
Let's amend the Constitution: Soros vs. Schwarzenegger in 2012!
UPDATE: Except that the plot thickens with a report by ABC News that Soros DIDN'T buy or rent the site, that a Philadelphia lawyer (why is it always Philly?) for "Factcheck.com" decided on his own to direct the heavy flow of traffic during the debate to Soros' site. Here's a new post on this odd development.
Why don't we just auction off the Presidency to the higest bidder? Think of the money we'd save and make?
Posted by: Ted at October 6, 2004 10:51 AMlove the headline of this post. brilliant
Posted by: josh at October 6, 2004 11:27 AMYou left out the piece de resistance: When you finally clicked on factcheck.org, the headline was "Bush Mischaracterizes Kerry's Health Plan."
As my mother-in-law sometimes says of guys like Cheney, 'all they are is old.'
Posted by: Jim Pharo at October 6, 2004 01:27 PMToo funny. Really. I'm dying over here.
At 1:39 PM CST, I tried to hit factcheck.org...
Their server ain't pinging.
Pinging www.factcheck.org [128.91.58.205] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 128.91.58.205:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
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Did they get innudated and crash, or was someone not happy with what they had to say after advertising it on national TV?
Posted by: Crystal at October 6, 2004 02:17 PMAs of 3:22 p.m. factcheck.com was still redirecting to George Soros' site, so Soros must not be too unhappy about it!
Posted by: Ruth at October 6, 2004 02:59 PMExcuse me. Soros vs. Girly Man Schwartzenegger?? Please don't think up anymore nightmares, don't we have enough in the real world?
And please, we don't need to further discredit our constitutional democratic republic by inviting rich foriegners to occupy the presidency. We have enough idiots born in this country who don't appreciate the Constitution and what it means. We don't need to outsource the presidency to foriegners.
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