C'mon America. Go to factcheck.com like Dick said

[seriousart]

I’d personally like to thank Cheney for directing America to “factcheck.com” to find out the truth.

Of course, I think Cheney meant “factcheck.org” but what’s the difference? Well, I looked it up just out of curiousity.

Turns out that the difference is that http://www.factcheck.org is a bipartisan fact-checker who has covered Halliburton’s indiscretions at: http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=261
And none too flattering coverage at that.

On the other hand, http://www.factcheck.com - the site Cheney told America to go to, bounces visitors over to georgesoros.com.
George Soros is, of course, the billionaire philanthropist demonized by the republicans for the money he’s contributed to try and keep Bush from geting re-elected.

The top of his web page reads: WHY WE MUST NOT RE-ELECT PRESIDENT BUSH.

So come on America, follow Dick’s advice and look up that factcheck.com and find out all you need to know about Cheney…

[Nelson Muntz] Ha- HA! [/Nelson Muntz]

[ShibbOleth]

I’m guessing some genius put that up overnight.

In fairness, it’s not a huge deal that Cheney got it wrong. People screw stuff like that up all the time.

[asterion]

Was anyone else hoping that the domain would be a porn site? That’d be funnier than the bouncing over to Soros’ website.

[seriousart]

@ShibbOleth

I’m guessing some genius put that up overnight.

In fairness, it’s not a huge deal that Cheney got it wrong. People screw stuff like that up all the time.

Of course not. It’s just kinda funny (to my Cheney disliking self) that the Soros camp would jump on his slip and exploit it as such. Why, it’s almost… republican in it’s craftiness.

Now, if Cheney had told America to go to whitehouse.com than that would have been REALLY funny.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

Of course, the real factcheck.org tears Cheney a new one over his cite.

Daniel

[Eve]

Damn, I thought he said “fatchick.com.” Boy, was I surprised!

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Eve

fatchick.com

Another Halliburton subsidiary?!

Daniel

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

[forgive me for crossposting this from another thread; it’s relevant here, too]

The plot sickens

@georgesoros.com

We do not own the FactCheck.com domain name and are not responsible for it redirecting to GeorgeSoros.com. We are as surprised as anyone by this turn of events. We believe that Vice President Cheney intended to direct viewers to FactCheck.org. [LINK: www.FactCheck.org]

So apparently this is just a prank by the cybersquatter who owns factcheck.com. That’s good: as I said, this was dirty politics and kind of disgusting (albeit funny), and I’m glad to see it’s not Soros who’s doing it.

Daniel

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

Okay, Looks like here’s the lowdown:

@AP

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.

Daniel

[Shalmanese]

I’m surprised it took the american public to take 100 seconds to type in a web address.

[Otto]

@Left Hand of Dorkness

So apparently this is just a prank by the cybersquatter who owns factcheck.com. That’s good: as I said, this was dirty politics and kind of disgusting (albeit funny), and I’m glad to see it’s not Soros who’s doing it.

WHy is this dirty politics or disgusting? I simply don’t get that at all.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Otto

WHy is this dirty politics or disgusting? I simply don’t get that at all.

If George Soros had done it, he’d be weaselifically cashing in on factcheck.org’s sterling reputation of nonpartisan information in order to get out his extremely partisan message.

I got no problem with partisan messages: I just want them to be honest about it.

Since Soros wasn’t responsible for this, since it was something done by a sleazebag website owner who’s been cashing in on factcheck’s reputation all along, I’m not too worried about it.

Daniel

[Shodan]

Oh sure, the one freaking time Dick actually responds to the chorus of debate-watching Dopers yelling “Cite?”, and all you can do is nitpick his coding.

Regards,
Shodan

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@Shodan

Oh sure, the one freaking time Dick actually responds to the chorus of debate-watching Dopers yelling “Cite?”, and all you can do is nitpick his coding.

Well, since it mirrors the administration’s level of competence in finding WMD and running the war in Iraq…

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Shodan

Oh sure, the one freaking time Dick actually responds to the chorus of debate-watching Dopers yelling “Cite?”, and all you can do is nitpick his coding.

I’ll to that.
Daniel

[Inigo_Montoya]

[Fritz the Cat] What a wonderful, wiggly world! [/Fritz the Cat]

[Polycarp]

@Shodan

Oh sure, the one freaking time Dick actually responds to the chorus of debate-watching Dopers yelling “Cite?”, and all you can do is nitpick his coding.

Regards,
Shodan

Gotta give you that one, friend!

Of course, if for his third point he’d mentioned Opal…

[Monocracy]

It’s Al Gore’s bitter revenge.

[Shodan]

@Polycarp

Gotta give you that one, friend!

Of course, if for his third point he’d mentioned Opal…

In a related story, a Congressional report today stated that Saddam Hussein had no measurable stockpiles of 1920s Style Death Rays.

“Despite the presence of forty thousand box tops and a Captain Midnight decoder ring buried in his backyard, we can find no indication of Saddam possessing the power to vaporize Tel Aviv from deep in space,” reported inspectors. "We believe those programs, although active in the 1980s, have been largely discontinued.

We did find significant levels of Ovaltine cartons, which leads us to suspect that Saddam meant to re-activate his death-ray program as soon as John Edwards can buy a beer in North Carolina without being carded."

President Bush, in a response to the report, stated “This administration remains committed to the war on terror and interplanetary attack. We have concrete evidence that Saddam has links to bug-eyed monsters from outer space. The world is a better place without him.”

His Democratic opponent, John Kerry, said that the US did not have enough troops on the planet Zongo, and that therefore he would begin withdrawing them in the first six months of his administration.

“I voted in favor of the invasion, and knowing what I know now, would fully support it, which was the wrong invasion in the wrong place at the wrong time. Therefore we need to fully fund Head Start, cut the deficit, reduce taxes on ketchup, and elect a Vice-President who looks more like Charley Mahoney than Cheney does.”

Undecided voters, interviewed in a trailer park in Chihuahua’s Bladder, New Mexico, said that the news would make them neither more nor less likely to vote for Bush. "Nobody wants to be invaded from outer space, that’s for sure. My cousin Earlina was abducted and anally probed, and she sort of liked it, but she is the black sheep of the family.

Not that I have ever had sex with a sheep, mind you. That was a lie."

Regards,
Shodan

[Aeschines]

Dick (disdainfully): “Today was the first time I ever visited factcheck.com.”