[ga] Re: [Politech] Dick Cheney's domain name misstep

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Declan, Richard, and all,

  I am of course sorry to see that Dick made such a silly mistake, and
even more sorry that George Soros took advantage of it the why he
did.  However I do have to say that George Soros is more wrong
for taking advantage of the Vice president's misstep.

  On has to remember and consider, that Dick was in the middle of
a debate when he made the misstep and to take such advantage of
such a small misstep is not good political form.

  None the less, I thought Dick lost the debate on other grounds
of more substance and interest...

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:10:43 -0400
> From: Richard M. Smith <rms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Interesting domain name story
>
> http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001181.html
>
> The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy . . .
>
> A friend sends this:
>
> CLEVELAND-Does Dick Cheney know that he told voters watching the vice
> presidential debate to go to GeorgeSoros.com? In response to a series of
> attacks from John Edwards on Cheney's tenure as CEO of Halliburton, the vice
> president said that Kerry and Edwards "know the charges are false. They know
> that if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent Web site
> sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific
> details with respect to Halliburton." One roblem with Cheney's rebuttal: He
> misspoke. He meant to say "factcheck.org.," rather than ".com." George Soros
> capitalized on Cheney's error, snatched up the URL, and now if you type
> "factcheck.com" into your browser, you get redirected to a page titled, "Why
> we must not re-elect President Bush: a personal message from George Soros."
>
> --Indeed, hilarious. Apologies for not knowing the original souce of this.
> Thanks to JB.
>
> Posted by Laura at  <http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001181.html> 10:04
> AM
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