VP debate amusement
Oct. 6th, 2004 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattlistenerCheney said Edward's allegations about his responsibility for Halliburton misbehavior had been disproven, and that people could go to factcheck.com to see for themselves.
Two things are amusing about Cheney's statement. 1) factcheck.com is a redirect to georgesoros.com, a powerful anti-Bush website. 2) The website Cheney *meant* to name, factcheck.org, said in a statement that Cheney had "wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton", and that "Edwards was mostly right." (Reuters article)
Edit1: factcheck.com is owned by an advertising site in the Caymans. They decided to redirect traffic to georgesoros.com when they figured out the reason it was getting inundated with hits after the debate. Soros didn't find out until later.
Edit2: factcheck.org has also been inundated with hits, and has gone down several times as a result.
Two things are amusing about Cheney's statement. 1) factcheck.com is a redirect to georgesoros.com, a powerful anti-Bush website. 2) The website Cheney *meant* to name, factcheck.org, said in a statement that Cheney had "wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton", and that "Edwards was mostly right." (Reuters article)
Edit1: factcheck.com is owned by an advertising site in the Caymans. They decided to redirect traffic to georgesoros.com when they figured out the reason it was getting inundated with hits after the debate. Soros didn't find out until later.
Edit2: factcheck.org has also been inundated with hits, and has gone down several times as a result.
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