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Psst_Im_Not_Here Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:13 PM
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Yahoo story on factcheck.COM/factcheck.ORG
Edited on Wed Oct-06-04 05:30 PM by Psst_Im_Not_Here
We need to keep this article rated up!

Yahoo story on Factcheck.COM

It mentions both sites and if anybody goes to either site, it's good for Team Kerry. The .COM site is redirected to George Soros' website and the one Cheney meant to say factcheck.org gives the facts on the debate and most of them aren't pretty for Dickie-boy.

On edit: Ooops....com .org... personally I'm a .net
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HighJinx Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:20 PM
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1. Check your facts
:kick:
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:31 PM
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4. LOL.... You guys are very sharp
:+
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Psst_Im_Not_Here Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:31 PM
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5. Did you mean
the .com thing?

Sorry I was excited ::blush::
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:22 PM
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2. Done. 3.74 with 722 vote(s).
Edited on Wed Oct-06-04 05:23 PM by crispini
Edit:
This article is FUNNY.

"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.

(snip)

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


"We are as surprised as anyone by this turn of events but certainly encourage voters to visit both of these valuable sites," Michael Vachon, a senior aide to Soros, said in a statement.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:27 PM
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3. OMG, I didn't know this part of the story:
Regarding the company that owns the site:

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.

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

(snip)

Wow.

BTW Psst, you made the same mistake Cheney made. Look at your post again - you might wanna fix it.
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Psst_Im_Not_Here Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:37 PM
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6. Thanks
SO embarassed!

Love your screen name by the way!

And believe me I'm nothing like Cheney!
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