Remember Cheney's factcheck.org problem, when he mistakenly misdirected thousands of debate viewers -- only to have the left-leaning domain squatters redirect them to George Soros' site?
Well, the GOP has a new TLD problem. This time, several campaign staffers have accidentally sent emails to georgewbush.org instead of .com. Ooops. Only the real problem is that the .org site is run by the resolutely anti-Bush crowd behind Landover Baptist Church and Whitehouse.org.
And they decided to release them all to the public. Double oops. There's not a lot of juicy stuff there -- ok, well there's some. Jennifer Williams doesn't know that crack is supposed to be smoked. Donald Povia thinks Barbara Bush (the daughter) is the hotness. Ardean A. Anvik of Mason County Republicans worries that the county has improperly used its resources to help federal candidates: "God help us if the Democrats find out."
The Landover Baptists also find a couple of spreadsheets with names and addresses of Florida voters, and forward it to Greg Palast. The GOP in Florida evidently sent out letters to registered voters in Democratic (and largely black) counties, then collected the list of returned letters so they can challenge those voters. And then accidentally forwarded those lists into the hands of their enemies.
Triple oops! The internets is confusing!
And finally, if you're overseas, forget about looking at George Bush's website. Boing Boing reports (and aren't you glad you live in a time when I can write "Boing Boing reports" in a political post?) that georgewbush.com is now blocked from non-US servers. Maybe they're trying to prevent a DOS attack? Who knows. Well, you can always check out georgewbush.org!
Oh, and it looks like Bush has lost the critical Eminem demographic. (I've actually seen the video on iFilm, it's an pretty extraordinary piece of juice.)
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