Get your factchecks right.


He did a lot more digging and found several entries where someone was trying to sell the domain in 2002 and 2003 and then a mention of it going slack and being picked up by some other company.

During the vice-presidential debate last night Dick Cheney referenced a site called 'factcheck.com' that would support some of his numbers and how Senator Edwards was incorrect in what he was reporting.

However, Mr. Cheney had his domain names wrong. What he really wanted to say was Factcheck.org. Factcheck.com is a site that redirects to George Soros' website which is quite the anti-Bush website and is in favor of Kerry.

While mistaking a .org for a .com isn't that big of a deal, interestingly enough, if you check the web archive you see that not too long ago it was a simple 'for sale' sign on the internet.

Brian however is convinced that it's a hippy lover in Seattle that owns the domain that just redirected it in favor of driving more people away from President Bush. He did a lot more digging and found several entries where someone was trying to sell the domain in 2002 and 2003 and then a mention of it going slack and being picked up by some other company.

Pretty interesting. While not earth shattering news, this is just one of those things that I am not really fond of when it comes to the web. Stuff can change in a heartbeat with little to no idea that ten minutes before it was something else.

Posted: Wed - October 6, 2004 at 07:14 AM           |

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