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‘Clearly. I mean, why would they alter the tribute to Falwell, when instead they could put a plug for Hagel in the title tag where almost no one will notice?’

Trying to devine the intent of the insane is futile.

Applying common sense instead of paranoia isn't.

‘Trying to devine the intent of the insane is futile.
Applying common sense instead of paranoia isn’t.’

Uh...okay. No argument here as far as it goes.

Allow me to elaborate a bit more.

The following is the source code of the Hunter splash page, in its entirety.

<html>
<head>
<title>The Official Site of Duncan Hunter for US President in 2008</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<center>
<a href="index.asp"><img src="images/splash.new.gif" width="470" height="374" border="0"></a>
</center>
</body>
</html>

That's it. That's the whole page. I've used more sophisticated code in FR posts.

To conclude that someone intentionally tampered with that page from the outside, but could only manage to change the title, you'd have to conclude that someone who had enough skillz to crack into the server suddenly became a gibbering idiot when confronted with the simplest HTML code EVER.

That's like believing that someone got past the angry Doberman, the burglar alarm, the lasers, and the sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads, and then didn't steal the jewels because he couldn't figure out how to open an unlocked dresser drawer.