Posted on 09/12/2002 5:27:55 PM PDT by Republican_Strategist
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A Web site that includes satirical material disparaging President Bush's handling of the Sept. 11 attacks has raised "a considerable amount of money" for Sen. Paul Wellstone's campaign, one of its founders said Wednesday.
The political Web site began experimenting with a pop-up Wellstone ad during the past 10 days, but Wellstone aides had it yanked Wednesday after Republicans drew attention to it. The ad solicited donations to Wellstone's campaign.
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/21/224700.shtml
" www.bushcoup.com
Registered to: David Lytel, Democrats.com, P.O. Box 20594 (New York, N.Y.)
Domain record created on: 11-01-2000 (six days BEFORE the election)
Phone contact: 123-456-7890
Purpose: Web site claiming Bush stole the election (formatted in an extremely similar manner to several other sites owned by Democrats.com).
Notes: obviously fraudulent phone contact info given with registration. Notice that Lytel registered the domain name on Nov. 1, six days before the election and long before anybody knew who was going to win. This suggests the Web site was created to as a preparation tool to attack Bush's legitimacy if and when he won the presidency a week later. Recall that Gore campaign strategists were prepared for the event that there would be a contested election before Election Day, and quickly mobilized in Florida within a day of the election."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/21/224700.shtml
" www.bushcoup.com
Registered to: David Lytel, Democrats.com, P.O. Box 20594 (New York, N.Y.)
Domain record created on: 11-01-2000 (six days BEFORE the election)
Phone contact: 123-456-7890
Purpose: Web site claiming Bush stole the election (formatted in an extremely similar manner to several other sites owned by Democrats.com).
Notes: obviously fraudulent phone contact info given with registration. Notice that Lytel registered the domain name on Nov. 1, six days before the election and long before anybody knew who was going to win. This suggests the Web site was created to as a preparation tool to attack Bush's legitimacy if and when he won the presidency a week later. Recall that Gore campaign strategists were prepared for the event that there would be a contested election before Election Day, and quickly mobilized in Florida within a day of the election."
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