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Originally Posted by pan6467
3 things come to mind:
1) Cheney did that knowing the GOP would link it to Soros' site so that it LOOKS like the Dems and Soros are guilty.
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2) a self made Billionaire is truly very stupid and did this without thinking he'd ever get bad press.
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3) the Dems did it thinking they could blame Soros and get away with it.
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Or not.
FactCheck.com is owned by a company that sells encyclopedia's. They noticed a massive increase in visitors, which negatively affected advertisers on their site. As the owners had to do something to remove the negative impact to their advertisers, and as they do not support Bush, they redirected the domain to Soros' site. Soros' has a notice about their non-association with factcheck.com and a link to factcheck.org.
I heard this on NPR, here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4074032
So Cheney got seriously burned. What is suprising is that Cheney would even mention factcheck at all, as the previous item on their homepage, from the 4th of October, is a description of how Bush misrepresents Kerry's health plan. I think he was going for the brush-off tactic: attempting to point to a 3rd party as evidence that his association with Halliburton is a non-issue, expecting that people would essentially take his word for it if they decided not to dig deep into FactCheck or accept the FactCheck article about completely different Halliburton issues. That FactCheck now states that Edwards' Halliburton accusations are essentially correct is poetic justice.