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1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

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October 11, 2004

Who is factcheck.com, really?

Well, I just read on www.factcheck.com that they were simply redirecting traffic to an anti-Bush site after Vice President Cheney gave out their web address by mistake during the debate. factcheck.com is simply a directory site in real life.

Rather than simply shutting down their servers to protect them, they redirected viewers to an anti-Bush political site. Get this, they say . . .
When Mr. Cheney mis-spoke, viewers heeded his advice and visited factcheck.com in staggeringly large numbers. Name Administration re-directed this traffic for several reasons - to protect our servers from the potential for damage caused by Mr. Cheney's error, and as a service to our advertisers. Our advertisers intend to pay for potential customers to their websites instead of observers of political current events.

They go on to say . . .
Name Administration re-directed those visitors to a website relevant to U.S. politics. Name Administration chose the website of investor, philanthropist, and political activist Mr. George Soros, because his website is well-funded, does not seek to raise funds from visitors, and had greater capacity to absorb the load of visitors, reaching over 100 visitors per second during peak times after the debate.

And of course, the fact that billionaire Soros is vehemently campaigning AGAINST the Bush ticket had nothing to do with their choice of URLs for redirection . . . riiiiight . . .looks like they could have sent half of them to Rush Limbaugh's highly funded, free site in the spirit of fairness, or . . . oh, I don't know . . . thrown up a "Site Not Found" error code instead.

Soros had a post on his site as well to help clear up the mess . . .
We do not own the FactCheck.com domain name and are not responsible for it redirecting to GeorgeSoros.com. We are as surprised as anyone by this turn of events.

And naturally, factcheck.com denies any collusion with Soros as well. They conclude their article with . . .
Contrary to some imaginative rumors spun by some, our action was undertaken on a voluntary and emergency basis, with no prior communication or consultation with the Soros organization.

Of course now, the front page of factcheck.com has sponsored links to both factcheck.org and www.georgesoros.com. I thought they just said their regular advertisers didn't like to have viewers directed to political sites.

Politics . . . what a stinking mess.
posted by David Bruce Murray @ 2:55:00 AM


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