AAR - the story of factcheck.com - used to be educational website

Freepers crashed it after Dick's mistake - so they sold it to Soros
Correction: see post 2 for real facts

The owners of the site were a bit miffed at it being crashed when Cheney mentioned it, so they set up a redirect to Soros' site. Soros had no knowledge of the redirect, but I'm sure he doesn't mind the traffic.

It was all on DU! And blogged!

Here's some backstory: Messages in a thread titled (Cheney gives web link during debate that leads to George Soros site) at Democratic Underground.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x886996 from philaguy, who signs his posts JB and says he's Name Administration Inc.'s lawyer. (AP spoke to lawyer John Berryhill of Philadelphia for the story above.):


Factcheck.com was registered quite some time ago by Name Administration Inc.
Name Administration often registers expired or abandoned domain names which comprise generic or descriptive terms
The staff at Name Administration have been through some difficult times lately, due to the impact of hurricane Ivan on Grand Cayman, and they were delighted to have been given this opportunity by Vice President Cheney....

Name Administration Inc. received no payment, inducement, or any communication from George Soros or any political organization for re-directing the domain name. It was purely a volunteer gesture....

Please don't send thank you emails. Traffic volume in the first hour alone was on the order of 48,000 unique visitors.

If you feel compelled to do anything, please make a donation to rebuild Bodden Town, Grand Cayman, which was hit very hard by Ivan:

http://www.turtlenestinn.com/hurricane_ivan-HI2.htm



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