Buffalo Beast Website Goes Down Following Walker, Koch Prank Call

gateley

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Wed Feb-23-11 06:25 PM
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Buffalo Beast Website Goes Down Following Walker, Koch Prank Call

The online news site Buffalo Beast has gone offline after publishing a prank phone call between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a Buffalo Beast editor who posed as David Koch.

Buffalo Beast Publisher Paul Fallon told The Huffington Post that the audio is "absolutely legit" (listen to it here).

The Buffalo Beast website seems to be suffering from traffic overload, causing many to see this message: "Error establishing a database connection." Some pages also say, "The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

It's not the first time the Web has made the news in the Wisconsin protests. A pro-union website was blocked at the Capitol Building in Madison./snip

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/buffalo-beast-website-down_n_827243.html

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ElsewheresDaughter

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Wed Feb-23-11 07:19 PM
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1. overwheleming traffic prob crashed it

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gateley

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Wed Feb-23-11 08:22 PM
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2. I much prefer blaming the Republicans. :-) nt

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siligut

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Wed Feb-23-11 08:26 PM
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3. That is what I had read

Apparently directly from Ian Murphy.

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Wed Feb-23-11 08:33 PM
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4. You can also hear it here on Salon

http://www.salon.com/news/the_labor_movement/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/koch_walker_call

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gateley

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Wed Feb-23-11 11:05 PM
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5. Thanks! nt

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Oilwellian

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Wed Feb-23-11 11:55 PM
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7. Hey gately

I saw Anonymous website down today. Do you know what happened?

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gateley

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Wed Feb-23-11 11:58 PM
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8. No! What site was that?

Actually I never visit the site (the one I"m thinking of I can't even remember the name), I never seem to make it out of DU! I'll go Google and see if there's anything there about it. :hi:

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sad sally

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Wed Feb-23-11 11:47 PM
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6. Brian Williams even talked about it on the 6 p.m. news.

And not in a flattering way...

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Thu Feb-24-11 12:01 AM
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9. Yeah I tried

Love the extra hits from here on eh?

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