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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 11:18 PM
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CNN article about Cheney's dot- com slip
"But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.

The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits -- about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.

"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.

They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/06/debate.website.ap/index.html

I think it is ironic this company is based in the Caymans probably to evade taxes yet redirected traffic to Soros. Life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:55 AM
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1. Very interesting! And George Soros liked the idea. :)
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