{"id":1296,"date":"2004-08-26T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T16:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/anything-goes-for-bushcheney-04\/"},"modified":"2004-08-26T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T16:58:55","slug":"anything-goes-for-bushcheney-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/anything-goes-for-bushcheney-04\/","title":{"rendered":"anything goes for bush\/cheney ’04"},"content":{"rendered":"

this<\/a> wouldn’t be worth mentioning in any form, if it weren’t for the golden quote at the end.<\/p>\n

what we have here is a story about a utah republican that’s spent $30k or so buying up domain names that seem capital-d democratic and pointing them to the bush\/cheney ’04 re-election site. there’s potential for blowback on all this, of course, but mostly it’s a non-story. people play games with domains all the time.<\/p>\n

then i saw this:<\/p>\n

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Utah Man Buys Up Domain Names in Bush Push<\/a> [ap via abc news, august 26, 2004]<\/div>\n

Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Bush\/Cheney ’04, said the campaign’s Internet staffers were unaware of the connection.<\/p>\n

“But anything that directs traffic to our site is fine with us,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which seems to be about as close to the truth as i’ve ever seen from a political spokesperson.<\/p>\n

two thoughts: 1) i’m sure there’s something<\/em> that would cross even kevin’s line when it comes to drivig traffic to the site, and 2) isn’t that just begging for a ddos attack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

this wouldn’t be worth mentioning in any form, if it weren’t for the golden quote at the end. what we have here is a story about a utah republican that’s spent $30k or so buying up domain names that seem capital-d democratic and pointing them to the bush\/cheney ’04 re-election site. there’s potential for blowback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}