Obama's Website Covert Actions?

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 05:58 PM

You are just not going to believe this one...If anyone thought things were dirty before, you ain't seen nothin' yet...

I've supplied the links and ran through them myself...I encourage all to (before it gets whitewashed)...

Who's Behind Anti-Palin Smear Site?

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Suddenly appearing among the Google search results for “sarah palin gay,” a web site titled: Sarah Palin Supports Gay Rights.

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Sarah Palin (GOV-Alaska-Republican), supports gay rights, says Anchorage Daily News.

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Quote "Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed a bill Thursday that sought to block the state from giving public employee benefits such as health insurance to same-sex couples."

Quote ""It is the Governor’s intention to work with the legislature and to give the people of Alaska an opportunity to express their wishes and intentions whether these benefits should continue," the statement from Palin’s administration said."

Coghill said he’s interested in a new plan that would allow state employees to designate one person — maybe a same-sex partner, but also possibly a family member or roommate — who would be eligible for state-paid benefits. But the employee would have to pay to add that person to his or her benefits."

Sarah Palin’s veto gave gays the same rights as married couples in Alaska.

A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for gay marriage.

Interesting. There’s nothing else on the page. This sure looks like the work of the dastardly right-wing anti-gay attack machine, doesn’t it?

But look who’s really behind this.

In the Linux console, if you enter the following commands, you can learn the secrets of a political dirty trick. First, look up the host of ‘sarahpalingayrights.com’ to get the site’s IP address.

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host sarahpalingayrights.com
sarahpalingayrights.com has address 74.208.74.232

Then use the same command to look up the domain name pointer of that IP address.

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host 74.208.74.232
232.74.208.74.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer obamadefense.com

Well, well. “Obamadefense.com,” eh?

And what happens if you enter obamadefense.com on your browser’s address line?

Why, you’re redirected to none other than FightTheSmears.com, the official Barack Obama site that’s supposed to be defending him against smears.

Looks like they may have a second purpose: to generate a few smears of their own.

Edit : Please note that this is not proof that the Obama campaign is behind this deceptive web site; that's why the title ends with a question mark. But it's definitely not what it seems.

UPDATE at 8/30/08 2:16:54 pm:

There is apparently no connection between these attack sites and the official Obama campaign; to get to the bottom of it I emailed the owner of an associated site, and here's his reply:

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I run ObamaTaxCut.com, or actually alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut

I think the person who registered the domain and forwarded traffic to it also owns/ran ObamaDefense.com -- this used to be a separate site with short defenses of various factually inaccurate charges against Obama during the primary, but the owner changed it to redirect to Obama's site after the campaign made one themselves.

So even if it's NOT the campaign itself, it looks like people are creating their own websites, then purposely redirecting it to Obama's official website...One that "Fights the Smears"...

Mikeyy · #2 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

You are just not going to believe this one...If anyone thought things were dirty before, you ain't seen nothin' yet...

I've supplied the links and ran through them myself...I encourage all to (before it gets whitewashed)...

Who's Behind Anti-Palin Smear Site?

So even if it's NOT the campaign itself, it looks like people are creating their own websites, then purposely redirecting it to Obama's official website...One that "Fights the Smears"...

There hasn't been evidence of Obama playing dirty.In fact he had to straighten a staffer out yesterday for a response about Sarah he didn't approve. Lets not drag Obama in to the gutter with some on McCains team.

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

There hasn't been evidence of Obama playing dirty.In fact he had to straighten a staffer out yesterday for a response about Sarah he didn't approve. Lets not drag Obama in to the gutter with some on McCains team.

Ummm...The source CLEARLY states it's not the campaign...

I'm pointing this deceptiveness out because it's being done from the same side that continually tells us they receive 50 emails a day telling them their candidate is a Muslim...

Except of course, when you receive one of those letters, you KNOW it's an anti-Obama person...

Here, the Left is PURPOSELY hiding the fact that they are Obama supporters, and instead trying to make people believe that the site is actually from the RIGHT...

Mikeyy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Ummm...The source CLEARLY states it's not the campaign...

I'm pointing this deceptiveness out because it's being done from the same side that continually tells us they receive 50 emails a day telling them their candidate is a Muslim...

Except of course, when you receive one of those letters, you KNOW it's an anti-Obama person...

Here, the Left is PURPOSELY hiding the fact that they are Obama supporters, and instead trying to make people believe that the site is actually from the RIGHT...

Another example of people wanting to win too much.

bhkad · #5 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

There hasn't been evidence of Obama playing dirty.In fact he had to straighten a staffer out yesterday for a response about Sarah he didn't approve. Lets not drag Obama in to the gutter with some on McCains team.

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August 29, 2008 12:30 AM

Not the Obama We Know
An effective, dishonest speech.

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Everyone knew that Barack Obama can give a good speech, and he did just that tonight. The Obama we heard from was an attractive figure. Too bad he doesn’t exist.

[...]

It would not cross your mind that this denouncer of hardball, self-interested politics might be having his campaign intimidate reporters out of looking into his record.

[...]

I am not sure who the real Barack Obama is. I do not believe that I saw him Thursday night.

Ramesh Ponnuru on Barack Obama & Acceptance Speech on National Review Online

Mikeyy · #6 (**permalink**) 08-30-2008, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

Ramesh Ponnuru on Barack Obama & Acceptance Speech on National Review Online

You are reading some bad papers. Maybe you should start posting The Nation. Hey maybe thats the problem. You guys are reading a bunch of scary stuff from these crazy papers and its messing you all up. Thats the problem. Look Put down the national Review and back away....We'll send over a team to remove it. Its infected dozens.

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