MSNBC Mistakenly Promotes Anti-Obama Gag Website

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By Jason Aslinger (Bio | Archive)
June 12, 2008 - 17:57 ET

Updated with video (19:55 EDT)

MSNBC has been criticized as being in the tank for Barack Obama. And so today, when the Obama campaign launched its own rumor-squelching website, MSNBC was all-too-eager to promote the site through several news bits.

But there was just one problem. For a time this afternoon, MSNBC mistakenly promoted a prank site (UPDATE: site has since been pulled and url removed from this post), as opposed to the actual Obama site http://fightthesmears.com.

While the Obama site denies and denounces the viral internet rumors, the gag site satirically perpetuates and builds upon them! Fair warning: the gag site deserves a bad taste alert.

Upon discovering the mistake, an on-air MSNBC correspondent issued a correction mid-afternoon. Chris Matthews is going to have a different kind of tingle over this one.


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"Truth: She said they were

June 12, 2008 - 18:29 ET by Apache

"Truth: She said they were Crackas"

LMAO

PMS-NBC just cant get

June 12, 2008 - 18:30 ET by charlietexas

PMS-NBC just cant get anything right.........hahahahahaahaha

HEE-LARIOUS!

June 12, 2008 - 18:50 ET by SickofLibs

Oh yeah, I can hardly wait for Tweety's reaction!

On the other hand, Obamo sure does have some dumbass webmasters; what idiot wouldn't have registered ALL the possible permutations of the name (.org, .us, etc) at about $5 each? They deserved it.

But speaking of dumbass webmasters, the guy in Buffalo who registered the prank domain is ALSO an idiot - for about 10 bucks extra, he could have registered it privately and NOT had his name, home address complete with apt. number, phone # and email publicly available to anyone except by court order. Anyone, say like an Obamo lawyer who would have a case if for nothing else than outright stealing the graphics verbatim from a copyrighted website.

Still, I loved it. 

Thanks for sharing the

June 12, 2008 - 18:45 ET by BuffNBone

Thanks for sharing the links.  Didn't realize he was Barack H. Obama II.

 

 "Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

Is it just me or...

June 13, 2008 - 08:01 ET by theduck6

While I couldn't stomach going very deep into the "real?" site, I did get a feeling of  de'javu. There was a lot of wriggle room, semantics and doublespeak in many of the assertions and the wording of the statements offered as lies. I had a Bubba flashback.

Hey, she didn't say it "from" the pulpit. She didn't say "whitey" it was more like "Go&&amned whitey" as that word seems to be OK at Trinity. I still reserve judgement until the video actually emerges but I've heard more than enough so far from these two to see them as racebaiting opportunists who are just another couple hungry for power. WOW another Bubba flashback!!!