Leftist sets up fake KKK site to smear Fred? Update: Fake KKK site now redirects … to Silky’s campaign site (bumped)
posted at 5:12 pm on August 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
No confession yet but it looks that way. Nice work by Captain Ed. Follow the links he provides to the FEC receipts for “Henry Reynolds” and compare the addresses for yourself.
Ed seems to think it’s a genuine false flag operation (“underhanded”) meant to make people think Fred has some actual fans in the Klan. I think it’s more in line with WhiteHouse.org or when the Soros machine famously took advantage of Cheney misstating the name of FactCheck.org during his vice-presidential debate with Silky in 2004. There’s no deception, really, unless you’re a halfwit MSNBC producer; they’re simply trying to capitalize on the domain name confusion to goof on any supporters of their hate object who might stumble onto their site instead. The fact that the domain was obviously deliberately chosen to resemble the domain of the official campaign site is actually the biggest giveaway, and probably what raised Ed’s suspicion in the first place. If Reynolds or whoever had really wanted to plant a false flag, he’d have been better off calling it “KlansmenForFred.com” and feeding the link to Kos.
Exit question: You think he’ll call Ed back?
Update: I completely missed Ed’s update. Sweet enough to earn this post the rare, coveted bump.
Update: Classy guy — the redirect no longer goes to the Edwards campaign but to Goatse.
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Not a chance. This guy had no idea someone like Capt Ed would find and write about this. AND track down his info to boot!
I think this guy is going to get very little “lawyering” done for the next few days. I am glad you linked to this. It isnt the first, it wont be the last, but standing up to the “progressives” smear tactics is crucial!
labwrs on August 9, 2007 at 12:47 PM
what if it isnt a ruse? and its real?
zane on August 9, 2007 at 12:48 PM
No, but he now has one credential for becoming a Diarist at TNR.
Dusty on August 9, 2007 at 12:49 PM
It says a lot more about how Democrats (or at least this Democrat) view average people than anything else.
If they didn’t think American voters were morons, they would have tried to craft something more convincing.
Asher on August 9, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Fake but accurate eh!
oilbertan on August 9, 2007 at 12:53 PM
And the guy who set it up is a lawyer. I wonder if he has gotten more from MoveOn then he has given and a $250 donation to Jean Pierre Kerry certainly doesn’t rank as a ringing endorsement.
LakeRuins on August 9, 2007 at 12:53 PM
I strongly agree with Asher. And how long before one of the lefty blogs grab and run with this?
The Dems truely think the average American is an idiot. This is further proof (as if we needed it!)
labwrs on August 9, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Like Beauchamp, he probably amazed himself at how clever he was to think up this idea, even though he didn’t have a clue what he was getting into.
Nosferightu on August 9, 2007 at 12:56 PM
These guys are famous for this domain name crap.
Look what they did to Joe Lieberman last year, they had no less than 4 fake Lieberman domains and sites set up and they did the same thing with “Path to 911″.
This no different from somebody opening a storefront a few blocks from a campaign headquarters and only changing one letter in the name on the sigh. It’s fraud and slander at minimum.
I still baffles me that the “netroots” and left get the support they do in this country.
186k on August 9, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Jonas, you sure you should be posting that?
Bad Candy on August 9, 2007 at 12:57 PM
I contacted John and Ken at KFI in L.A. they love exposing jerks like this, I also contacted the man himself,Let the Games begin! I hope Michelle gives them a call as well since she knows them personally,(Michelle are you out there?)
Bob
Bobnormal on August 9, 2007 at 12:57 PM
… or maybe csdeven set it up.
thirteen28 on August 9, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Leftist? How do you know it’s not cdseven?
tneloms on August 9, 2007 at 12:59 PM
This should prove entertaining in the coming days.
DaveS on August 9, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Why must the left resort to puerile stunts like this when everyone knows they’ll be romping to victory in ’08?
JammieWearingFool on August 9, 2007 at 12:59 PM
when i doubt play the race/racist card …..
this is rule 1 in the leftist handbook.
Mojack420 on August 9, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Jonas, what’s with that crap? Anyone who needs to find it can find it. Don’t give people an excuse to target Hotair, MM, or AP.
DaveS on August 9, 2007 at 1:00 PM
It appears to be content from an actual website, just mirrored under a different URL.
The real story here?
Ceramic Klan statues with glowing eyes cost an extra $10.
http://www.ozarkcraft.net/statue.htm
How is that not a huge rip-off?
tad on August 9, 2007 at 1:03 PM
Fred smeared himself after hiring a pro-Islamic to his campain. I have completely lost respect for Thompson.
Timber Wolf on August 9, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Don’t post the guy’s contact information, please. Ed has a call out to him. He’ll report back.
Allahpundit on August 9, 2007 at 1:04 PM
[Bad Candy on August 9, 2007 at 12:57 PM]
I’m in the iffy department on that, too.
Dusty on August 9, 2007 at 1:05 PM
This is funny stuff, but c’mon, fred? has questionable behavior with campaign funds and lobbying. There is no need for this. It’s laziness. I took a few minutes and searched the FEC site and it looks like freddie boy was accepting donations right up until he decided not to run (21 days before the filing deadline) in 2002. The funny part is that fred? had always said he would not run for re-election. But when it came down to it, he waffled on that for almost a year all the while collecting contributions for his senate campaign. Is it possible that fred?, AS HE PROMISED, never intended on running, but kept collecting contributions so he could then funnel that cash to his son after he converted to a PAC?
I’m not an expert at reading this, but it does show all the contributions he received up until April 2002. It then shows where he created a PAC and began paying his son $4000 a month. Of course, there was little or nothing done to make money for the PAC and the lions share of it was funneled to his kid.
fred? says this is how things are done in Washington. hahaha Ok freddie boy, sounds like your fake image designed to present you as a good old boy was really a front for someone who is pretty savvy at working the Washington insider game.
And two more words…..Abramoff = lobbyist. fred? was an arm twisting lobbyist that always went for the bucks instead of conservative ideologies.
Yeah, who cares about this obvious fake website? freds? real persona is what will send him packing. Well, look on the bright side. He has a PAC and $3.4 million that he can funnel to his family after he pulls out of contention. (that is if he ever announces)
csdeven on August 9, 2007 at 1:06 PM
this began a while back. some industrious members of the nutroots found an old episode of a drama show in which fred! played a white supremacist character named “knox pooley”. it’s sort of been their little nickname for him since.
e.g.:
http://clowncentralstation.blogspot.com/2007/05/wise-words-from-knox-pooley.html
http://knoxpooley.blogspot.com/
one nutrooter laid out the “idea” thusly:
“It makes no difference whether HE believes it. The objective is to convince the VOTERS that he believes it. That’s how swiftboating works.”
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Ejfpz8dWRX8J:www.repugnantparty.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/8/2933299.html+knox+pooley&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Sorry folks, I just answered Zane’s question as best I could. If you read the article at Captain’s Quarters you’ll get the same site name, and the information that I posted came right off Project Whosis. In my personal opinion, if this
dumbso-and-solawyer is too stupid to disguise his identity, that’s not my problem, it’s his.Jonas Parker on August 9, 2007 at 1:07 PM
[Timber Wolf on August 9, 2007 at 1:04 PM]
Could you be a little more specific?
Dusty on August 9, 2007 at 1:08 PM
and, as far as i can tell, the knox pooley” meme was prodded by a pointless oped in the latimes.
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Is it just me or has the media forgotten that Rudy!, Mitt!, Hunter! and others are in the race and need smearing too.
Limerick on August 9, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Gittin’ dirty fast!
Who can’t love this behind the scenes stuff, that 85% of Americans are oblivious too. Can AP considered irresponsible, for not having an addiction disclaminer at the top of the web page.
captivated_dem on August 9, 2007 at 1:18 PM
it bears repeating:
progressives only ever lie about anything. they lie without shame and with militant conviction.
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM
So pumped, I can’t spell or smith a sentence.
captivated_dem on August 9, 2007 at 1:20 PM
This rises above Nixonian dirty tricks.
Woodward, give Carl a call and get on this story. Stay on the story even if your lives are threatened. Hammer it home until election day. Turn over every leaf. Interview every know associate of Reynolds. Go after the big guy too, Soros. Keep it on the front page of WaPo.
Oh, sorry. I was dreaming.
fogw on August 9, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Ok, so looked a little into the domain. If you look at the source code, he’s just pulling the material from
KKK.com. It’s the right domain, I just felt it needed a strike through.Anyway, his meta tags for the page are:
Fred Thompson, Fred Tompson, Fred Thomson, racial purity, mud people, white christian america
The Law Offices of Henry F. Reynolds also has a website, but it’s hosted with Mecca Hosting – not GoDaddy as this one is. Not surprising, though, because Mecca only hosts business sites.
amerpundit on August 9, 2007 at 1:23 PM
csdeven on August 9, 2007 at 1:06 PM
You’re just pissed that you didn’t think of putting up a website linking Fred with the KKK first.
doriangrey on August 9, 2007 at 1:26 PM
I doubt that any criminal charges would be brought over something like this, but an attorney can get disbarred pretty quick over any incident involving deception. I know attorneys are dicks, but this is the sort of thing a Bar association will take VERY seriously if somebody makes a complaint.
Of course you’d need to have all your facts in order before you make any kid of complaint. (A Bar Association isn’t like the police; you can’t just tell them your suspicion and expect them to do their own investigation.) But if somebody can get hard proof, this really is worth following up on.
logis on August 9, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Let’s see tar Fred with a false association to the Klan but the dems go out of their way to pander to racist groups like La Raza.
So let me get this straight
white racist = evil
Brown racist = diversity and honor
GOP = Racist
DNC= Enlighten and diversity.
I feel so much better now.
Mojack420 on August 9, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Give the guy a break. He probably didn’t think of this because he was too busy thinking about something besides Fred Thompson. Like…
Um…
Hm. OK, I guess he doesn’t have an excuse after all.
logis on August 9, 2007 at 1:32 PM
To everyone who said that the 2006 election was the dirtiest in history ….. Hah you ain’t seen nothing yet. By Nov. 2008 the Boy Chump story will be the good old days.
TunaTalon on August 9, 2007 at 1:44 PM
Shhhhhh. CS is sleeping after last night….and early this morning….and this afternoon…….
captivated_dem on August 9, 2007 at 1:45 PM
[Nosferightu on August 9, 2007 at 12:56 PM]
Missed it earlier, N. Great follow up point.
Dusty on August 9, 2007 at 1:45 PM
They know the primary source of their fears. It’s not intellectual; it’s instinctive.
Entelechy on August 9, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Lazy, good fer nothin’ tricksters! Crack smokin’ swindlers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y0puAaOia0
RightWinged on August 9, 2007 at 1:46 PM
exit question…
the answer is somewhere in the range of of course not to he’ll call back affecting a southern accent trying to prop up the kkk narrative in some way not even a drunk blonde would buy.
you really never know with derangement syndrome sufferers.
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 1:48 PM
Boy Chump?
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Pat, Allah just deleted that #. Please no one else post the doucherocket’s number
Bad Candy on August 9, 2007 at 2:08 PM
I specifically asked people not to post his contact info. Why do you want to contact him anyway given that Captain Ed is already on the case and we don’t even know if the guy’s guilty yet?
DON’T POST HIS CONTACT INFORMATION AGAIN.
Allahpundit on August 9, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Ed didn’t post his E-mail address but he DID post the link so you could find it yourself,now why do you think that is? I believe it’s done that way so WE could do the homework and make our own determination on the subject,Why should Ed do all the lifting here?
Bob
Bobnormal on August 9, 2007 at 2:29 PM
I KNEW IT! Fred is really the posterboy for white supremacy! (/sarc)
Hey, did imwithfred2008 at least link to Senator Byrd’s Senate page? How about to the history of Jim Crowe? The promise of Democrats to suppress black people via the Ku Klux Klan?
Oh, those were missing? I wonder why!
BKennedy on August 9, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Beauchamp may normally be pronounced “Beecham” but in this one singular case it works better as “Boy Chump”.
TunaTalon on August 9, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Everyone always feel like they should be in on the action. This is why machanics charge you more to watch.
- The Cat
MirCat on August 9, 2007 at 3:03 PM
oh, duh. thanks.
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 3:11 PM
That’s the BOR and MM conditioning coming into play:)
AP doesn’t roll that way.
Spirit of 1776 on August 9, 2007 at 3:34 PM
He posted the link because that’s what blogs do: they link their sources. He explicitly omitted the contact info and stated that he was attempting to contact the guy for answers
Don’t be an immature moron. Good grief.
DaveS on August 9, 2007 at 3:37 PM
the page links to john edwards now? lol
trailortrash on August 9, 2007 at 4:14 PM
not for me. i don’t know why, but everyone else over there reports that it’s redirecting.
also, the perp has changed his reg info.
ed nailed it. the hoax is confirmed.
and the answer to ap’s exit question is clearly a definitive “no”.
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 4:27 PM
I’d report him to the California State Bar. http://www.calsb.org
Blake on August 9, 2007 at 5:26 PM
HAHAHAHA!!! What a dumbass. Ed really pwn3d ‘em!
Bad Candy on August 9, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Did Democratic Senator Byrd help them? The Dems have their own KKK member on staff for these projects.
Hypocrites….
Hening on August 9, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Please tell me some one screen capped it?!
RiteWingFascist on August 9, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Bwahahahaha!
I’ve got so much dirt of that lying fake fred?, why would I want to do something as lame as this? Jeeze, I keep busy enough digging up the truth about fred? the liar, I don’t need to spend my time on lies like this.
csdeven on August 9, 2007 at 5:46 PM
I didn’t say that to suck up to AP and I think BOR is a blowhard,but I do believe if we care about the truth,then we should act whenever possible. If you disagree e-mail me and we can discuss this ourselves otherwise,chill out!
Bob
Bobnormal on August 9, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Seek help.
Professor Blather on August 9, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Oh you mean the link that shows his E-mail address? gimme a break you sound like a lefty to me,Dave S
Bob
Bobnormal on August 9, 2007 at 5:50 PM
screenshots
http://www.uploadhouse.com/viewfile.php?id=340933
http://www.uploadhouse.com/viewfile.php?id=340934
RiteWingFascist on August 9, 2007 at 5:51 PM
So the guy who did this was traced back to a law firm. Some law firm that can’t dot it’s i’s nor cross it’s t’s..not one that I’d hire for sure.
He needs to be fired if he didn’t know enough to get his name and private info off the internet slip :P . Idiot.
Highrise on August 9, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Man, I am never gonna try a stupid stunt like this–God only knows how much personal info you could dredge up on me!
You can run but you can’t hide, as many morons have discovered too late.
Bob's Kid on August 9, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Uh, woah. That’s not were it’s going to now.
Yikes.
- The Cat
P.S. Don’t go to the site that Ed links to unless you wanna know what the inside of a guy’s butt looks like.
MirCat on August 9, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Dance 8itch, dance!
csdeven on August 9, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Goatse.
Fortunately, I saw that on the status bar before the DNS resolved.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on August 9, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Spirit of 1776 on August 9, 2007 at 6:06 PM
ha. Forgot to close tag, oh well, you get the idea.
Spirit of 1776 on August 9, 2007 at 6:06 PM
goatse!
http://goatse.unfg.org/asciigoatse.htm
EO3
jummy on August 9, 2007 at 6:08 PM
Lucky for me and mine, even though it has my name (which is more common than I realized) it has the name of the old registar with THEIR address and phone number instead of mine. Muahaha
- The Cat
MirCat on August 9, 2007 at 6:09 PM
the link now goes to a goatse – Capt. Ed ought to take it down. Ugh.
wordwarp on August 9, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Right on thanks,as soon as I heard I E-mailed the guy and called my local representatives(john and Ken do more for California than all of our representatives combined)I don’t have a Blowtorch but they sure do KFI 640,
Bob
Bobnormal on August 9, 2007 at 6:11 PM
I wonder if him doing that (blindly referring people to a goatse) is something the California Bar Association would be interested in?
wordwarp on August 9, 2007 at 6:11 PM
The website now links to a Wikipedia entry on Fredric Jameson, the Marxist political theorist.
amerpundit on August 9, 2007 at 6:19 PM
You mean that’s not John Edwards?
Oh.
Pablo on August 9, 2007 at 6:20 PM
One CQ commenter points out that the source code for the site still has the Meta tags, “Fred Thompson, Fred Tompson, Fred Thomson, racial purity, mud people, white christian america”. I’ve capped it.
amerpundit on August 9, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Goatse! lol
Haven’t seen that in ages. I had almost, by the grace of God, forgotten what it looked like…
Lehosh on August 9, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Is it just me? But I think it would be poetic justice for
HRthis retarded tool, to have his identity stolen and sold to day labors at your local home depot parking lot. With in a few days you know it would be sold nation wide .Mojack420 on August 9, 2007 at 6:37 PM
Marxist Humor.
Next.
RushBaby on August 9, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Goatse’d!
Bad Candy on August 9, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Henry Reynold’s photo?
Connie on August 9, 2007 at 8:13 PM
Ah, moonbats.
They can never seem to justify the fact that Robert KKK Byrd is one of them, yet they pull caca like this
ToddonCapeCod on August 9, 2007 at 9:34 PM
kiakjones on August 9, 2007 at 9:37 PM
I know this is off topic, sorry, but Beauchamp cannot be pronounced that way… it’s a french word… or derivitive, so it’s {Bo-com} “beautiful field” there is no ee sound in it. the kid may pronounce his name that way… but that doesn’t mean it’s proper… but I suppose we should pronounce peoples names the way they want.
back to topic… I’m sure hotair doesn’t want the inof published by them because the get enough flak without being sued by Silky’s “Smear Drones” in the legal field…
Kaptain Amerika on August 9, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Damn, Connie… do you know that’s him? cuz if not… that’s way wrong to post someone’s photo like that… that’s like shooting someone and then asking them if they robbed you.
Kaptain Amerika on August 9, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Kind of makes you wonder… why is this guy so worried about Fred getting into the race and winning the nomination that he would do something this stupid and easily debunked? Maybe he’s concerned about the results of the general election tilting against his “lady”?
Texas Nick 77 on August 10, 2007 at 3:10 AM
HenryReynoldsLaw.com is currently available.
Hmm.
I wonder if he would find it funny if someone took that site and redirected it somewhere naughty?
nosliwelyk on August 10, 2007 at 6:03 AM
I am shocked that an attorney would act in a dishonest manner. The next thing you will tell me is that lawyers lie.
saved on August 10, 2007 at 7:14 AM
Damn you all!!!
A content warning to us farts that have no idea what a “goatsie” is. I couldn’t make out what all teh letters/ ASCII stuff was so I searched further… I nearly pushed the monitor off the desk trying to get that cleared off!!
Have some compassion for the weak hearted!!!
DrM2B on August 10, 2007 at 1:03 PM