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Oops: Obama forgot to register FightTheSmears.org

posted at 4:43 pm on June 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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With predictable results. Via star tipster RLW:

The DUers are hot on the culprit’s trail. For such a famously ‘Net-savvy operation, Team Barry’s sure having a rough week.

Update: Someone claiming to be the guy responsible showed up in the DU thread and said he supports Obama and will be turning it into an anti-McCain site. The domain’s vastly more valuable to Obama as a redirect to his smear debunking page; if he wants to help him, he should just turn it over.

Update: Ah, actually, the guy doesn’t say he’ll be replacing this site with the anti-McCain site, just that he’s planning on putting one up.

Update: The website owner removed the parody page and replaced it with porn so I’ve removed the link.

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this is quite funny…

Chudi on June 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM

Awesome.

IreneFingIrene on June 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM

I can legitimately say I laughed out loud.

Touche on the Osama bin Laden quote at the top.

warrenmr on June 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM

Wow. I want to give that guy a hug.

malan89 on June 12, 2008 at 4:50 PM

I wonder how much he wants now? Quick kill.

tarpon on June 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM

BEST ever lololol

spacekicker on June 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM

That Obama’s a real ace with the internets.

Cicero43 on June 12, 2008 at 4:56 PM

Hello, My name is Kevin. I go by the name Xclusive on the boards. I am not for Mccain and i’ve email Ms. Obama to let her know it was nothing personal. I made the joke to share with a few friends and never intended for it to go on the news. I’m a bit of a political junkie and i’m also a prankster by nature. I also love my country. I’ve slammed Bush anytime it was waranted and I am very sad that he’s ruined the country in many ways. So don’t think you know me by just a joke website. I’m going to have a Mccain website in a few days that will be also of a silly nature. I registered it right around the time I got this domain this morning. I’m a family man that loves my country and just wanted to set the record straight her since everybody is going overboard. If you have any questions please feel free to ask away.
-Kevin

He emailed Michelle Obama?

ninjapirate on June 12, 2008 at 4:57 PM

Someone claiming to be the creator of the site showed up on the DU(mmie) website assuring everyone that the site is just a joke, to make sure they knew how much he hated Bush for what he did to our country, and that a McCain version of the site would be up soon.

Whew!

I feel better already.

rihar on June 12, 2008 at 4:57 PM

We’ll call it a tie ninjapirate.

rihar on June 12, 2008 at 4:58 PM

The thought of hundreds of furious Obama drones getting Rickrolled brings me teh happy.

spmat on June 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM

The irony is that the McCain camp wish to emulate the Obama net-savvy operation.

This was hilarious to read.

McCain’s next.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM

LOL! And the Missiah still has 5 months to go!

William Teach on June 12, 2008 at 5:03 PM

Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama attended a radical madrassa

LIE: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran
Continue Reading
Allah Akbar

Obama’s Books Contain Racially Incendiary Remarks

A recent email forward allegedly quotes passages from Senator Obama’s books related to race and religion. The majority of these are alterations, deliberate manipulations, and in one case, an outright fabrication of Obama’s words.
Continue Reading
Do not speak badly about me or I shall behead you.

Barack Obama Won’t Say The Pledge of Allegiance/Won’t Put His Hand Over His Heart

LIE: Barack Obama won’t say the pledge

LIE: Barack Obama won’t put his hand over this heart during the pledge of allegiance
Continue Reading
View video of Barack explaining that he won’t pledge of allegience to anything but soultrain

ROFLMAO!

TheBigOldDog on June 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM

The thought of hundreds of furious Obama drones getting Rickrolled brings me teh happy.
spmat on June 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM

*snaps fingers*

wise_man on June 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM

Obama will say that he was the bartender in the Rick Rolled video.

Steve Z on June 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gG5GbL/commentary

Donna from Sebastopol, CA

I mistakenly wrote fightthesmears.org and it looks just like the other site but they go directly to some shmuck named Rick Astley - a ghastly musical reject stuck in the 80s.

Link

Someone should put out a cease and desist order to make him change the graphics. He’s using the logos and such without permission.
—
That Rick Astley guy should be sued - first for mirroring graphics that are likely under copyright and then again for such awful music and dancing!

He should change his name to Rick Ghastly.

ninjapirate on June 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM

I must admit this amused me. Very much.

Sue on June 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM

and will be turning it into an anti-McCain site

He didn’t say he that. Read closely.

Aristotle on June 12, 2008 at 5:12 PM

“The most notable characteristic of the vicious left is it’s almost total lack of a sense of humor.”

mojo on June 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM

what’s even funnier is that MSNBC was promoting the “org” site for awhile prior to realizing their mistake.

http://darkegop.blogspot.com

darkegop on June 12, 2008 at 5:14 PM

I can’t stop laughing. The experience and intellect of this man…Obama…is inspiring.

bopbottle on June 12, 2008 at 5:14 PM

Yeah, I want Obama running our country. I can just imagine how smoothly that will go. What a nimrod.

katieanne on June 12, 2008 at 5:15 PM

dot com
dot org
whats the difference. . . .

dot net is still open (apparently)

rockhauler on June 12, 2008 at 5:16 PM

Every day that passes makes Kerry look like a genius compared to this guy

Tazz 55 on June 12, 2008 at 5:19 PM

I just spit my water out laughing…

D2Boston on June 12, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Oh no the DU is now on the case! Run!

Chuck Schick on June 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM

The people commenting on Barry’s site are even funnier. One thinks its a copy right violation and the others fit the maker’s idea that if you take this seriously you shouldn’t be voting, maybe all the Obamanuts should take the point.

Rbastid on June 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM

I’m sorry, but that is hilarious!

Pam on June 12, 2008 at 5:32 PM

Touche on the Osama bin Laden quote at the top.
warrenmr on June 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM

Fighting is part of their hat??

bikermailman on June 12, 2008 at 5:33 PM

hahahaa

becki51758 on June 12, 2008 at 5:40 PM

I found this rebuttal less than convincing:

“A recent email forward allegedly quotes passages from Senator Obama’s books related to race and religion. The majority of these are alterations, deliberate manipulations, and in one case, an outright fabrication of Obama’s words.”

So some of the remarks were accurately described as racially incendiary?

OBQuiet on June 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM

“That’s not the web site I knew.”

Kafir on June 12, 2008 at 5:54 PM

Nice touch, you get RickRolled if you click on ‘continued reading’.

Over30 on June 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM

Just fyi, the guy behind the site is a 6′7″ 360 pounds porn webmaster who likes bananas. If you do a whois search and google the email you can find out more…

ninjapirate on June 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM

ROTFLMAO

peski on June 12, 2008 at 6:13 PM

“Crackas”.

Lol.

peski on June 12, 2008 at 6:14 PM

I just checked the .org site and it now has a YouTube vid of Wright/Obama connection…

I guess we can’t assume this guy is for Obama…

btw…I saw a report on one of the MS Media channels about this, and they had the .org site pulled up as a backdrop…you could see the Osama bin Laden quote at the top…it struck me as odd then…now I know what happened…

Phydeaux on June 12, 2008 at 6:37 PM

This is not the Rickroller Obama knew.

Topsecretk9 on June 12, 2008 at 7:16 PM

That’s pretty quick thinking on the guy’s part. He registered the domain immediately and came up with a good joke that goes along with the theme of the parody right away.

Typhonsentra on June 12, 2008 at 7:28 PM

The site now features porn links and has some nude thumbnails on it.

Stay classy, leftists.

Dave Shay on June 12, 2008 at 8:01 PM

Quick on his feet this one is.

jukin on June 12, 2008 at 8:06 PM

UPDATE*Oh and if you’re wondering why I put the porn links it’s because of the people that got all angry about the site and started searching on me. Whois and google. I don’t hide anything and the way they try and demonize me for exercising my 1st amendment rights. This site will be porn free in a day or so when I get the clean blog up and then you can judge me then. I am very protective of my rights and love my country. So come back then if you want to debate on anything i’m always up for the challenge. Thank you for all that have written me I’ll be answering my emails later gotta go have dinner with my family.

Hey family guy, how long does it take your wife to heat that banana up?

ninjapirate on June 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM

Hey AP, you may want to drop the link now or at least give a warning… the dude has thrown up all kinds of porn affiliate links as well as some rant about free speech and people being “Sheep”… which leads me to believe we’re dealing with a Ron Paul supporter if anything. They’re as mindless with their “sheep” crap as Obamites are with “Change” and “Hope”… usually a dead give away when you see the Sheep card pulled. Here’s the text currently at the top of the page (above the porn)

You’ve all Been RickRolled by XCLUSIVE this is just a small example of how the mainstream media is slacking. It’s a shame the lack of research that goes on these days. You would think every link being a RickRoll would be a clue that it wasn’t genuine. Start to think for yourselves and remember knowledge is power so stop being SHEEP.

RightWinged on June 12, 2008 at 8:24 PM

Message from the pornographer:

You’ve all Been RickRolled by XCLUSIVE this is just a small example of how the mainstream media is slacking. It’s a shame the lack of research that goes on these days. You would think every link being a RickRoll would be a clue that it wasn’t genuine. Start to think for yourselves and remember knowledge is power so stop being SHEEP.

Yeah i’m a dirty pornographer and proud of it. You will be seeing more of Xclusive in the future I can promise you that.

UPDATE*Oh and if you’re wondering why I put the porn links it’s because of the people that got all angry about the site and started searching on me. Whois and google. I don’t hide anything and the way they try and demonize me for exercising my 1st amendment rights. This site will be porn free in a day or so when I get the clean blog up and then you can judge me then. I am very protective of my rights and love my country. So come back then if you want to debate on anything i’m always up for the challenge. Thank you for all that have written me I’ll be answering my emails later gotta go have dinner with my family.

Gee, and I just figured he put the pron up as a way to make money. This was a really well done bait and switch.

Laura on June 12, 2008 at 8:36 PM

Sorry - I never remember to refresh the page before commenting…

Laura on June 12, 2008 at 8:37 PM

Absolut Perfection,
Bob

Bobnormal on June 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM

There’s some change someone can beleive in.

Hog Wild on June 12, 2008 at 9:23 PM

Wait a minute… between this, McCain’s buffoonery, and The Incredible McCain Girl… I think I feel reality slipping away…

gxpgxp on June 12, 2008 at 10:42 PM

How about “fightthetears,” is that taken?

S on June 12, 2008 at 11:41 PM

Or, how about “holdingbacktheyears”?

S on June 12, 2008 at 11:42 PM

How about a site where anyone can share their sitings of “smears,” you know, like when you’ve seen Grunions or Big Foot or The Mothman, or, for that very observant person, all of them.

S on June 12, 2008 at 11:46 PM

Obama will say that he was the bartender in the Rick Rolled video.

Steve Z on June 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM

Hahaha…and that bartender-actor guy fell asleep during the filming of the Rick video. WORD.

S on June 12, 2008 at 11:49 PM

My liberal friends… ah um, I mean aquaintences did NOT find that funny AT ALL.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Imagine that.

44Magnum on June 13, 2008 at 2:39 AM

S on June 12, 2008 at 11:42 PM

Tears for Smears?

“Pout, pout, let it all out,
This is the change we can do without,
Come on, Barry’s hoping for you, come on.”

James on June 13, 2008 at 7:20 AM

I’d heard that some leftist journalist at the BBC was going to make a documentary about Barack Obama called “Barackumentary”, and that Edward Norton was planning on something called “Barack-umentary”.

For those interested, I have already reserved both:
barackumentary.com and
barack-umentary.com

Just haven’t decided what to do with them. Wanted to wait and see if he got the nod.

ynot4tony2 on June 13, 2008 at 9:04 AM

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