Captain Ed at the excellent Captain's Quarters has the lowdown:
It doesn't take long for provocateurs to crawl out of the woodwork to attack candidates, especially in stealth attacks. With Fred Thompson, they've apparently started before he officially enters the race -- and in one case, race is the operative word. Apparently hoping to confuse web surfers looking for Fred's website at www.imwithfred.com, a new site has appeared at www.imwithfred2008.com -- only this site welcomes people to the Ku Klux Klan, "Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!" It includes links to a variety of disgusting racist sites.
Ed tracked down the domain name and traced it back to a Henry Reynolds of Santa Monica, Calif. It turns out that Mr. Reynolds is a lawyer and donated money to MoveOn, DNC Services and John Kerry according to OpenSecrets.org.
But wait, it gets better. Mr. Reynolds got a bit spooked and changed the domain name info and now the site -- imwithfred2008.com -- links to John Edwards' official campaign website.
This is just another example of how low some members of the political left in this country will go -- outing gay and philandering Republicans is one thing (albeit disgusting in its own right), associating a leading politician with the KKK and racism is quite another. These people are so desperate to regain power that they've now resorted to this.
For the record, the idiot, Henry Reynolds, has nothing to do with John Edwards or any other politician with the exception of directly donating funds to John Kerry. But the fact that he gave to MoveOn and redirected the site to John Edwards is telling.
No word from the Fred Thompson camp, but they owe Cap'n Ed a big old thank you. Just as an aside, this doesn't speak too highly of Thompson's internet team that they didn't procure that domain name.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. it just goes to show u the freedoms we still have, even to deceive the public like reynolds did and his kkk kick at thompson. just vote democratic and freedoms will be taken away from us. the democrats have evolved into extemists like alqueda, many sunnis, and irans religious elite ruling party.the media is responsible for their popularity as it is owned by immoral men who think they can deceive the pulic by telling half-truths. if you want family values, justice, and fair laws, few democrats will avail such. think about it.
butch hyde at 9:53AM on Aug 10th 2007
2. Finishing my earlier comment: She seems to be a stong-willed enough woman that she would'nt allow her husband to run the country for her, and she seems to be open enough to promote some if not all of Barrack's ideas. Barrack seems to be intelligent enough to surround them both with competent advisor's, something we haven't seen in 6 1/2 years. This new group of people will lead this nation into a new direction of hope and prosperity and security, the likes of which we haven't seen in quite some time. I believe that somehow they will come up with a viable solution to universal healthcare for ALL
Americans. If they can come up with a way that it is free for the citizens of the one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, they will certainly get my vote.
REGINALD at 1:41PM on Aug 10th 2007
3. The first part of my comment was: Hillary will win the Democratic nomination and will select Barrack has her running mate. This is a winning combination! History in the making, but more importantly
REGINALD at 1:45PM on Aug 10th 2007
4. This post points out a fundamental flaw with internet communications as they currently exist. Its too easy to throw up a phony site. We need some sort of trademarks or logos which cannot be forged to electronically identify our unique web pages and emails. I tried to do this 14 years ago but gave up after failing to navigate the office of trademarks complex requirements. But don't let my one bad experience deter you from trying to help solve this problem.
Steve Bonomo at 6:52PM on Aug 10th 2007
5. "But the fact that he gave to MoveOn and redirected the site to John Edwards is telling."
REALLY? Why is that? WHAT is is telling of?
Are y9ou so STUPID as to foist that fallacious reasoning on people?
"I have a pair of purple pants. Purple pants are sold in Arermina. Therefore, my pants came from Armenia."
So what if this idiot donated to MoveON and to John Kerry? Big deal! Is that supposed to mean that EVERYONE who donated to MOveOn or to John Kerry is an unscupulous miscreant?
You really pander to the lowest common denominator here, apparently. I can;t blame you fot that; it worked for Rush Limbaugh and it got Reagan, Bush XLI and Bush XLIII elected.
But please be careful! I mean, what if turns out that some notorious serail killer donated to the Salvation Army? Would THAT be "telling," too?
What sophistry and drivel!
Zorro at 8:55AM on Aug 11th 2007
6. "the democrats have evolved into extemists like alqueda, many sunnis, and irans religious elite ruling party.the media is responsible for their popularity as it is owned by immoral men who think they can deceive the pulic by telling half-truths.:
HA HA HA HA HA!
Please do some fact-checking and become educated. First off, it is the largest donor to W who owns 80% of the AM radio stations in the US, which spew nothing but right-wing nonsense day in, day out. "The media" don't report anything of real substance. If they did, Bush and Cheney would have been impeached long ago.
Dems as extremists and like al-Qaeda??? Really? The Democrats are so dysfunctional and disorganized that they couldn't organize lunch, let alone a world-wide terror network! WHAT are you smoking?
Last time I checked, it was the REUPB NEO-CONS who were torturing innocent people, getting 3700 of our brave young soldiers killed for NOTHING in a war predicated on LIES, making a BUNDLE on that war, lying to Congress and the American people, eavesdropping illegally, suspending the Constitutional right to habeas corpus, altering scientific reports to delete references to humans contributing to global warming, and holding hands with the Saudi Prince. Political illiteracy is rampant in this country and this goofy post comparing Democrats to a worldwide terrorist network is one fine example of it.
"WE MUST LIMIT FREEDOM!" Who said that? It was GEORGE W. BUSH, on the campaign stump in 2000! This was after he petitioned the FEC to fine a guy $50,000 per day for putting a spoof "Bush For President" web site on the Internet. A reporter asked if Bush wasn't threatening free speech and press, and Bush pounded the podium and gave that response! Of course, this was played exactly ONCE on the TV news, and never since. So much for your claim that the media pushes the Dem agenda! Well, at least you are correct about media being "owned by immoral men who think they can deceive the public by telling half-truths."
Zorro at 9:11AM on Aug 11th 2007
7. As far as the up coming runners for President, We don't have a lot of good selections. If I was voting today it would be for Fred Thompson if he decides to run. Think he would be another Ronald Regan in a lot of respect.
Helen Salyer at 9:16AM on Aug 11th 2007
8. The DEMOCRATS are this evil... get used to it...they will stop at nothing for power...
joem at 8:28PM on Aug 13th 2007