LIKE MILLI VANILLI’S GRAMMY AWARD, this “Restore Honesty” website by the now-discredited Joe Wilson is mostly of comedic value now. But wait, there’s more — scroll to the bottom and you’ll see that it’s “Paid for by John Kerry for President, Inc.” Quite an embarrassment.
My advice to the Kerry campaign — say that Wilson is lying about that, too. It’ll be believable!
UPDATE: Daniel Moore emails:
The only problem with Kerry saying that Wilson is lying about the paid for by John Kerry is that every link on the page goes directly to a JohnKerry.com page.
The Kerry campaign needs to get a little moral clarity on the whole honesty thing and not have a well-documented liar out talking about how to restore it.
And reader Jay Borgmann emails:
It is going to be hard for the Kerry Campaign to distance themselves from this website seeing as they have the exact same page hosted on their website:
Just blame the Evil Neocon Conspiracy. It’s worked before!
And reader Michael Pittard emails: “Click on the ‘What I Didn’t Find in Africa – By Joe Wilson (The New York Times)’ link at the bottom of RestoreHonesty.com. Ha Ha!” Indeed. Meanwhile several readers — perhaps missing the tongue-in-cheek nature of my advice to Kerry — note that a whois search shows that the RestoreHonesty.com domain is registered to:
Registrant:
John Kerry for President, Inc.
519 C St. NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20002
United StatesRegistered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: RESTOREHONESTY.COM
Created on: 22-Oct-03
Expires on: 22-Oct-04
Last Updated on: 22-Oct-03
The domain may be good for a while, but I suspect that the page may “expire” before October 22.
And it certainly suggests that even the very first sentence on RestoreHonesty.com is a lie: “I’m not a politician and I’m not a political partisan.”
Whatever you say, Joe.