Election Weirdness

Got this email over the weekend:

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: helpwin@yesbushcan.com
Subject: More False Documents


RatherGate proved that bloggers are the best fact checkers. That is why we are writing to a few bloggers asking for help.

Yes Bush Can has collected several documents that are clearly suspect. But we need your help to prove they are fake: http://www.yesbushcan.com/falsedocs.shtml

Let's spring to action before these documents needlessly tarnish the reputation of our Commander and Chief. You know the drill: analyze the handwriting, search for factual errors, and post your discoveries.

And keep us posted by sending email to FakeDocs@yesbushcan.com.

Thanks in advance for your help.

YesBushCan

(I fixed the formatting, which was even more odd than it appears).

So I go to the link and come up with this:

Calling All Conservative Bloggers!


You exposed RatherGate by proving the CBS documents were fake -- nice work! But now the liberals have found a bunch more documents so our work is not done. Let's get to work proving that these are fake, too!

Dick Cheney's DUI
George W. Bush's DUI
George W. Bush's Second DUI
Bush and Cheney have excellent judgement and would never get behind the wheel while drunk.

Memo to Ken Lay
Second Memo to Ken Lay
Ken Lay has been indicted on felony fraud charges -- there is NO WAY he was this close with President Bush.

Bush Daughters' Possession of Alcohol
It must be fake: This is clearly a liberal media snow job on these poor girls.

Osama Warning Document Part 1
Osama Warning Document Part 2
This so called "official document" suggests that Bush was asleep at wheel before 9-11. Get real.

Are there any other fake documents we are missing? Please send them to us so we can post them on this site for conservative bloggers to debunk.

Don't lose faith! Some conservatives don't think it is possible to debunk these documents. But real Bush supporters know that anything is possible with a president as great as ours.

(NOTE: I didn't bother to copy and paste all the links, if you're that curious, go to the site. Most of them seem to be Drudge Report copies.)

At first, I think this has got to be a joke. I mean, GWB has admitted he had a DUI on national television. Anyone who tries to "debunk" this is simply going to look veeerrry stupid. The "second" DUI to which the site refers is actually just the suspension of his license from the first criminal charge, and no one to my knowledge has argued otherwise. Both are on the Drudge archives.

Jenna's PAULA and no-contest plea are also on Drudge, and has been widely reported, as has Barbara's no-contest plea. They haven't publicly admitted it like GWB did, but no one expects them to at this point, they're not candidates.

Etc., etc., etc.

If this is a fake site designed to lure bloggers into looking foolish, they must have a very low opinion of the intelligence of their target audience, which I find rather incomprehensible. If real, I must pose the question: "What color is the sky in your world?"


(Side note: They target me as a "conservative blogger." Technorati labels me a "liberal". Hmmm.)