Hacked? Or Delinquent?
Update: a new message on Sen. Joe Lieberman's site:
Senator Lieberman's Campaign Website This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon.
Tim Tagaris, Ned Lamont's online strategist, is skeptical that Lieberman's blog was hacked.
I post because Marion Steinfels is running around proclaiming that someone hacked her site. This isn’t the first time they haven’t paid their bills, it happened when the stupid bear-cub ad ran and Sean Smith bragged all the traffic (from people mocking the ad) crashed their site. Same notice.
We're not sure. The site has been down since midmorning. If the Lieberman campaign had wanted to pay its bill (provided that was the problem) it would have. Or Smith would have forked over the $500 personally to keep it up.
To be judicious, it's possible that the Lieberman campaign has committed a ninth inning error.
Or there's some double-jujitsu dance a-foot, wherein the Lieberman staff deliberately fakes a hack and lies, deliberately and openly and baldly, to journalists about it.
We're getting in contact with the company that hosts Lieberman's blog, and we'll let you know what we find out.
Apply Occam's Razor.
Bill not paid until proved otherwise.
Then website hack until proved otherwise.
Then descend into the pits of psychobabble doubletalk conspiracy theories (or ju-jitsu as you charitably put it). At this point of course appoint a commission to write a report. Then mutter darkly about black helicopters.
We'll that's interesting - Lamont knows nothing about the Blogs - but Lamont is sure this hack is not by any of their supporter blogs? Hmmmmm....How do they know? Did they ask the blogs they know nothing about?
Anyways, not like the blogs are going to admit and I wouldn't put a hack past the over-zealous Lamont supporters.
PeachyQueen: ---
Yeah, casting aspersions without evidence. This is the kind of campaign the Lieberman camp has always run. Always looking for excuses too, like Joe does.
Maybe their webmaster is a secret Lamont supporter? Huh? Another theory?
If his website is down/hacked...why do these pictures still work?
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And there's lots of content still available for viewing here.
So...if his website can transmit data, why does the front page indicate otherwise?
No need to worry. The site is back online. Ready to roll!
This smacks of desperation by the Lieberman camp. It sounds like they lashed out before investigating. Even if it was a hack, this race is getting a lot of publicity and there are many Lamont sympathizers not connected to the campaign.
We're getting in contact with the company that hosts Lieberman's blog, and we'll let you know what we find out.
How come you guys --never get to the bottom of crap like you say you are?
You had an item about Lamont's Wal Mart stock and the Hotline said they had posed the question to the Lamont campaign and were waiting for an answer and would UPDATE with an answer?
And? a super chicken stuffed taco bell fried NOTHING....don't say it if you have no intention do what you actually say your are doing, inquiring.
Anyhow, Hotline seems to have a habit of "we're on it, we're asking, we'll get back to you" and um? you don't follow up like crap. Is it the DC time thing? Then don't say you'll be on crap, if you have no intention and a appletini is a callin'.
"We're getting in contact with the company that hosts Lieberman's blog, and we'll let you know what we find out."
I also wait anxiously for HOC to solve this mystery. Any word yet?
Site still down at 11:11 am eastern. Even a totally hacked site should have been back up within and hour or two (not 24+ hrs). I don't know why AShiningCity says it's back up.
Site still down at 11:11 am eastern. Even a totally hacked site should have been back up within and hour or two (not 24+ hrs).
This is definitely not hacking! Why would a hacker put up a message like the one below? Sounds like a desparate attempt. Its 1:11pm on Tuesday and this is the message that one gets when you goto Joe's site..
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UPDATE ON THE ATTACK ON THE LIEBERMAN CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
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STATEMENT FROM SEAN SMITH: "For the past 24 hours the Friends for Joe Lieberman's website and email has been totally disrupted and disabled, we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents. The campaign has notified the US Attorney and the Connecticut Chief State's Attorney and the campaign will be filing a formal complaint reflecting our concerns. The campaign has also notified the State Attorney General Dick Blumenthal for his review."
"We call on Ned Lamont to make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately. Any attempt to suppress voter participation and undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no place in our democracy."
Clearly the Lieberman campaign believes they were hacked; this text is now displayed at www.joe2006.com:
UPDATE ON THE ATTACK ON THE LIEBERMAN CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
STATEMENT FROM SEAN SMITH: "For the past 24 hours the Friends for Joe Lieberman's website and email has been totally disrupted and disabled, we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents. The campaign has notified the US Attorney and the Connecticut Chief State's Attorney and the campaign will be filing a formal complaint reflecting our concerns. The campaign has also notified the State Attorney General Dick Blumenthal for his review."
"We call on Ned Lamont to make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately. Any attempt to suppress voter participation and undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no place in our democracy."
You get what you pay for. Joementum's $12 million campaign decided to save some money by paying only $15/month to an outfit called MyHostCamp, which shares it's 10GB bandwidth server with 73 other customers. And not only has the Ned Lamont campaign offered the immediate services of their own web tech to go over and fix the problem, but in the meantime they are hosting a googlecache of Lieberman's web site at the top of their own.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/8/153827/3493
Why would Lieberman fake hacking?
It might be a mistake, and the campaign rushed to point a finger...but an actual scam or purposely acting on a total hunch sounds very un-Lieberman.
First off, Lieberman faces an end of his career, and he is not the kind of guy to go out in a gun battle.
Second, everything leads one to believe he has a good shot of keeping it close and/or winning (more likely keep it close). Minus any integrity one feels Lieberman has, why would he do something like that and most definitely screw himself over in November? Someone who is a Lamont fan might an outside shot if the race was 12-15 points in the polls not less than 8.
All the commentary over Lamon over Lieberman is mostly just TALKING heads. Fact is that Joe is not notable for anything over three senate terms. The Iraq war support is one small issue that contributed to his primary defeat. Connecticut wants representatives that will champion real causes on some-what of a regular basis (i.e. global warming, lost of middle class society, hunger, genocide, etc.)
"Minus any integrity one feels Lieberman has, why would he do something like that and most definitely screw himself over in November?"
Perhaps Lieberman's staff felt a scam like this could put him over the top in the primary, making November irrelevant? Particularly with the polls showing Lamont's lead narrowing considerably in the last few days?