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John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked"

Posted by kdawson on from the careful-who-you-leach-from dept.

Several readers let us know about a little problem with presidential hopeful John McCain's MySpace page. Looks as though some staffer didn't read the fine print of the "credit" clause when selecting a template for the page. The template author and CEO of Newsvine, Mike Davidson, noticed this and didn't care too much. But the McCain page was pulling an image from Davidson's site, costing him bandwidth every time someone visited the candidate's MySpace page. So Davidson changed the image in question to read: "Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage... particularly marriage between two passionate females." Here is Davidson's account of the "immaculate hack".

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  1. I for one... by edwardpickman · · Score: 5, Funny

    approve and support McCain's new and elightened postion on female marriage.

    1. Re:I for one... by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I for one don't. I'd much rather they slept around. Variation keeps things interesting ;-)

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  2. Re:+1 Funny. by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're going to prank, prank the hard issues :-) I fully agree. He should have said: Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage... particularly marriage between two hod studs with hard cocks.

  3. Actually.. by yamamushi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats the whole reason I would have voted for him, hot one on one chick action legalization... :)

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  4. Re:Just wandering... by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact making intentionally deceiving people illegal could have catastrophic consequences on Christmas and Easter as we know it.

  5. How many friends? by pev · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well he's currently got 2813 friends on myspace - If I'm not mistaken, with Diebolds help that should be just enough to take the next presidency!

    ~Pev

  6. Re:Never... er... always check your references by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's a war hero - ok, fine. What difference does that make to my point? I don't care if he was Roger Ramjet or Captain America himself, having some campaign flunky set up a myspace account to get in touch with youth is just dumb.

    Captain America is DEAD, you insensitive clod!

    *runs off crying*
  7. Re:In my day... by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you call someone who still uses leetspeak after 2000?

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  8. Re:This could majorly backfire by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would someone who went to law school for eight years, then acted as a lawyer, then went back to law school for four more years, understand simple propriety and ownership? Yes.

    I wouldn't trust anyone who took 8 years to finish law school to understand much of anything...