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Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com

netbuzz writes "The purchase of newtgingrich.com by a Democratic Super PAC — and the use of it to highlight Newt Gingrich's political weaknesses — is either amusing or a dirty trick, depending on your politics and your view of the Republican presidential hopeful. In either case, however, it is a cautionary tale about the importance of controlling your brand online, a task that is about to get more difficult for everyone thanks to the impending expansion of generic top-level domains."

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  1. It links to FREDDIE MAC by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just tried the link http://newtgingrich.com/ and up comes freddiemac.com, which you may recall is the organization that paid newt 50,000 per hour for consulting. Now Newt considers this a feather in his cap and a good example of how his intellectual abilities are well appreciated. So it hardly seems like this is sandbagging him. He'd approve of this recommendation.

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  2. Re:Dirty trick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    if you go to walmartsucks.com though, you don't expect to be redirected to walmart.com though...

  3. Re:Dirty trick by coinreturn · · Score: 3, Funny

    dicks.com actually takes me to dickssportinggoods.com. I agree with your other points though.

    Bummer. It should take you to dicks.cum

  4. Re:Dirty trick by jitterman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree, but you must admit, it was pretty funny several years ago to go to peta.com and get People Eating Tasty Animals.

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  5. Re:amusing or a dirty trick, depending on your??? by asylumx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr. Gingrich has a sorted political past

    Oh what to go with... how about this:

    Did he use a quick sort or a bubble sort? Maybe a merge sort?

  6. Speaking as a non-yank.. by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gingrich - isn't he the one that stole Christmas?

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  7. Re:Expecting honesty from politicians?!???!?!! by JazzLad · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no, no! You misunderstood - we need to tax only the poor! We can use that to fund the military.

    (fingers crossed that mods recognize tongue-in-cheek)

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  8. Re:amusing or a dirty trick, depending on your??? by PhrackCreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging from his marital history, an insertion sort.

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