I loved the headline Will Bunch had on his blog this morning about the Dick Cheney’s George Soros/Factcheck.com debacle, “Why George Soros is a billionaire — and you’re not!”
There’s been endless speculation online over the last dozen hours or so about whether someone from Soros’s shop had snatched up the domain on hearing the VP’s goof or cut some deal with the owner of the site or perhaps owned it all along.
But apparently the Soros people had nothing to do with it.
This morning I spoke with Soros’s senior aide and spokesman Michael Vachon. And he told me that they hadn’t snatched up the domain or made a deal with anyone. In fact, they had no idea what happened.
However the site got redirected to Soros’s site, he told me, it was something done by the owner of the domain and not by them. They were as surprised as everyone else.
Myself, I kind of preferred the fast-moving Soros cyber-coup theory that everyone’s been going on. But they say it just ain’t so.
