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[Two-Faced]

two faced

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[StopTheMorans]

2. what the hell is this?

and how do you have 1000 posts if you joined yesterday? creepy! :scared:

[MallRat]

13. Is this part of some stealth marketing rollout of a DNC ad campaign?

Whatever it is, it has definitely gotten my attention.

Picture this: I'd love to start seeing banner ads on Yahoo with the two-faced picture... and no explanation. Then you'd click on it, and it would just link to a bigger version of the same damn picture, with still no explanation.

The buzz would be huge.

OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH
OBEY BUSH

-MR

[StopTheMorans]

15. a lot of people thought the same thing about Question W

brilliant idea; damn complacent media got in the way...

[russian33]

26. Eschaton has it too at atrios.blogspot.com

[StopTheMorans]

3. delete

dupe

[MallRat]

4. Deeper down the rabbit hole...

Curiouser and curiouser...

-MR

[eyesroll]

5. If this is the best the DNC can come up with,

we are well and truly screwed.

[StopTheMorans]

6. I'll second that

what the hell ever happened to "Question W"?

[Javaman]

35. How about Preperation W? LOL

[drfemoe]

70. that sounds like

homeopathy. Use the offending agent to cure the offending agent.

[nostamj]

57. basically, people lost interest...

however, if you missed it, there WAS a political cabaret show called "The Question W Revue" this summer....

we're doing ONE more performance on election eve

www.questionw.com

[bratcatinok]

7. Is this the October surprise only a little early?

Strange isn't it?

[StopTheMorans]

10. this would be a pretty lame October surprise

n/t

[tigereye]

22. you said it!

so is it someone here? That's what my husb. said when I told him about the Gorshin *. He said it wouldn't be that hard to do. \

I am afraid the DNC isn't that imaginative.

[TahitiNut]

44. Well, it's a DNC site, according to WhoIs ...

09/24/04 14:56:50 whois www.twofacesofbush.com
.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
Searches for .com can be run at http://www.crsnic.net/

whois -h whois.crsnic.net twofacesofbush.com ...

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: TWOFACESOFBUSH.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: DNS19.REGISTER.COM
Name Server: DNS20.REGISTER.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 14-sep-2004
Creation Date: 14-sep-2004
Expiration Date: 14-sep-2005


>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:47:44 EDT <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Redirecting to REGISTER.COM, INC.

whois -h whois.register.com twofacesofbush.com ...

Organization:
Democratic National Committee
DNC Webmaster
430 S Capitol St SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: TWOFACESOFBUSH.COM

Created on..............: Tue, Sep 14, 2004
Expires on..............: Wed, Sep 14, 2005
Record last updated on..: Tue, Sep 14, 2004

Administrative Contact:
Democratic National Committee
DNC Webmaster
430 S Capitol St SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: [phone]
Fax..: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS19.REGISTER.COM 216.21.234.80
DNS20.REGISTER.COM 216.21.226.80

Register your domain name at http://www.register.com

[KoKo]

47. Thanks Tahiti, for this info.....I'm not tech savy and this whole thing

has creeped me out, expecially the flip answers that were "non-answers," about "two-faced."

It worried some of us who are a little more paranoid out there, when we are tense anyway this close to the election seeing that damned thing pop up with no explanation from anyone like it was a joke than only some insiders knew about.

It's a DNC campaign...fine. The joke being on "us" first is a little low
IMHO...but I guess I need to lighten up.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

59. Nope, I totally disagree

it's fucking brilliant.

You know all those people DUers are always bitching about who only respond to short, simple messages?

Two-faced.

Two-faced.

Two-faced.

Two-faced.

Two-faced.

The two-faced picture, inexplicably, everywhere.

Two-faced.

Get it? Marketing wise, it's brilliant. Short, easy to understand, emotional aspect, sweet.

[drfemoe]

71. ya-but

two is too high. He has zero faces, imo.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

63. I don't think so...IMHO

It's like the target campaign or the ghostbusters campaign. Grab the interest of the people with something nice and simple and make them work to find the answer. It's awesome!

[dolo amber]

8. .......

:boring:

[sffreeways]

9. A donor too

what have we unleashed ?? I hope you're having fun...

[DrWeird]

11. Not a terribly flattering image of Bush, is it?

So what's the score?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. 1000 plus posts and you registered today?

You could have at least said ASK ME ANYTHING :D

[johnnie]

14. Did DU get sold to the DNC?

[tigereye]

23. silly!

[Bunny]

16. I think it's Grovelbot, in clever disguise.

Trying to scare the crap out of us and make us donate.

[MallRat]

18. ***GROVELBOT*** Donate or DIE!

n/t

[mrboba1]

20. beat me by 2 minutes!

That's what i was thinking!!!

[Xipe Totec]

17. It's *'s Abattoir!

Slaughterhouse 2-face. :scared:

[MallRat]

19. Now it's replaced "miserable failure" at the bottom of the page!!!

Is this a Google-bomb campaign?

-MR

[prolesunited]

21. Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner! Give that man a prize!

[prolesunited]

27. Here's a couple of links explaining Google bombs

http://www.wordspy.com/words/Googlebombing.asp

http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm

[Carni]

28. I don't get it?

I must be really out of the loop but what would be the purpose of having that appear on google with no explanation? LOL

[jeff30997]

36. The purpose ?

Everybody here is talking about it isn't it ? The kid needs attention.

[slinkerwink]

25. could be? I have no idea---I hate being in the dark about this

[Carni]

24. Is this like a Halloween thing?

It's getting freaking annoying whatever it is...LOL

[sffreeways]

29. Why no explaination from skinner ?

Didn't this show up in the middle of the night last night ? It sure is getting some attention.

[tigereye]

30. see the admin forum

someone in another lounge thread said it was a DNC thing, but I am skeptical.

[eyesroll]

31. Well...the link goes back to a DNC page, so it's at least partially

a DNC thing.

Whether the DNC suggested doing the googlebomb, I don't know.

[tigereye]

32. again, it sounds too imaginative for them

and too off-beat.

[eyesroll]

34. Nah -- it's been what, years, since "miserable failure"

It's not imaginative anymore.

The DNC is perfectly capable of believing that google-bombing and getting attention on left-wing sites is actually going to somehow convince people who aren't already convinced to vote for Kerry to do so.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. Yes. Bush is a two-faced asshole.

[MallRat]

37. OBEY

OBEY

[jeff30997]

38. It's not the RNC,the CIA or ET...

It's just a stupid teen in his basement who needs attention.And it's working big time!

[LoZoccolo]

61. ...and the BBC...B.B. King...Matt Busby...and Doris Day!

Dig it! Dig it! Dig it! Dig it! Dig it! Dig it! Dig it! Dig it!

[Melinda]

39. It's Skinner; the DNC has registered the site -- Keep watching

http://www.twofacesofbush.com/

Collusion. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=120x22242

[johnnie]

40. I don't think it is Skinner alone

[WillyT]

42. The Problem I Have With It...

Is that we're being so cute about the whole thing. Just like the avatar thingy the other day, I assumed we'd been hacked!!!

Now I get a two-faced flash when I log on, and I assumed the problems at DU (database, bugs, hackers) had gone bonkers.... right before the debates and the election!!!

So... am I to take it everything is OK???

:shrug:

[Lizz612]

62. Yes

Everything is fine. I think that its like that Subservient Chicken thing in that it will be everywhere before anyone really knows what it is. If you looked at the bottom of the Subservient Chicken thing it had a little bit about BK and only later was it clear that was just marketing. This has a little bit about it being owned by the DNC. Why shouldn't the DNC use this kind of marketing?

And the google bomb is always helpful.

[drfemoe]

72. rofl

your sig line!!! :bounce:

[Longhorn]

41. I think it's a campaign to counter the "flip-flop" charges

against Kerry. If you come right out and say Bush* is two-faced, it's ignored. If the buzz is created in the grassroots and gets picked up by the media, it will get more attention.

I'm not in advertising or anything but I do watch The Apprentice. :D

[Catherine Vincent]

45. Well imo, they are countering it in the wrong place.

They need to counter it in right wing cesspools like freerepublic and talk radio or something.

[LTR]

43. Oh yeah?

BOO!

[wildeyed]

48. Boo, made me laugh

:P

[Endangered Specie]

46. Dont y'all get it... Its really just the admins...

playing a big one over us, no less. Go and read some of Skinners responses in ATA to the forums related to this. Who else has the power to make a member a doner and 1000 posts in a days time? And if it were a freeper attack, itd be terminated by now.

[wildeyed]

49. Added ole Two-Faced as my email sig line.

I like to have something fun there. Click through and just a big two faced Bush and no explanation. Cool.

[Duncan Grant]

50. I had to deface it.

V is for Victory. You're going down pResident Asshat.

[slutticus]

51. Anyone notice that Two-Faced has the exact same number of posts...

...as GrovelBOT? 1003

They are indeed one and the same......

[Goldmund]

52. It isn't Skinner.

It's bigger than just DU. Do some surfing through other liberal sites/blogs. Do a WHOIS on www.twofacesofbush.com.

It's absolutely brilliant, for a shitload of reasons. But let's not talk about it yet -- before we collectively start removing the veil from the mystery, even with informed speculation, let it expand.

[Cooley Hurd]

58. It IS brilliant, isn't it?

I'd love to see it followed up with a television ad campaign - just the two-face graphic, ominous music, and a scrolling list of * failures (but not by the Kerry campaign, by the DNC).

:thumbsup:

[Goldmund]

66. Or maybe the two-face graphic should remain like "Deep Throat"

The talking heads will pick up on it, I'm sure -- right after they get the green light from KKKarl via Drudge.

But nobody will ever own it. It will just stand there as the unspoken but unavoidable evil Borg face, with the bright "freedom and security" half discordant with the "evil intent" and "real death" half, haunting Bush parrallel to what we all know they are really doing but cannot be heard.

[Misunderestimator]

53. Has anyone noticed that searching for his posts brings up hits, but leads

to no posts from Two-Faced?

[Blue-Jay]

54. Oh, fer crying out loud, Skinner.

All that drama for a goddamn google-bomb?

<sigh>

[troubleinwinter]

55. What's the frequency, Kenneth?

[LoZoccolo]

60. Courage. n/t

[AmericanErrorist]

56. On the web site itself:

Paid for by the Democratic National Committee — 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington DC 20003.
This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

[NVMojo]

64. rather be an f-f then be a two faced liar

as a flip flopper, one is still searching for the right answers but as a two faced liar, that takes fecking cold hearted calculation. I like the ad, hope it does expand into more ads. Besides, not all in America are smart like DU-ers. Most live by one act lines that are spoonfed from the KKKarl Rove lying machine. Remember, he believes and has been proven right, feed someone a lie at least five times and soon they are believers.

Believers who possess one fecking lonely bee-bee rolling around inside their heads ...

[drfemoe]

73. welcome!

to Du :hi:

[stepnw1f]

65. Is it a Virus?

Suitable term for a fascist.

[Name removed]

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

68. Welcome, WW!

:toast:

I think the image is great. Very Big Brotherish,

[tuvor]

69. Just noticed on BuzzFlash

that there are about a half-dozen "two faced" references on their home page.

Hmmmmmmmm....

[Dem_Loyalist]

74. I'm curious

Has anyone seen this mentioned or reported anywhere but here at DU? I would expect it to be getting headlines elsewhere if it was being done by a group as big as the DNC.

[foo_bar]

75. it's meant to be subliminal

or subliminable in this case.

[DeepModem Mom]

76. Sorry, it creeps me out, and makes me uneasy --

it's menacing. I'm plenty frightened of Bush already.

[JohnnyCougar]

77. I think that's the point

Fight fear with fear. People have to be a little scared of Bush to think he is evil.

[NEDem]

78. didn't any of you read Orwell.

Its amazing how closely that picture resembles what I pictured the Big Brother banners in 1984 looking like.

[Mr Bojangles]

79. I don't think enough people *have* read 1984

I just read it for the first time about a month ago.

It's downright creepy to think that he wrote it in the late 40's.

I, for one, do not love Big Brother.

[athena]

80. I put up a Bush-Orwell 2004 poster, and someone actually didn't get it.

He thought it was a pro-Bush poster!