March 13, 2004

Oops

According to Dori at Backup Brain, this page on the Bush campaign web site would let you enter any text you wanted to create a custom Bush/Cheney poster.

Reading the comments and visiting now, however, it looks like they started by trying to weed out words like "Iraq" and "Halliburton" and eventually just took off the option to enter your own text.

Backfire much? I guess it is a little embarrassing when more people are using it to create sarcastic posters than pro-Bush posters.

UPDATE: Wired gets in on the story.

Posted by John at March 13, 2004 11:38 AM
Comments

The absolute funniest part was that it had a bug in it (possibly due to an overloaded server): sometimes, it would take your input but give you back someone else's poster. It was a hoot--you never knew what you were going to get, but it was always anti-Bush.

Posted by: Dori at March 13, 2004 12:31 PM

It would be awesome if there was a site archiving all of the vitriol posted by people who are optimistic about November 2004 regime change.

Posted by: Ed Kohler at March 14, 2004 06:23 PM