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A few years ago, we wanted to...
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try to help out with some activist's
anti-corporate activities.
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And we heard about this website
called rtmark.com.
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And we went there, and they...
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they handed us a domain name-
gwbush.com...
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and asked us if we might like
to make a website
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that was critical of George Bush.
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Because George Bush's real
domain name was georgewbush.com.
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And this was 1999,
so it was just during the campaign
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when he was beginning
to run for president.
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And we didn't really know
quite what to do,
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so we went to Bush's website
and looked at it.
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And it turned out to be full
of strange hypocrisies, like,
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for example, he called himself
"The environmental governor of Texas,"
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but we looked a little closer
at his record and found out
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that he had actually created
the most polluted state in the country
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because he dismantled
the Clean Air Laws while he was there.
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And, actually, that's, I guess,
what he's doing now nationally.
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So we thought,
"Well, this kind of hypocrisy
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we can easily poke fun at
by making a satire website."
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And we made this satire website
that looked exactly like Bush's
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except for a few key differences.
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Like there was a photo on the banner...
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instead of him and his wife
in front of the capitol building in Texas,
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we showed him pointing the finger
at black people.
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And this seemed to get him
a little bit angry.
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So the Bush campaign
tried to shut us down
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by sending us
a cease and desist letter
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and by complaining
to the Federal Election Commission.
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But we were able
to just take those threats
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and send them to the media.
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And immediately the New York Times
wrote an article,
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and there were a whole bunch
of other articles.
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In fact, one reporter
read these articles and,
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at a press conference,
asked Bush,
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"So, what about this website-
gwbush.com-what do you think of that?"