European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 March | 84 comments (84 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Conservative Party `Cash Gordon' campaign was designed by US anti-healthcare lobbyists | Political Scrapbook

On the day the US Congress passed legislation providing health coverage to 32 million Americans without insurance, Political Scrapbook can reveal the Conservatives' Cash Gordon campaign was developed by an anti-healthcare lobbyist described as "Karl Rove 2.0″.
Writing on the Blue Blog yesterday, the affable Sam Coates claimed that Conservatives' campaign site against Labour/Unite links was "built in just a few days". What he doesn't tell you is that the system has been purchased off-the-shelf from Republican strategists David All Group and was originally developed to galvanise opposition to Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.
Cash Gordon is based on Operation Waiting Game, which leverages social media against reforms which, it is claimed, "will have the same devastating effects in the United States as it has in Canada and in nations across Europe: longer wait times and lower quality care".
In an embarrassment for CCHQ, the party's flagship campaign is currently hosted alongside those attempting to "rescue America from government-run health care",

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 08:25:56 AM EST
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Oh dear, there's been a day of messing around with this site, Firstly someone noticed that it had a direct twitter feed , so anyone could put up messages onto the page, then it was noticed that you could drop links in, so chaos has ensued.

So usual lack of understanding of social networking.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:24:23 AM EST
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LOL

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:38:29 AM EST
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Liberal Conspiracy » #cashgordon crashes and burns

In the last few minutes, the Conservative Party has taken down its Cash Gordon website after a major security failure which allowed twitter users to rick-roll the site using javascript embedded in a tweet.
To compound Tory embarrassment, one of the sites to which visitors were briefly redirected featured an image of three naked old men engaged in an explicit sex act, although the Tories can, perhaps, consider themselves lucky not have been Goatse-rolled at any point during today's debacle.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:38:44 AM EST
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and from the comments on the Telegraphs article about this page

Charlie Whelan has become an unwilling guinea pig for the Tories' online team - Telegraph Blogs

I'm shocked that the Telegraph would link to such disgusting images, the likes of which I have never before seen.
I shall be writing a letter to the editor at once requesting your dismissal. I hope you're suitably ashamed of yourself, Mr. Heaven.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:44:16 AM EST
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the Conservative Party has taken down its Cash Gordon website after a major security failure which allowed twitter users to rick-roll the site using javascript embedded in a tweet

Sounds about right. That's what you'd expect given

that Conservatives' campaign site against Labour/Unite links was "built in just a few days". What he doesn't tell you is that the system has been purchased off-the-shelf

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:56:50 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 March | 84 comments (84 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)