Monday, July 12, 2004

MoveOn.org Moves Hitler Ad

Apparently, the "Bush is Hitler" ad was still being hosted by MoveOn.org earlier today, despite MoveOn's claim that the ad was removed. Drudge makes the flash and provides a link, however, the link now leads to a 404 error (page not found), meaning that MoveOn.org probably moved the ad again.

UPDATE: In trying to gain independent verification of this item, I did a Yahoo search on a portion of the file name (I used "renamed.again.renamed.mov"). The search results hit on one of MoveOn.org's /images directory ("vigilpics.moveon.org/images"). This directory is not currently available for access anymore, but opening up Yahoo's cached version of the directory shows the file clearly on the FTP server. Here's Yahoo's cached version:



I'm inclined to believe that the "Bush is Hitler" ad video was being hosted by MoveOn.org's servers until recently.

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