Remember the photo of Karl Rove carrying a Coptix folder that proves the WH

[NYCGirl]

was using non-WH email systems for gwb43.com? Turns out it was a fake — planted on April Fool's Day by COPTIX!

Here's the original thread about it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=557422



And here's the confession from Coptix:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/absolutenm/templates/blog-1.aspx?articleid=13342&zoneid=11

Despite these credentials, both sites somehow missed a very important fact -- one that every journalism student learns early. This tidbit is taught not in any journalism syllabus, but in the hack newspapers that appear on college and grad school campuses during the first week of April. Somehow, nobody noticed that the story happened to break on the weekend of April Fool's Day.

Yes, it's true: it's not true. We used Photoshop to superimpose the name of our company and a folder under Rove's arm, and asked a local "right winger" to plant it on his blog.

The timing could not have been more perfect, especially given the atmosphere of suspicion that Rove & Co. are doing business via e-mail that is hosted at Chattanooga's Smartech/Airnet Group, rather than federal servers. Coptix, our company, provides backup DNS hosting for Smartech/Airnet. So when any well-meaning muckraker runs a search for domain names such as "gwb43.com" or "georgewbush.com," the nameservers listed for those domain names will include the Smartech server and a Coptix server.

DNS hosting does not involve user accounts or storage, in fact, Coptix has no contact whatsoever with the RNC or anyone in the current president's administration. DNS is simply the basic routing of Internet traffic. In fact, it's one of the most basic technologies that govern the Internet.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I wouldn't want Karl Rove appearing to endorse my product

unless it was license plates he'd made in prison maybe!

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/999005

[NYCGirl]

3. Good point! But I guess they just wanted a good April Fool's stunt. NT

[DCKit]

2. I'll bet Rove thinks it was Hystorical!!!!

Just what he needed at that moment in time.