"Progressive" Caught Sponsoring Race-Baiting Web Site

Captain Ed exposes a "Progressive" sposoring a bogus web site for Republican Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson. Henry Reynolds who Captain Ed identifies as an Attorney working in Santa Monica, CA is listed as the Registrant for http://www.imwithfred2008.com/. The the site was obviously set up to confuse Thompson supporters with the candidate's real site http://www.imwithfred.com/.

The bogus site at first featured a banner welcoming people to the Ku Klux Klan with a title that read, "Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!" and featured links to various race-hating web sites. The Captain then posed the question why would someone sponsor a hate site like this and try and link Fred Thompson with it? He researched on-line political donation records of Henry Reynolds and found contributions to MoveOn.org here and John Kerry for President here. Captain Ed provides another link to the FEC Electronic Filing Report Retrieval web site that purportedly shows a $500.00 contribution to DNC Services however that link does not appear to be working at this time.

After the Captain exposed this bit of Tom-Foolery he reports the bogus web site went through a variety of permutations, from KKK hate site to the John Edwards campaign site to deviant sex and now to a Wikipedia entry for Fredric Jameson literary critic and Marxist political theorist. Perhaps this is Henry Reynolds hero. I'd link to the site but I'm afraid of what might pop up next!

Mr. Reynolds has gone through a number of further contortions on the web after the discovery of his on-line subterfuge. Ed writes:

Apparently, we got Henry Reynolds' attention. He has had GoDaddy change the domain registration information to list the owner as DomainsbyProxy of Scottsdale, AZ. Too bad I decided to cache the domain registration here earlier, as well as the website.

To show that all denizens of the left are not equated with Henry Reynolds Ed cites the Middle Earth Journal that writes in "When Henry Met Stupid", there is more information to be gathered before anyone can be absolutely sure of what's going on here. I mean, it's certainly possible that Henry is actually a gay member of the KKK with a life partner named Fred who will celebrate their anniversary in 2008, but somehow it seems to lack the ring of truth.