For example, there's a pro-gun control website out there called ashcroftgunwatch.org that displays what appears to be a lifetime membership card for Ashcroft in the National Rifle Association together with a copy of part of his recent letter saying that his views on the Second Amendment protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. The letter excerpt is real, but the NRA membership card is a fake. The site's operators, the Violence Policy Center, claims it didn't mean it to be taken seriously. Meanwhile, if you go to a site called whitehouse.org, you can find a page that looks like the official White House presidential web page, except that it has a picture of President Bush's father instead of the son. That has led to e-mail comments about how stupid the White House must be.
Trouble is the site is a phony.
The real White House presidential web page is located at whitehouse.gov, not org, and the picture there, of course, is George W. himself. And what to make of Senator Jim Jeffords' website at senate.gov where there is a link to a Contact Jim page. There, you will find a form you can fill out giving your name and address, and there's space for a message to the senator. Trouble is there's no send button to allow you to dispatch the message. Showing support for a hungry man Al Sharpton, meanwhile, was on day two of his hunger strike in New York where he is serving a 90-day sentence for his part in a protest against the Navy's bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.