LMAO! RNC’s New Website Reflecting Steele’s ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Riddled With Errors,

[Happyhippychick]

Widely panned.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) proudly launched its new website at GOP.com today, saying that it “will promote increased grassroots participation and innovation, better communication, improved platform compatibility and smarter marketing and fundraising tools for the GOP.” When a visitor goes to the site, the first thing he or she sees is a miniature floating Michael Steele walking onto the page with a greeting (similar in style to the old Microsoft Word Office Assistant):

The RNC press release announcing the site highlighted its widgets, tie-ins to other social media networks, and open platform. But here are the real highlights of the site (which is being widely mocked):

– Michael Steele’s Blog Called ‘What Up?’: In his first post, titled “Let me ask you,” Steele talks about how he finds the Internet an “amazing platform” for “life.”

– No Future Leaders: The new RNC site dedicates a section to “Future Leaders” of the GOP, but after it launched, the page was still empty. It has now been updated asking people to submit the names of possible future leaders.

– Misnaming Jackie Robinson A GOP ‘Hero’: The RNC tries to portray the party as diverse on its GOP ‘Heroes’ page (even though there is currently only one non-Hispanic minority serving as a Republican in the House and the Senate and only two percent of blacks identify as Republican), with people of color making up almost half the list. However, one of the people listed as a “great Republican” is baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who actually identified himself as an independent. In fact, Robinson spoke out about the “hatred” he saw at the 1964 GOP convention, where Barry Goldwater won the nomination. He called it “one of the most unforgettable and frightening experiences of my life.”

– Lists The ‘Iraw’ War As A Republican Accomplishment: The GOP takes ownership of Operation Iraqi Freedom at its ‘Accomplishments’ page, writing, “Five months later, in March 2003 President Bush ordered 250,000 U.S. troops into Iraw.” (View a screenshot here.)

And here is the best part: you can't access it because it crashed minutes after it was launched!

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More at http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/13/rnc-new-website/

[MineralMan]

1. They're exploiting the interwebs now, I see.

Pretty soon, the Google will be able to find the site. Then people will be able to point their web browsers to GOP.com. That's rilly, rilly cool. All the cool kids will want to go to GOP.com.

Sing along with me:

On the internet! On the Internet!
Go GOP.Com on the internet!
h t t p colon double slash
w w w dot g o p dot c o m!
On the Internet! On the Internet!


LOG IN TODAY, KIDS! IT'S GREAT!

[drm604]

2. Yea, it's been up and down all day.

Some times it's up, sometimes it's down, and sometimes it loads without any css so it's nothing but text.

Naming his blog "What Up" is just too ridiculous for words. They truly are clueless.

[MineralMan]

3. What up! That's cool street talk, just in case you didn't know.

The new GOP. It's cool!
All the cool kids are logging in and getting down with the GOP.

[drm604]

6. Yes, I know.

That's what makes it so ridiculous. Could they be any more patronizing towards African Americans?

Do they really believe that it will attract minorities to their party? I find it hard to believe, but apparently so.

Clueless, clueless, clueless...

[MineralMan]

8. Next, Steele will be doing freestyle rap on the site.

Amazing.

[drm604]

11. Hell, I'm a middle aged white guy

and even I can see how ridiculous and offensive it is.

[robo50]

13. cool street kids are SO LIKELY to "get down" with the GOP!

Yeah, this is really gonna be a help to that party.

[Caliman73]

17. You down wit GOP?...yeah you know me! You down wit GOP?...yeah you know me!

Who down with GOP? EVERY LAST CRAZY!!!:rofl:

[nolabear]

34. HOWL!!!

[calimary]

25. Yeah - that's how they "roll."

Heavens! Give me a break!

[Happyhippychick]

22. Fo shizzle!

[MineralMan]

23. Can't touch this...

[TroglodyteScholar]

38. Yea!

drm604 is just bein' a jive turkey!

[drm604]

40. ROFL

:rofl:

[Warpy]

4. Any Democrat over 35 who tries to plug into teenage culture

looks ridiculous. Any Republican who tries to do it looks nauseating.

I'm not surprised their attempt to look au courant, hip and with it is falling flat on it's pudgy, middle aged face.

It's actually a good thing they didn't make the Democratic mistake of using all the modern bells and whistles as adults talking to adults. Their site might not be such a total failure.

They should have realized a long time ago that they can't possibly connect with groups they have a long history of despising. That includes but is not limited to youth, blacks, urbanites, Hispanics, and women.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Republicon Pharisees = FAIL

[bleever]

7. "...liberated more then 23 million people"

from the tyranny of liberal grammar fanatics?

(In the paragraph under "Accomplishments" citing the "Iraw War". I kid you not.)

[Happyhippychick]

9. I swear these people could teach The Onion a thing or two about satire.

[Happyhippychick]

10. Under "Current Political Issues" it is blank.

:rofl:

Oh wait, it's back. They found an issue.

[redqueen]

12. LOL... republicans

:rofl:

[Happyhippychick]

14. The entire site is an outreach to minorities. That should go over well with the skinhead base.

[robo50]

15. Should go over well with the racists, the selfish, the fearful, and the

common ordinary hard-working angry Republicans who hate affirmative action, hate cops, hate hate hate.

Of course, I'm being sarcastic.

[MineralMan]

16. The funny thing is that the site's so lame, that it'll probably

be hacked almost immediately. Too many entry points, I'll bet, and there's probably a transparent admin password in there somewhere.

Tempting, but I think I'll pass.

[MineralMan]

19. Sign in

Username: Admin
Password: Password

[drm604]

32. You're joking right?

I'm certainly not going to try it.

[MineralMan]

39. Yes. I didn't try it. It's a joke.

It's not unusual, though, for sites to have really transparent security. And this site is probably being built by relatively inexperienced, naive (read cheap)designers. I have no doubt whatever that any hacker worthy of the name could break in within an hour or two. All you'd need is imagination.

[drm604]

42. I think you're right.

It isn't going to be me though (not that I'm a hacker, just a software guy). I think that's a federal offense.

[MineralMan]

46. Yes, it is. More useful would be a parody site, I think.

Dupe their look and give 'em a run for the money.

Sadly, I don't have the time and energy for it.

All of their coding is in the open, including all of their Java scripts. That's what I mean by their lack of security. I was just browsing through some of their scripts. They're competent, but that's about it.

So far, they haven't even populated their metatags. It's sort of funny, really, to look at some of the source. Looks like college kid stuff, for the most part.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

18. I went to check it out and this is what I got::

Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer() in Unknown on line 0

...Then I tried again and it worked. BTW, some auto dealership sites I do SEO work on, use the same video thingy you see Michael Steele using, to sell used cars. Fitting, I guess.

[Happyhippychick]

20. LOL! Anything Republican is a "fatal error".

[MineralMan]

21. Well, if a guy could hack the site, and I'm certainly not suggesting

that anyone do such a thing, you understand, replacing that video thing with Al Jolsen in blackface singing "Mammy" would be a nice touch. I believe the video is on youtube.

[Mari333]

24. old white guys doing rap just does not work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_g4ecaFfP0&feature=related

[bullwinkle428]

26. "Yo, yo, yo, my peeps! It's Mikey Steele...jus' keepin' it real!"

[Happyhippychick]

27. "Stewardess, I speak jive."

[hootinholler]

35. LOL

:rofl:

[robo50]

28. Thousands of hits per second from all over is probably bringing it

down.

I can't get in, and I SO MUCH want to see each and every page.

[MineralMan]

29. Yah...it's a DOS attack! More than 12 people are trying to

access it at once. That cheap hosting stuff never works.

Host Your Site! Just $7.99/MO!

[tanyev]

30. Even Clippy is cooler than Michael Steele.

Yo! What up, dawgs!

[CakeGrrl]

31. Surely they don't want to alienate their Teabagger base?

All this "Ebonics" will get their blood boiling!

And to the guy who wondered why there wasn't a Spanish-language page, well dude: The GOP really doesn't much care for diversity. But you'll find that out the long way.

[nolabear]

33. I finally got on. I really did LOL.

They want you to submit your face for "The Face of Republicans." They will select faces to put up on the site. So far? Ethnic. Way ethnic. No agenda there, Sparky. and "What Up?" is just plain priceless. It's Gramps McSteele Hangs with the Internets Homes. How can people with so damn much money be so BAD at things?

[JNelson6563]

36. lolz

Too funny. Loosers. ;-)

[KamaAina]

37. "For what other awards should President Obama be nominated?"

option 1:1. Heisman Trophy
option 2:2. Hollywood Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
option 3:3. Bud Light’s Real Men of Genius Award
option 4:4. America’s Next Top Model
option 5:5. Humility In Action Award From Arianna Huffington

Stay classy, Repukes. :eyes:

[MineralMan]

41. Hey, they say they're looking for 'coders.'

Now, there's an opportunity just begging to be exploited...

They want code...a guy could give them some code...

[drm604]

43. I'm looking for work.

I don't know if I'm that desperate though.

[MineralMan]

45. They ain't paying...

Your pay is getting to participate, doncha know...

[EFerrari]

44. Maybe they mean they're looking for Ry Cooder?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5lvMkuDNg

[MineralMan]

47. That could be. Or they're looking for cooters.

That'd be my guess.

[subcomhd]

48. What up? Too funny for words. What up, indeed. nt