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Joe Biden Tells America To Track Stimulus On Wrong Website

Look, when Joe Biden was growing up in Scranton, all the local guys — classy ones, they had CLASS back then — would end their damn websites with the same damn thing, “.com,” alright? They didn’t have any of this pansy ass “.gov” or “.org” or “.edu” or “.whateverthegoddamnthing” monkey business; it was either “.com” or nothing and you sucked it up, took it like a man. JESUS! So don’t go hollering at Joe Biden for referring to “Recovery.gov” as “Recovery.com” in a speech today and thereby boosting some private company’s new project, okay?, because who gives a rat’s ass what the damn thing is, all these sites look the same anyway…

“We’ve already set up a Web site, Recovery.com, which will show where and how the money is being spent,” the vice president told the leaders of the United States Conference of Mayors during a speech in the East Room of the White House. “The public can actually go on a Web site and see how we’re spending this money.”

But the stimulus site is not Recovery.com — it’s Recovery.gov. Recovery.com and Recovery.org earlier today both redirected to the commercial Web research company Onvia, a NASDAQ-traded $20 million business that’s been tracking government spending for a decade and that’s now also in the business of helping businesses secure government contracts being doled out under the stimulus bill.

The problem is that tons of people went to Recovery.com earlier today and discovered a website that will, in fact, track how the stimulus money is spent, but probably in much greater detail than whatever pretend-transparent bullshit Recovery.gov will offer.

Joe Biden is great.

The VP Gives Wrong Recovery Website [YouTube]
Misspeaking, Biden Directs Mayors to Private Web Company [Washington Post]


5:06 PM on Fri February 20 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. teebob2000 says at 5:13 pm, February 20th, 2009

    “Joe Biden Tells America To Track Stimulus On Wrong Website”

    Win

  2. V572625694 says at 5:14 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Alright, Obama’s done for. Biden’s useless. Geithner gets a FAIL. Who’s left? Come back, Jjud Ggreg!

  3. salt_bagel says at 5:15 pm, February 20th, 2009

    When W. misspoke, people had laffs and maybe a war would start. When Biden misspeaks, awesome stuff happens across the country. This is the difference.

  4. keepinitrealyo says at 5:16 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Reminds me of when Dick Cheney recommended factcheck.com during that first VP debate, which was a terrible mistake on two levels.

  5. I think the first time Barry loses his hopeyness will be with Joe Biden. He is so adorable even-though he is a walking talking error machine

  6. guerilla-nation says at 5:20 pm, February 20th, 2009

    monkey business? really? are we going to have to picket your offices, too?

  7. guerilla-nation says at 5:20 pm, February 20th, 2009

    oh wait, you’re talking about biden. what a baboon!

  8. SayItWithWookies says at 5:21 pm, February 20th, 2009

    WaPo: Misspeaking, Biden…
    So redundant.

  9. Oh hell to the no says at 5:23 pm, February 20th, 2009

    That man is gaff-tacular.

  10. Dr Tobias Funke says at 5:24 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Recovery.com redirects to recovery.gov automatically for me?!?

    Has the opposition been silenced / competition destroyed?!?

  11. I went to recovery.com and it redirects you to recovery.gov

  12. Dr Tobias Funke: Welcome to Barry’s totalitarian regime.

  13. grevillea says at 5:28 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Dr Tobias Funke: Well, durr, what’d you expect from a socialist Muslin govt?

  14. Dr Tobias Funke: It’s just those snarky bloggers failing to do their fact checking… I knew Denby was right!

  15. But now recovery.com mysteriously redirects to the .gov site

    Has the Onvia company been disappeared by government agents?

  16. IceCreamEmpress says at 5:34 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Gaffer Joe strikes again!

    Wait, that’s not really a big deal. I think Tom Ridge did the same thing with Ready.gov.

  17. Suds McKenzie says at 5:35 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Lets lock Joe and Meghan McCain in a room and figure out this whole “internet thing” once and for all.

  18. DustBowlBlues says at 5:35 pm, February 20th, 2009

    I don’t care what Joey’s done lately. He sent me a personal note with a picture of Pres. Obama (I still love the sound of that) taking the oath of office. Joe’s the best pen pal I’ve ever had, except for the fact the others didn’t hit me up for a donation to the DNC.

  19. SayItWithWookies says at 5:38 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Dr Tobias Funke: AngelaB: The Onvia folks redirected the sites ’cause Recovery.com and .gov weren’t supposed to be up and running yet. Biden outed ‘em. So they took the site offline for now and did the redirect. It’s at the bottom of the WaPo article linked above.

  20. Suds McKenzie says at 5:39 pm, February 20th, 2009

    oh, plus ” butt sex” … sorry.

  21. JimNewell says at 5:44 pm, February 20th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: What you said.

  22. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 5:44 pm, February 20th, 2009

    So Biden made a mistake but accidentally gave the address of a better site. That is the dictionary definition of pulling a “Homer”.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Defined

  23. blinky_twinkie says at 5:46 pm, February 20th, 2009

    There’s a Facebook group of 300-odd Catholics dedicated to trying to get Our Joe excommunicated from the Catholic Church. WHY CAN’T THEY JUST LEAVE THE GAFFER ALONE??!?!?!?!?!!?!?1 (…sob…)

    From their Basic Info: “One of the Spiritual Works of Mercy is to “admonish the sinner,” so an excommunication in this instance would be an act of mercy.”

  24. bitchincamaro says at 5:48 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Jebus. Paging Dr. Faux Pas. Joe’s waking moments are so error laden, I hope he wears an industrial strength full-on chin strap while sleeping next to that lovely wife of his. Oh, the breakfast table conversations must be really something.

  25. Eh, whatever. Biden is funny, seems nice, and is hella smart even though he and I don’t see eye to eye on how to interpret the Commerce Clause. He can gaffe all the livelong day and will still be a bazillion times better than this creepy guy skulking through the underbrush: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/us/politics/18cheney.html?_r=1&hp

  26. Texan Bulldoggette says at 6:03 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Leave Joe alone. It’s not like he said blackdildos.com or something. He was close!

  27. mayor_quimby says at 6:18 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Yeah, and now when you go to recovery.com it redirects to .gov
    Opening picture is of Obama giving us the STFU face he gave Biden that one time.
    All Is Well

  28. Nick vdK says at 6:24 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Oh Jesus, he’ll NEVER get over this gaffe! Just like the time Pat Buchanan was all, “Hitler rocks,” or MA Gov. Michael Duchovny was all, “Hello, I make riding a tank look totally gay and also I will make sure you get raped,” this will RUIN him.

  29. Mr. Herpes says at 6:34 pm, February 20th, 2009

    That’s why I love Joe Biden. He’s just a goof. Personally, I sleep better at night knowing my VP is just being the class clown instead of over at Langley, listening to the tapes of the waterboardings.

  30. Mr. Herpes: Agreed. He’s comic relief for tense Cabinet meetings.

  31. tallulah says at 6:41 pm, February 20th, 2009

    .org redirects too.

    who the hell is joe biden?????

  32. Good god I want this man to be president. I have for years. The urge is only getting stronger.

  33. Lazy Media says at 7:03 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Attababy, Joe, baby, hum baby, THROW it in there baby, STEERIKE! batter, whaddayamean, ump, where was that pitch, c’mon, Joe baby, hum it in there baby, attaboy, STEEERIKE! C’mon, ump, you need to borrow my specs now, whatsamatteryabum, now HUM, baby, Joe, boy, attababy, zing it in there boy, SWING batter, whatsamatter, ump, that was down the middle, now.

  34. recharged95 says at 7:43 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Basically, using today’s buzz term: Barry “call these guys out”, hopefully not in gestapo style. Biden, really, he is helping the economy (at least these guys for web traffic).

    recovery.com
    Domains by Proxy, Inc.
    DomainsByProxy.com
    15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
    Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
    United States
    Expiration Date: 23-apr-2012

    recovery.org
    Registrant Name:Bill Casti
    Registrant Organization:AQC
    Registrant Street1:PO Box 310
    Registrant City:Herndon
    Registrant State/Province:VA
    Registrant Postal Code:20172
    Registrant Country:US
    Registrant Phone:+1.7032440497
    Registrant Email:billcasti@gmail.com
    Expiration Date:18-Feb-2010 05:00:00 UTC

    And if these guys are smart, anyone touching these proxies will be getting spam or IP/hostname will be sold to the highest bidder (for spam).

    Yes, the internets love you.

  35. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 7:46 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Actually, Biden was trying to direct traffic to his personal porn site, Recovery.tz, featuring the best women that Delaware has to offer.

  36. Elizabeth says at 7:47 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Let’s see…how do I break this to you gently…hmmmm…Oh I know…why don’t you try going to recovery.com and see where you end up.

    You owe the Vice President an apology…or more, if I presume correctly.

  37. rocktonsammy says at 7:47 pm, February 20th, 2009

    Biden is just fucking with us, keeping it real. He speaks to me.

  38. rocktonsammy says at 7:57 pm, February 20th, 2009

    And the hot wife!

  39. sarcasticusername says at 9:28 pm, February 20th, 2009

    @jbd: dude’s kind of old, so that would pretty much require something bad happening to hopey; what kind of awful person are you? why do you hate unicorns and black people?

  40. windupbird says at 10:55 pm, February 20th, 2009

    All I know is that Joe is the perfect foil for Barry.

  41. This was no mistake. Look for a large offshore trade from Onvia shares in the previous trading session. I got a special exclusive email about it. It even had a candlestick chart in it so I knew it was serious

  42. DangerousLiberal says at 10:12 am, February 21st, 2009

    Whenever I see “website” and “stimulus” I just assume it’s NSFW.

  43. Hopefully they have enough sense not to send him out promoting whitehouse.gov…

  44. NoNewKidontheBlock says at 12:35 pm, February 21st, 2009

    WTF ….. is this guy stupid or what ….. what a bunch of MORONES ….. fuck’em …. fuck’em all!

  45. GooseInANoose says at 1:10 pm, February 21st, 2009

    Yeah, fuck the Morones. And fuck the morans while you’re at it.

  46. coolicula says at 2:22 pm, February 21st, 2009

    This just in: A survival story! Biden struggles to regain his footing in the Obamanation tribal council! All that remains to be seen is if he can remember where he left his feet!

  47. Captain Swing says at 4:54 am, February 22nd, 2009

    I say cut the Second Dude some slack.

    He’s just finished cleaning out the Dark Lord’s office- Who knows what unspeakable horrors he found there but can never tell. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is such a bitch.

    Besides, some old timers are still coming to grips with teh Intertubes.

  48. laurairene says at 1:14 am, February 23rd, 2009

    poor joe biden. he’s just old and doesn’t understand the internet.

  49. humble pinko says at 1:24 am, February 23rd, 2009

    Damn the series of tubes

  50. CrazyDrumGuy says at 8:32 am, February 23rd, 2009

    Recovery.com just got owned by the government, literally. Looks like Barry’s internet gremlins have bought recovery.com and recovery.org now redirect to recovery.gov. Win!

  51. CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us says at 3:31 pm, February 23rd, 2009

    Darkness: You mean whitehouse.com? I’ve made that mistake a couple times. Mostly on purpose, but whatever.

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