Sharon Rondeau has a December 20 article republished at Gerbil Report™ titled “Does the Obama Regime Control the Wayback Machine? ‘FightTheSmears’ link redirects to Obama Political Action Website.”
Charles Kerchner read the article and recast the title as: “Obama Scrubbing The Way Back Time Machine Internet Archives of His Criminal ID Document Fraud (Forged Short-Form CERTIFICATION of Live Birth Form) from The 2008 Election Cycle.”
So does this redirection indicate that Obama is scrubbing the Internet for all traces of his 2008 short-form birth certificate, or that once again the birther confuses their own incompetence with conspiracy.
As a matter of fact, I personally observed that the FightTheSmears web site went offline years ago, and attempts to access it were redirected then to BarackObama.com as they are today. So when the Web Archive “Wayback Machine” scanned the site, it got the redirected page just as everyone else did. However, older versions of the Obama site from before it went offline, still available at the Wayback Machine, have the original content, such as this capture from August 14, 2008 retrieved today (click on the image to access the actual Wayback Machine page).
For the edification of the birthers, I suggest the Wikipedia article on URL redirection. It explains that any domain can redirect web requests somewhere else, just as the webmaster of FightTheSmears did. It has nothing whatever to do with scrubbing or altering the Wayback Machine.