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03/11/2004: "Kerry's world wide web f up"

When the Rolling Stone interviewed John Kerry on December 2, the Massachusetts Senator asked, "Did I expect George Bush to f--- it as badly as he did...?" Not surprisingly, as Matt Drudge reported March 8, the interview appeared on his presidential campaign web site. (As of this writing, the interview is still there.)

But according to The Boston Herald,

A spokesman for Kerry said he believed the Web site was struck by ``a virus'' yesterday. He then promised to get back to us with a better story, but never did.

Granted, the Herald story does not actually say what that computer virus did. Senator Kerry's spokesman seems to be saying that a computer virus either unbleeped a bad word or inserted a page with a bad word on it, complete with links from another page.

I wonder if the spokesman's pants are on fire.
Addendum----------------------------------------------
On second thought, I'm probably being a bit imprecise. It is not one bad word in question, but many two bad words sprinkled throughout the web site. I concentrated on that one instance to demonstrate that this is not some rogue occurance that no one knows about. My error, though, does not make the virus explanation valid.