Huffington Post Caught Hotlinking

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I defended Toby Keith from the Left in the past, in a piece called Huff Po Hackery, Part II , where some hack at the Puffington Host tried to smear Keith as a racist for his mention of hanging ne’er-do-wells in his song “Beer for my horses”.
The Huff Po piece used a picture of blacks being lynched, to roil the emotions and show just how despicable Toby Keith truly was…in what passes for a mind in Max Blumenthal. If you click on the link to my piece, you’ll see that Tiny Pic, the service I used to host the picture removed it (probably as too offensive). I will not defend myself from using a picture that most people would find offensive, because I was demonstrating the depth to which the Left often sinks in trying to vilify its opponents. (Keith was seen as a supporter of the war in Iraq at the time)
It appears that Mr. Blumenthal and the Huff Po apparently “hotlinked” the picture they used. Hotlinking is a form of bandwidth theft, where you “borrow” the picture by linking to its location on someone else’s site.
On of the problems of hotlinking, for the unwary, is that the person hosting the site from whence the picture originates, sometimes finds out about the theft and substitutes a different picture in place of the original, which then appears on the hotlinked sites. (see Rickrolling)
So, instead of a black and white picture, showing blacks being lynched, there is a full color picture of a clown, telling the Huff Po (and its readers we would presume), to “F” off!
Click on the link and see for yourself! Huffington Post
Too funny!
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The lady is Lake Bell, not Maria. I found her over at PicApp when I searched for “busted”.

  • sayanything-2

    Oopsie!! Why do they keep stealing from other,,,,,,,OH, yea, they are Democrats. Never mind!

  • sayanything-13

    When I catch people hotlinking photos on my site, I replace those photos with Bible verses. Far more offensive to some people than the F-bomb, plus it gives me an unconventional opportunity to spread God’s word.

    Cf

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Thanks for that! I’ll add that link as an update too. Good to know.

  • sayanything-2

    Hahahahaha!! Another long lost Kennedy whelp surfaces. Wonder which one was her daddy?

  • jimmypop

    thats good humor right there!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    badlands: I updated the post with a couple of links to help folk understand a little more about hotlinking.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Be sure to check out tonight’s Friday Night Babe and see if she has other assets that surpass Maria’s!

  • sayanything-3417

    Imagine that. A liberal forcibly taking from others to give to their audience.

    Color me surprised.

  • sayanything-2

    Hey? Where did you find that pic of Mz Schwarzenegger doing a cleavage adjust on the front page for this post?

  • sayanything-2

    Can’t wait!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I remember you hotlinking pictures here, too, Wnakertized!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I remember her from an occasional Boston Legal I caught, and the short lived series Surface.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1128572/

  • sayanything-4124

    Ahhh…I still don’t understand what hotlinking means! They took a picture you put up and used it on their website, so you changed the picture you had put up with the clown picture, and now this totally out of place picture is now on the article vs the picture they wanted?

    Is that what you mean? lol

  • sayanything-203

    Huff Po is full of n00bs that can’t figure a damn thing figured out.

    Headward,

    Perhaps. But it is also true that HuffPo is infested with “progressives” for whom rules, courtesies, and conventions are meant only for those who oppose their “Long March” toward statist nirvanna. For those on the far Left, hypocrisy is a congenital prerequisite.

  • sayanything-2

    Never heard of her. Why did she get a plastic surgeon to make her look like Maria?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It made me chuckle! If only there were a way to demonstrate their hackery without giving them a spike in their readership! But, I think it’s worth it!

  • sayanything-530

    As my 8 year old would say, “they were pwned” ! Too funny.

    What a bunch of douche bags.

    C.

  • sayanything-4253

    You got it.

    The problem is people who host the websites have to pay for bandwidth and server space. So hotlinking means you get to use the image without using up the server space or the bandwidth to upload it. The original person who posted the picture pays for all that.

    Very rude on teh interwebz.

  • hannitized

    As my 8 yo niece would say, what a bunch of douche bags!! I used her to say it, because I wouldn’t be so immature as to say something like that….or pwned.

  • headward

    That’s one of the unwritten rules of the internet. You hotlink, atleast get permission to do it. Huff Po is full of n00bs that can’t figure a damn thing figured out.

    I would have changed the picture to something that says the author/website is full of sh*t.

  • http://pursuingholiness.com/ sayanything-26743

    Blumenthal is a serial hotlinker.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Once upon a time all hotlinks to images from SAB would redirect to an image of a giraffe…ahem…mounting a rhino.

    Very effective deterrant.

  • http://www.locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com locomotivebreath1901

    Too funny! Thanks for the Christmas present.
    .

  • sayanything-4253

    So changing the picture is just their way of giving a middle finger to the offending party.

  • headward

    When you spread the bandwidth around, everybody wins.

  • sayanything-530

    Yeah, Hannitized, you are the model of maturity!

    C.

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