I have it on good authority that the Egg Man is trying to shore up his sagging credibility and nonexistent popularity with the American public by launching his own fan club and web site. Although still in the development stages, I understand that the site is being designed and operated mostly by Karen Hughes, Les Kinsolving (Ari's biggest fan from the White House Press Corps) and Fleischer's doting spinster auntie, Miss Eunice Fleischer. Eunice, Les, and Karen are very excited to have landed the site's first two big sponsors: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Boring Spokespeople and the American Egg Council.

Here's the fan club page: http://www.probush.com/arifanclub.htm Eunice and Kari had to write most of the testimonials here, but figured it would help Ari's sagging self esteem and might inspire others to write in and say kind things. Not taking any chances, Eunice has sent self-addressed-stampled envelopes and a list of suggested comments out to Ari's friends and other family members and a postscript that reads: "If you can't find something nice to say about Ari, then just don't say anything at all!" Responding to the call, the Egg Council rep is working on an essay about the perfect ovate shape of Ari's head.

Seriously, though......the above link to the Ari fan club, while not really sponsored by the American Egg Council (and I am not sure if Ari has an Aunt Eunice, but I bet he has a doting auntie or two), is a real site, believe it or not. And serious, apparently. It is part of a larger, bizarre site called ProBush.com. This site is something right out of a bad-dream-come-true. Check it out...but make sure you have a barf bag handy. http://www.probush.com/

Here you will find testimonials to the greatness, depth, and sexiness of Ari Flesicher, along with a "List of Traitors" and a "List of Patriots." (Strangely, the list of traitors seems inaccessible). The site's slogan is Bush's statement about how people are either with us or against us. The site has got to be one of three things: 1. a satire so biting that it is not funny, or 2. A for-real hatemongering fan club of the Bush administration run by a group of sick puppies, 3. a hatemongering fan club set up by someone in the Bush administration - as in Ari Fleischer for real.

On nearly every page, there is this statement: "All emails sent to ProBush.com are monitored by the US Government." Now who else could claim this except someone in the government, or someone truly stupid, willing to risk making such a false claim. Since the site is super slick, we suspect the site operators are not in the latter category.

When you try to find who set up the site (via Whosis domain tracer), you find that it has been registered anonymously through the new "Domains by Proxy, Inc." outfit, which offers anyone the opportunity to set up websites without the public every knowing who is behind it. Here's the scoop:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27150.html

Which leads me to what I think the real story is here: the new hidden domain owner scam. I suspect that the founding of the "anonymous domain holder" is a slick pre-election year move. The idea is to establish this new bit of flim flam firmly and have time to set up several corporate front sites posing as "citizens groups" that will, of course, support Bush.

Under this scheme, we could have the KKK financing and backing ProBush.com, for all we know, or it could be the brainchild of Ari Fleischer or even Bush himself! The possibilities are endless. A site that purports to be a "patients against anti-universal health care" movement could be run and financed by the medical insurance industry! A kiddie porn operation could finance and operate an innocent looking for kids Thanks to this new loophole, the corporations, shady politicoes, flimflam artists and other predators will have a whole new avenue for deceiving and bilking the public.