Because Rickrolling is all the rage with the kids, some pranksters had the bright idea to create the website FightTheSmears.org, a, um, companion site to FightTheSmears.com, Barack Obama's homepage for fending off Internet falsehoods. Except the .org version was a hoax site and, rather than come to Obama's defense, it perpetuated the rumors. (It's since been replaced by an explanation message.)

Clever! So clever, in fact, that MSNBC got caught up in the fake version of the site. While all this gets sorts out, we're going to long for the days of WhiteHouse.com, when it was a porn site. [video via NB]