ORLANDO, Florida – George Zimmerman's website seeking money for his legal defense may have been shut down, but apparently not before pulling in quite a haul for the high-profile Florida murder defendant. The attorney for Zimmerman, charged in the February shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, says in a TV interview Thursday that his client's website has raised more than $200,000 ... TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com was launched April 10, as a digital soapbox for Zimmerman to give his side of the story, as well as a fundraising tool to solicit donations to his legal defense fund. Zimmerman used the site, which took major credit cards, to communicate messages to his supporters. But the site was shut down as of this week.
For real? $200k in 3 weeks? There are people out there that had $200k of disposable (and really that's as disposable as disposable comes) income to give this guy? Fuck me.
A few weeks back when I heard about this I said that I may quit the internet if this little venture of his was successful...Now, I'm not going to do that, but I'm debating whether or not George is an internet genius and I was just too stubborn to see it...Like, is that the way to do it, just put up a paypal button and beg you guys to donate? Does that work better than these ads that you guys don't click?
