The police did act stupidly in the Henry Gates incident, by the way. Obama was absolutely right.
Becks’s statement that Onbama has a “deep seated hatred for white people” was completely baseless and asinine, especially since Obama himself is just as white as he is black, and his white family was the closest and most important to him growing up. Any perception that Obama hates white people stems only from the entrenched negrophobia of the perceiver, not from any actions or words by Obama.
I’ve been wondering: when does Mr. Beck think we lost our honor, exactly, and why? Who did it? Where was it lost? Can we get that honor back, or do we have to make some new honor?
This is not the first time Google abused its near monopoly power for political purposes. Google maintains plausible deniability by making minor “mistakes” (sending Glenn Beck’s followers to the wrong place, turning Pat Buchanan into a unperson in the Prompts for awhile, and so forth). Misplacing the Lincoln Memorial is, of course, not a mistake, it’s, at best, a prank. I don’t know whether these dirty tricks are caused merely by individuals at Google abusing their authority, or whether Google, normally a most methodical company, is testing what it can get away with politically.
If it’s the former, has anyone at Google ever been punished for these political dirty tricks? I’ve never heard any follow up to the Pat Buchanan unpersonization, no apology, no press release, nobody reprimanded. So, it may well go down in company annals as a successful little experiment in what Google can get away with by picking on the unfashionable. My personal guess is that Google will be able to get away with manipulating its data for political purposes as long as its masks its manipulations as mistakes that can be “fixed” instantly when the heat gets too intense. Google is too powerful and too scary for most media figures to question publicly.
That’s the only option I can think of. If their ad clicks go down due to providing an unreliable product, they don’t make as much money. Have you any better ideas?
Again, Beck is first and foremost a grade-A ass clown. If bullshit were currency this guy would be Scrooge McDuck. As it stands, though, he’s simply filthy rich.
There is no break between citizens and the govt. The citizens have the choice between electing people that lie to them and and those that tell the truth and they vote for the liars. They want politicians to lie to them because they don’t want to face the truth that we have a crappy healthcare system, we have a huge gap between revenue and spending that can not be solved by cutting taxes, and that we are not living up to our ideals as a country. This isn’t North Korea where the govt controls the media. The facts are out there for anyone to see, but people just want to ignore them.