Gonzalez notes a Brookings paper suggesting "digital firms should be encouraged to add criteria to their search engines that highlight information quality as opposed to mere popularity" -- that is, "high-quality coverage or providing diverse points of view." Dream on, dorks! But though a "Google official" (the one assigned to angry nuts, one imagines) assures Gonzalez they're not planning to do anything like that -- cat videos forever! -- Gonzalez seems unconvinced, and lays out an ominous scenario:
It would be dangerous if Google, Facebook or the other major players were to follow [Brookings'] advice, or if they’re already giving undue weight to liberal opinion... Both Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt are well-known liberals who support President Obama’s key policy initiatives. If they were to let their political proclivities dictate what’s promoted on their platforms we could start slipping back the age of Uncle Walter.In Soviet Obamaland, cat videos you!
Now, other conservatives have asked similarly paranoid questions before -- for example, "Does Google Filter Out Controversial Conservatives From Search Suggestions?" ("Here's a video put together by my brother Tim Carney demonstrating the Google Suggest anti-Buchanan phenomenon. Full disclosure: I worked for Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1996.") But as The Federalist is full of hungry outcast wingnuts looking to make a big splash, I predict that the next time a story conservatives think should be a big deal fails to become one -- like the 26th or 27th rerun of #Benghazi -- you'll see this idea hauled out. Because the failure of the American People to adopt their current top storylines -- for example, that Barack Obama is a dictator -- needs a better excuse than plain ol' media bias anymore. And "because our ideas are batshit crazy" won't do!
(Title inspiration here.)
UPDATE. "So," says JennOfArk in comments, "what they want is a Fairness Doctrine for internet search engines?" Now, now. I bet these guys would really get pissed if someone tried to tinker with pop-up ads for Goldline.
Because the failure of the American People to adopt their current top storylines -- for example, that Barack Obama is a dictator -- needs a better excuse than plain ol' media bias anymore. And "because our ideas are batshit crazy" won't do!
ReplyDeletePretty lousy dictator if'n you ask me. Where's the public exsanguinations?
Whoops, new Heritage headline - OBAMA'S FAILED DICTATORSHIP, MORE PROOF LIBERALS ARE INCAPABLE OF GOVERNMENT, "WE COULD HAVE HAD ROMNEY" SAYS ROVE
Sparks must be writing an opera about Gonzalez:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgakpSoHEiE
I'm not sure what that was other than awesome....
ReplyDeleteThose guys are nearly always awesome.
ReplyDeleteYer tellin' me those hippies at Google can prioritize some lame-stream media web-site over the "Food-stamps President" blog my buddy at the gun-club hosts on geocities?! I knew somethin' was up when their 9/11 Doodle featured some librul city skyline instead of an animated Hilary Clinton devouring the Benghazi consulate like Saturn eating his young. Time to start workin' on ConservaGoogle...
ReplyDelete...well-known liberals who support President Obama’s key policy initiatives
ReplyDeleteWhat, like cutting Social Security and getting the TPP passed?
"The God-damned Obama is throwing us into the briar patch!"
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I think the public exsangunations are mainly in Pakistan and, to some extent, Yemen.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe it was this.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/LpkOs8xPS_8
My response to the conservative implication that the reason no one's reading their crap is because teh Googlez must somehow conspiring to hide the diamonds in the feces pile: "Free market, hippies!"
ReplyDeleteHere an idea: the conservatives can start their own search engine. I'm sure it will be a rousing success, like Conservapedia or Pajamas Media.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw that. "Behind closed doors."
ReplyDeleteThat's telling them!
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I've got a name for it: Bajo Vista.
ReplyDeleteSo what they want is a Fairness Doctrine for internet search engines?
ReplyDeleteIf you'll recall, "Obama wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine" was a conservative hysteria not all that long ago.
I think of it more as an extension of the old "Conservatism can only be failed" saw. Our websites aren't as popular as we'd predicted? People don't cotton to our ideas? Cleary, the internet itself is conspiring against us. There can be no other explanation.
ReplyDelete"digital firms should be encouraged to add criteria to their search
ReplyDeleteengines that highlight information quality as opposed to mere
popularity"
The horror! Quality information! A company that people primarily use to find information making sure that information isn't bullshit! Why, this is just as bad as science classes teaching science, or health insurance companies providing health insurance! Don't they know that conservatism only works if people are forcibly kept stupid and irrational?
Okay, so I listened to and watched the youtube explanation video, and I get the "--I predict" part, but I still think you've got a typo in the first line. Or is this all too meta for me?
ReplyDeleteThe New Contras: Understanding The Left's Grip On Media
ReplyDeleteI was going to ask, "So when does the Right start selling drugs, defying Congress by obtaining weapons, and committing human rights violations?" when I realized they haven't stopped.
Last year I reviewed 59 top results in G News for "immigration". Well over half were biased towards amnesty:
ReplyDeletehttp://24ahead.com/n/11921
If you search G News enough you'll see them occasionally promoting out-of-the-way sources, things like a "Snoquamish County Farmer's Chronicle", but you won't find them promoting a site like mine or others' that shows those source wrong.
For a tangible example, I just searched G News for an immig. poll that was released yesterday. The six results in the top block all help mislead about what the poll actually asked. I discussed how the poll is being used to mislead at my site, but that's not in the G News results.
Obviously, things like that suit some people just fine. They don't want to know how they're being misled and/or they don't want others to know.
it's a shame, too, because your site's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteConservaGoogle
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though. If they think they can beat out Google, let them try. Where's their spirit of free competition?
It's not always worth it to get out of the boat, but this one has some beauties.
ReplyDeleteHe lauds the way modern technology has changed reporting:
One tragic, very well-known example is that of the citizen journalists in Tehran who recorded the murder of the young female demonstrator named Neda at the hands of state security agents, a crime which revealed to many the brutal nature of the Iranian government.
I'm anxiously awaiting a string of links to great scoops by conservative bloggers. Finally, near the end, he refers to "the muck-raking journalism of James O’Keefe and Breitbart."
I think he's got the rakers confused with the creators of said muck. More projection:
It must bother the President no end that he has to contend with the likes of FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Breitbart News, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, James O’Keefe and thousands of independent bloggers too numerous to name. [. . .] Thus the President's evident petulance.
Ooh, James O'Keefe. I bet Obama reads O'Keefe's wikipedia page when he needs a good chuckle. I know I do.
I'm also entertained by this bit:
These trends have commoditized raw news, the end of the business that is as undifferentiated as copper traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. This part of the business now sells at a price that is set by the market, with low margins. The business that now commands a premium is commentary, the differentiated part. When CBO chief Douglas Elmendorf says that Obamacare will “disincentivize work” that is undifferentiated news transmission; when Avik Roy writes on Forbes.com, “Bored with your job? No worries—now you can quit, thanks to the generosity of other taxpayers,” that is differentiated commentary; Roy has added value by interpreting the news event.
Avik Roy's bit of mendacity is Added Value. Andrew Sullivan, we later hear, is a "deep-thinking innovator". But Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! "can only be described as neo-Marxist apologists for Chavez, Castro and the Sandinistas." Spin for me but not for thee!
You might have a point. Why, when I searched for "best living writer," my site didn't turn up in the search results at all! Clearly, bias is the only explanation - it can't be that search engine algorithms determine a site's authority by using easily calculable factors like inbound links and high-quality traffic. Tosh, says I! They're out for us personally.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you don't realize that Google tailors its results to what it determines YOU are interested in. Google results differ from user to user. Evidently even you are not that much interested in your own site.
ReplyDeleteTurns out, if you base your search engine on "facts", it winds up with a liberal bias. ;)
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Until I went to the link, I thought the title was inspired by Christopher Walken's "Trivial Psychic" bit on SNL. "You're going to get a cup of coffee that's too hot. It's going to burn your tongue."
ReplyDeleteIf geniuses are often doomed to labor in obscurity, then you must be quite smart indeed.
ReplyDelete"Does Google Filter Out Controversial Conservatives From Search Suggestions?"
ReplyDeleteIf only. I'd consider having children for the sole purpose of sacrificing them to Sergey Brin to make that day happen.
(j/k, although kittens? Hey...)
Kids these days have forgotten that liberal journalist Walter Cronkite single-handedly** lost the Vietnam War for us, thereby dooming the entire Pacific Rim to communist control, by stabbing LBJ in the back. And boy, could we ever use a man like Lyndon Johnson again. Minus the Civil Rights Act and the War on Poverty, of course.
ReplyDelete**Jane Fonda and John Kerry also each single-handedly lost Vietnam. Liberal perfidy contains multitudes ... which add up to several thousand percent at the very least.
What typo? Conservative genius Mike Gonzalez has apparently just discovered the idea that companies might conceivably use their control over their products to advance their own agendas. Horrors!
ReplyDeleteI'll just leave this right here, featuring one of Bob Dylan's funniest lines, as I have so many times before.
ReplyDeleteWell, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ started to sweat
Figured they wus in my T.V. set
Peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up in the brain
Them Reds caused it!
[snip]
Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge there’s just one man
That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus
I wonder who determines what the "quality" level is.
ReplyDeletecriteria to their search engines that highlight information quality
ReplyDeleteSo the equation of "information quality" with "liberal opinion" is Gonzale' own? OK.
Its not an explanation so much as it is simply a new front in an old war. And its not a war for popular opinion--which you would win by having your ideas be actually popular--its a war to control the images and ideas and issues that the public gets to see and consider. Their goal is frequency of quotation and use, not popularity per se.
ReplyDeleteWhat, so now QUALITY as well as FACTS have a liberal bias?
ReplyDelete"Does Google Filter Out Controversial Conservatives From Search Suggestions?"
ReplyDeleteNO. The good stuff is beamed directly to your fillings.
Oh Roy, these youngsters have no memory. Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Walter Cronkite... Once household names, now mere rumors of days gone by.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with Google or Facebook promoting a liberal agenda? Isn't it their Rand given right to do whatever they want?
ReplyDeletethe likes of FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Breitbart News,
ReplyDeleteGlenn Beck’s The Blaze, Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, The Weekly
Standard, National Review Online, James O’Keefe
So a long list of overtly rightwing advocates proves that those perfidious liberals are planning to politicise the internet? Yes, I can see an element of projection there.
Gonzalez seems to have grasped the key perspective of rightwing rhetoric, the mixture of chest-thumping triumphalism and abject paranoia, in which his side is simultaneously winning the battle against liberalism and under an existential threat. Does he go on to solicit donations from his readership?
Thus the President's evident petulance
ReplyDeleteYou mean petulant like this:
They love this idea, don't they, that little pissants like them affect him, when I'm sure he doesn't give a damn. Frankly, I am quite sure GWB didn't pay any attention to the liberal pundits, either.
Checking my own blog outlet, I see that it leads the results list for "vat-grown godmeat", so I for one am perfectly content with the Goofle search algorithms.
ReplyDeletehis side is simultaneously winning the battle against liberalism and under an existential threat
ReplyDeletePrecisely.
If you want saltpeter you have to dig through a lot of dungheaps.
ReplyDeletei am placing this comment in the center of my conspiracy bulletin board.
ReplyDeleteThe Algorithms is out to get them.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to quote me.
ReplyDeleteIt's true!
ReplyDeleteOuch. Indeed.
ReplyDeleteIf you really want to know what "controversial conservatives" are saying, why use Google at all?
ReplyDeleteMedia Matters is bound to have what you're looking for.
Yahoo News tends to slant to the Right.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they can become the "ConservaGoogle."
Don't forget to quote Aimai but credit it to Churchill.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it does bother the President that he has to put up with the likes of Fox News; why else would he have done the Super Bowl interview with Bill O'Reilly? What he probably wound up thinking, though, is something along the lines of, "Why in the fuck can't I punch this arrogant douchebag in his fucking mouth like all laws of decency and deference would advise and allow?" The fact that O'Reilly got away with being an ass to the President of the United States speaks volumes to what the right wing thinks of the man, and to that man's ability to restrain himself in the face of gross insult.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what you mean. Whenever I search for backwater right-wing fumaroles with weak argumentation "GivesHead24Seven.com" is always in the top results.
ReplyDeleteChurchill? Everyone knows Bill Ayers wrote that.
ReplyDeleteI am willing to bet that Obama has fantasies of the interviews he'll be able to give once he stops being President: "Actually, Bill, I knew I might have to explain this topic to a guy who doesn't even understand how the tides work, so I brought my crayons. And some short words. Are you good with that, you loofah diddler?"
ReplyDeleteUpvoting just for "backwater right-wing fumaroles".
ReplyDeleteFor a group that likes to wank triumphant over the so-called "marketplace of ideas", they sure do want to move those goalposts around a lot, don't they?
ReplyDeleteNow I'm confused; do you mean "Gooſle"?
ReplyDeleteHeck, why should he? Fox News flat-out lied about him repeatedly during 2008 ("Baby Mama", anyone? "Terrorist Fist-Jab?").
ReplyDeleteThey gots nothing, he knows it, they know it, and there's no Ken Starr to save them (Thanks, Newt!)
What's most beautiful is that, more specifically, it is the post wherein you complain about McGravitas' blog outstripping you in Google result for same. The weirdness arc of the universe is long, etc.
ReplyDeleteIf they were to let their political proclivities dictate what’s promoted on their platforms
ReplyDeletethen we'd have to think of an appropriate term for such tyranny. Something like, oh I dunno, "free market". But if the wingnut owner of a pizza chain does it, shut the fuck up.
To get wonky for a minute: The term "quality" in search analytics means something a little different. Generally speaking, content is considered "high quality" if it is a) understandable by a human (complete sentences and the like); b) comprised primarily of original content; and c) was not generated by an automated process. You see, since SEO became a thing, there have been ongoing attempts to manipulate automated algorithms using junk articles that were never meant to be read by human eyes. As a result, the signal:noise ratio over the entire internet has dropped to shit over the last few years. Google claims to have a handle on it, but all that really means is that the spammers and hucksters are getting smarter. I'll go check the Brookings thing, but my suspicion is that they were talking about efforts to reduce noise, rather than any attempt to remove content that's considered crap.
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining that.
ReplyDeleteIf twitchy is any indication, the attempt should be...entertaining.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure it counts as "obscurity" when Mr. Ahead continues to stop by every blog on the Internet at intervals to provide links to himself. He's been doing this for years; if no one's reading the blog, it's not because they've never been made aware of it.
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeletedidn't you use to spread your brand of crazy and disinformation at liberal sites as Lonely Conservative a decade ago? What happened to you? Loony bin? Prison? FEMA camp? Anyway I look forward to having your property confiscated, your citizenship revoked and you being exchanged for a mexican, mwuhahah!
Not Hope of course, it's internal to the human beast.
ReplyDeleteIt's the .de version.
ReplyDeleteraw news
ReplyDeleteI think the more common term for that is "rumor."
Zuckerberg and Schmidt are liberals? Google is now officially evil, and Zuckerberg has been lending credence to a lot of right-wing claptrap on education, the 1%, etc. And, IIRC, Zuckerberg threw a fundraiser for Mr. Bridge Troll himself, Chris Christie.
ReplyDeleteI'm loathing the arrival of the day when some snake-handling yahoo at The Daily Cholera or some such declares David Koch a liberal because he gives money to the ballet. It will be the definitive sign that, as a nation, we've slipped, fallen and can't get up again.
I don't get it. Whenever I google "Santorum" it works perfectly.
ReplyDeleteNo one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
ReplyDeleteI kinda like Fapster.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Roy. I LOL at the "…cat videos you" line. Needed it. Always like your columns and posts.
ReplyDelete"Au contraire", as the man said, in the Bay of Biscay, when asked whether he had dined.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Amit:
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Satch
"Highlight information quality as opposed to mere popularity?" Wouldn't that do in Jenny McCarthy's anti vaxx business as well as Sex and Religion Tips from the Duck Dynasty Pere?
ReplyDeleteAs a blog whore, he can't hold a candle to jurassicpork.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, and probably more correctly, they are losing the battle against liberalism and not under an existential threat. But I guess that would just make them feel sad, if they knew.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me sad.
ReplyDeleteYou're surprised?
ReplyDeleteThis should be said in the voice of Mr. Kholi from Bride and Prejudice.
ReplyDeleteWho is this Manny Cheism whom I keep hearing about?
ReplyDeleteDear Right Wing WhingeBaggers,
ReplyDeleteIs New! Media not carrying the freight for you and your “facts.”? Is New! Media cupping your balls with frigid digits instead of a warm washcloth? Is
New! Media having trouble disseminating the right wing Facts ReSorter from prominent conservative thinkers, linkers, shakers and bowel movers? Is New! Media an enemy and not a friend?
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The Brethren don't really think ahead do they?
ReplyDeleteI'd have though that the last thing they'd want is for more of their gibberese ravings having a broader public spotlight shone upon them.
Did they learn nothing from their "tea party" nonsense? Sure it must have felt nice for a while, but ultimately they were basking in the warming glow of their own house on fire, while the American people stared, mouths agape, at their grotesque, bone-deep weirdness.
.
Dear Right Wing WhingeBaggers
ReplyDeleteIs New! Media not carrying the freight for you and your “facts.”? Is New! Media cupping your balls with frigid digits instead of a warm washcloth? Is
New! Media having trouble disseminating the right wing Facts ReSorter from prominent conservative thinkers, linkers, shakers and bowel movers? Is New! Media an enemy and not a friend?
I, keta, have a wonderful suggestion on how you flip that chasm into an orgasm. How you can turn that frown upside down. How you can
ensure New! Media heralds all the bestest and the brightless of stalwart conservative ideas and ideologies. Yes, I, keta, can help you overcome the liberal bias in all forms of Media, especially the New! Media floating on innertubes down the infomation superseaway.
This is a goal worth pursuing! What price would you pay to see it happen? How many times would you frack your sister to learn how to conquer New! Media? How many times would you open your fundament in an effort to be the fundamental voice of New! Media? How much, I ask, how much to become the most overstuffed, filled-to-bursting teeny car in the New! Media Big Tent?
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Hey, genius, like most blog/commenting software these days Disqus automatically adds rel=nofollow to any links you post on here. I imagine you think that posting these whiny screeds are helping your google rankings because they link back to your site. They are not.
ReplyDeleteYou also clearly have no fucking clue how "G News" works. HINT: there aren't a bunch of people sitting there deciding what appears on the front page. There's no "they're" there.
It's a computer algorithm. If you think a computer algorithm can have a political bias against "immig reform" you're a fucking loon. Given how difficult natural language processing is, your word salad writing style is surely not doing you any favors in the content analysis department.
Exactly what fucking edition of Google News were you expecting to end up on, anyway? Since you don't write in grammatically correct English, and there isn't a "Teabonics" edition of "G News", what the hell were you expecting?
"we've slipped, fallen and can't get up again."
ReplyDeleteRight on our own front lawn, but the neighbors are too afraid of the grouchy old man with all the guns, to ever tread on that fiercely guarded patch of cynodon dactylon.
"It must bother the President no end that he has to contend with the likes of... [some rightwing arseholes on the internet]"
ReplyDeleteHe's the President of the United States of America. Why would he be bothered at all, let alone "no end".
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"A GNAT settled on the horn of a Bull, and sat there a long time. Just as he was about to fly off, he made a buzzing noise, and inquired of the Bull if he would like him to go. The Bull replied, "I did not know you had come, and I shall not miss you when you go away." -Aesop
That's an excellent point - Lincoln to Grant, Appomattox, 1954
ReplyDeleteVista Del Nada
ReplyDeleteBut when we get behind ... closed ... doors ....
ReplyDeleteAnd he lets the drones ... rain ... down ...
Then he makes me glad I'm American...
Shit, I actually thought they meant Walter Duranty, which would at least have the essence of the truth.
ReplyDeleteDUNCAN!
ReplyDeleteWas it during the aftermath of the '08 election when they thought that Twitter was going to let them rule the intertoobs and hence the entire universe?
ReplyDeleteMalkin, at least, must have made a bundle from Twitchy by selling it before anyone realized it couldn't be monetized.
ReplyDeleteTheir unskewed polls were so great back in 2012, can you imagine how great their unskewed search engines would be?
ReplyDeleteOr Duck Hunting tips from the Sex Pistols or Bad Religion.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think you guys were for affirmative action.
ReplyDeleteConservapedia fills that niche < ahref="http://www.conservapedia.com/Overrated_Sports_Stars"> quite nicely. It's my go-to site when I need a good belly laugh.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorrily to inform you Mister Amit has died amid my country of Nigeria. But I have for you the good newses that I am representing his estate at the passionate request of his esteemed widow who has desperate needs for transferring $12 million in U.S. dollars to an American bank this week or poverty will infest all of her children. She has written me a homely letter of your love for Mister Amit and your many fine deeds upon her heart you have worked with your character. Given your high reputation for total Christianity, may I count on you please to assist in this transferring of family asserts knowing you will not ask for more than a $50,000 fee for your many toils in the day we designate?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, I have to content myself with "unapologetic ass man"... SIGH!
ReplyDeleteIt must bother the President to no end that he has
ReplyDelete...the option of turning off the cable and getting a sneak preview of someone's chestal region.
It's a pity they took down the "Pacific Northwest tree octopus" entry.
ReplyDeleteHis ass never apologizes.
ReplyDeleteHe is the baldest man in the world.
Looks like they took down the Edroso entry, too. People probably didn't find it believable.
ReplyDeleteflip that chasm into an orgasm.
ReplyDeleteUmmm. You are a perfect human being. Srsly.
Oh man, I had not considered how awesome John Lydon could be on American TV. Sell out all you want, Johnny Rotten!
ReplyDelete( I feel I should credit the real Amit, wherever he may be, or not be. That stuff was cutted&pasted from an actual email. I changed only the web address. In other words, I'm not that fucking clever. )
ReplyDeleteAlgor...
ReplyDeleteNeed I say more?
He DID invent the intertewbs.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit! Al Gore is
ReplyDeleteMuḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī! He's a time traveller!
Fapster it is!
ReplyDeleteThe real problem conservatives have with the internet is that it is "bottom up", with users determining what is most commonly seen. There is no equivalent (yet) of a Clear Channel ensuring dominance (in how many markets is Rush Limbaugh on multiple stations?). Conservatives don't like to acknowledge that they dominate a "top down" media solely by virtue of a stacked deck- even their political relevance is due solely to a stacked deck. Acknowledging that they are a movement consisting of a mere 27% of the population would destroy them.
ReplyDeletetriumph-swimmers
ReplyDeleteNight-Sea Journey?
When a Jung man's fancy turns to thoughts of love.
ReplyDeleteI could totally go for Duck Hunting tips from the sex pistols.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange how the Right see themselves.
ReplyDeleteSometimes they DO seem to acknowledge that they are a mere 27%. I've heard Rush whine about being outnumbered, and we all know how the Right like to feel persecuted, beset on all sides by multiculturalism, a Liberal media, and foreign influences. The Christian Right has a special reason to feel persecuted, because Jesus said that they will always be.
On the other hand, these same people on the Right will turn around and claim that we live in some kind of a Center-Right country, and that most people believe the way they do, even if those people don't want to admit it.
The Right must simultaneously believe that they are the Persecuted Few, AND the Moral Majority.
That's quite a trick. I'm glad I don't have to perform those kind of mental gymnastics to preserve MY identity.
In the kingdom of the bald, the man with no eyebrows is king.
ReplyDeleteHe's been doing the same shit for way longer than 10 years. I know I remember him from earlier blogs, maybe even from Usenet-- the name would change from time to time but it always had the same spelled-out "DotCom" at the end, and the style is instantly recognizable.
ReplyDeleteBut for some reason he never developed a large audience who would boost his visibility by linking to him. That reason being, of course, GOOGLE CONSPIRACY.
For Bob Casale (R.I.P.)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc
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The search term that brings the most people to my pretty much defunct shitty little blog has to do with sisters sucking toes. Given that there's not one single post on the blog in which sisters suck toes, I think it's clear that Google is trying to smear me.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, I think Google is trying to tell you something. Something…wonderful.
ReplyDeleteIn the kingdom of the bald, the man with no eyebrows is king needs to practice the proper technique for lighting his barbeque.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that. It hosts columns by Brent Bozell, Pat Buchanan, Mona Charen, etc and that crowd makes up the bulk of its opinion section.
ReplyDeleteIt's also something of an eyesore, and not just because of them.
Shaft!
ReplyDeleteYo' damn right.
Damn, paleotectonics. You sure know how to get me to follow a link. Do you think Mr. 24ahead.com could afford your services?
ReplyDeleteNot for the first time, I find myself wondering whether the originators of Yahoo were aware of the Swiftian associations.
ReplyDeleteAh, so that's what happens to all those cute kittens once the YouTube videos have been posted.
ReplyDeleteMLK also single-handedly lost Vietnam, but since he became a conservative 25 years or so after he died, all is forgiven.
ReplyDeleteYes, Yang and Filo have publicly stated that's where they got it.
ReplyDeleteIt always seems sensationalistic and clickbaity to me. I didn't even realize it had an opinion section.
ReplyDeleteOne of my conservative co-workers will sometimes come in with some Rightwing talking point, and I've asked, "Did you hear that on the talk radio?"
ReplyDeleteHe says, "No, I didn't hear it; I READ it on my Yahoo page."
That never occurred to me!
ReplyDeleteIt's been awhile since I've read Gulliver's Travels, and I forgot all about the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos.
If they got their wish their sites would drop off Google search altogether . :)
ReplyDeleteMy comment was about Google News. That uses a different algorithm than regular G searching.
ReplyDeleteYou also aren't smart enough to realize the difference between facts and opinion.
If all you did was search G News for the Gallup poll and then click on the Politico piece, you would have been misled. G News isn't offering sources that show how Politico is misleading about that poll.
Apparently that's the way you like it.
My comment was about Google News. That uses a different algorithm than regular G searching.
ReplyDeleteI'm also quite familiar with how regular G works, and besides being admitted to G News there's nothing I can do to get into it.
Are all Ray's readers as dumb as "Red_cted" and "D Johnston"?
How so exactly? Name some specific thing I've written that you object to, and then present a valid, logical argument either here or on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't do that, then...
Can you name some specific thing I've written that you object to, and then present a valid, logical argument either here or on Twitter?
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
I don't run a "blog".
ReplyDeleteAre personal smears all you got? Can you name some specific thing I've written that you object to, and then present a valid, logical argument either here or on Twitter?
Good luck.
1. I know how Disqus works, and I've written about it.
ReplyDelete2. Some things in various G searches are hand-edited (i.e., not just coming from code G wrote).
3. The algorithm G News uses favors sources that tend to mislead about immig. and push their own agenda. For instance, an NYT article that misleads about immig. would tend to appear higher in G News than whatever few dissenting voices they've allowed into G News. I search G News for immig. daily, and I don't think I've ever seen a vDare link in the main results for "immig". vDare (and I) tend to show NYT pieces wrong, but the average G News user will never find out how those NYT pieces are wrong. Imagine that an Obamacare G News search returned only Fox results.
Indeed. I'm all those hobgoblins in your wee mind.
ReplyDelete"Smears"? What are you talking about? I don't know a thing about you personally; all I know is that you've had a habit for a very long time of promoting your [website/blog/whatever you want to call it] by randomly posting links in the comments of other people's sites that you otherwise make no contribution to in any way. You don't engage with what anyone else is saying— unless, like now, it's about you. You've given no one any reason to take you seriously, but if they do feel like discussing your writing, they can certainly do it on your site.
ReplyDeleteThey should have no need for saltpeter, what with all those bags of salted dicks sitting around.
ReplyDeleteApparantly Google just doesn't consider your sucky blog to be news. Sorry Bevis.
ReplyDeleteDex said "hilarious" not "objectionable."
ReplyDeleteIf one were silly enough to quiz Obama on any of these people/sites he'd no doubt answer ... who?
ReplyDeleteTheir ultra-inflated sense of self-importance is a source of constant amusement. To those in power they are either disposable nameless red ensigns or complete unknowns.
Mr. 24ahead.com would likely have to cut back on his Koch sucking to do so
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