WaPo Humorist Twists Google to Imply Mothers Don't Want Their Daughter to Be Sarah Palin

May 31st, 2010 6:46 AM

In his Washington Post Magazine humor column on Sunday, Gene Weingarten worked in his anti-Sarah Palin bias. The subject was his concept of the "Googlenope," phrases that return no hits when Googled between quotation marks. He could find Google results for "I want my daughter to be like the puddingcup girl" or "I want my daughter to be like Page Fiedorowicz," but no one had written "I want my daughter to be like Sarah Palin."

That's not in Google, between quotation marks. But guess what? Neither is "I want my daughter to be like Hillary Clinton."  Neither is "I want my daughter to be like Michelle Obama."

Weingarten's implied humor contained other subtly misleading cues. He was amused to find a Google result for the term "Obama is an evil race-enslaving robot." But that's not a hard-breathing right-winger. It's the leftist website Salon.com mocking conservative writer Amity Shlaes.