Google Commemorates Columbus Day With Pic of Paddington Bear
As Americans celebrate Columbus Day, one of our nation's largest companies, Google, is commememorating the occasion by displaying a picture of the Paddington Bear at its website.I kid you not.I guess the good folks at Google feel the 50th anniversary of the creation of this fictional character is more important than the 516th anniversary of Columbus landing in the Americas (via Wikipedia, h/t…
Bailout's '$700 Billion' Cost Is a Contrived Wild Guess; Media Mostly
As I write this on Monday afternoon, the People's House has rejected "the $700 billion bailout." You won't believe, unless you're a very experienced cynic, where that $700 billion figure came from. The answer appears to be "out of nowhere." With no basis. I'm not kidding. Here's the evidence, carried six whole days ago at Forbes (HT LAT's Top of the Ticket Blog via BizzyBlog commenter Dan Scott…
Missouri Sheriffs' and Prosecutors' Obama 'Truth Squad' Getting Old Me
What if I told you that sheriffs and prosecutors in, say, Indiana, had formed "truth squads" and "subtly" threatened prosecutions of critics of John McCain? Does anyone think that the New York Times, Washington Post and Old Media in general wouldn't be putting the news on the front page, even with the bailout-apalooza going on in Washington? Well, there is a "truth squad." It's in Missouri. It…
PBS Ombudsman Raps Anti-Palin Wisecrack
On PBS's Web site today, ombudsman Michael Getler writes of complaints over an incident during last Sunday's pledge drive. He describes the cheap shot taken by actor Mike Farrell against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin:According to Joseph Campbell, vice president of fundraising programs, here's what happened:
CNN's Chetry: 'Please Tell Me It's Not Lipstick Again
On CNN's American Morning today, White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported on Barack Obama's campaigning in Virginia. Afterwards, anchor Kiran Chetry had a question:CHETRY: All right. And Suzanne, what's on tap for the campaign today? And please tell me it's not lipstick again.MALVEAUX: Let's hope not. He's going to be in Norfolk, Virginia. That is in southeast Virginia, and it's home…
Media Mostly MIA on Obama's 'America No Longer What It Once Was' Downe
This doesn't qualify as any kind of surprise, but it should be noted nonetheless. Thursday, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama gave a stunningly downbeat assessment of the nation's overall situation in a response to a seven year-old girl who asked him why he is running for president. Obama's media water-carriers have virtually ignored his very telling response, one that is reminiscent…
Ignored Economic News of the Week: YTD Surplus with Free-Trade Countri
Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, while waffling, has wanted to appear to many of his constituents as being opposed to free trade agreements, or at least wanting to renegotiate the terms of many of them. On Wednesday, the Department of Commerce issued a press release, the kind of thing you would hope business journalists get in their e-mail boxes. But I found no coverage of this…
Google Redux: Amer. Spectator 'Site May Harm Your Computer
The good folks at Google are at it again, for if you do a web search for the conservative magazine "The American Spectator," a disclaimer says:The American SpectatorThis site may harm your computer.Features opinions, reviews, and an interactive section, as well as archives of the monthly.www.spectator.org/ - Similar pages - Note thisClick on "The American Spectator" link, and a message reads (h/t…
Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform
**UPDATE** BELOW FOLD
It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is…
Google Puts 'Gay' Bush-Blair Picture Next to Same-sex Marriage Headlin
Google News early Sunday morning, at its "Top Stories" front page, posted a suggestive Photoshopped picture of President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair next to a headline about the California Supreme Court's recent ruling on same-sex marriages.In the picture, Bush and a shirtless Blair are cuddling underneath an American flag.Accident? Something to do with Google's…
TWC’s Cullen Advocates Using Weather.com, Google Earth to Promote Gl
The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen says one of the steps to fight global warming is using images to affect people's outlook. At the "Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge" forum held at Harvard University in Boston, Mass. on April 30, Cullen suggested using Weather.com and Google Earth to add visual elements to promote the cause. "[I] split my time between The Weather Channel and…
The Greening Of The Internet
Today is Earth Day, and you don't have to look any further than the home pages of the top Internet companies to see it. Green is the politically correct color of choice for firms that want to score cheap environmental points online.The bias is most blatant at Google and its video-sharing subsidiary, YouTube. Google's logo has gone completely green, and the television screen within YouTube's logo…
Obama Tech Advisor Introduces Video of Gay, Singing Jesus Who Gets Hit
Video Below the Fold
Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of an anti-Christian video recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The video introduced at a Google Author series seminar shows Jesus singing the Gloria Gaynor tune "I Will Survive" in a very effeminate, theatrical way. As the song ramps up, Jesus throws off his…
