Posted by
Icarus on Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:11:46 PM
There wasn't much sleep last night after getting some mixed news on the job front. I dragged myself out of bed at 6:30 this morning and spent a few moments listening to the YouTube clips of Ezra Levants interrogation by the Canadian
Liberal Fascists Committee "Human Rights Commission". Recall how meticulously German National Socialists were in documenting and recording everything they did, in contrast to Soviet Communists. Films and records can be found for just about anything that occured in Germany during that little mustached fellow's rise to and abuse of power. The Canadian government seems to be following the same track of meticulously recording every abuse of human rights it engages in. Case in point (an aside watch the female
commissar's commissioner's reactions during Mr. Levant's opening statement - also be sure to watch the other clips from the interrogation, it is quite an educational experience):
The real purpose of this post is to point out what I saw on my iGoogle homepage this morning. Here is a screen shot:
After reading that justice has finally been done and OJ Simpson was finally found guilty (unfortunately it wasn't for the slaughtering his ex-wife and her friend and he may only serve as little as 7 years, less if they include time already served), I noticed a link to the New York Times, titled "The Joe Biden Show", in iGoogle "Top Stories" box in the lower left hand corner. Here's the detail:
I clicked it just to see what this "news story" was about. In point of fact, it isn't a new story at all. It is an
Opinion piece by Charles M. Blow. Let's take a look at what someone at Google considers to be news:
"I expected Sarah Palin to perform well in Thursday’s debate, so I
wanted to watch it with the most conservative crowd I could find. (In
truth, after her horrendous performance with Katie Couric, anything
short of her head spinning around and spewing vomit would have been
considered an improvement.)"
I'm sure he "expected" her to perform well. The Exorcist reference makes his open-minded-ness on this debate perfectly clear. He goes on with:
"I went to the unlikely Jake’s Saloon in Chelsea in Manhattan where the
New York Young Republican Club was gathering to watch (on Fox)."
"Unlikely"? Why? I know trying to find a conservative establishment in Manhattan is like to trying to find a free speech advocate on a Canadian Human Rights Commission, but what exactly made it "unlikely"? Was it the fact that it actually let Republicans in? Or was it that it had Fox News on its TVs? Come on, Mr. Blow. Inquiring minds want to know.
"Palin launched into her charm offensive — winking, smiling, dodging
questions and speaking in her signature Sarah-phonics , a mash up of
sentence fragments and colloquialisms glued together with misplaced
also’s and there’s — gibberish really. Everyone in the bar lapped it
up. It was The Sarah Palin Show."
Nice to see what, exactly, Mr. Blow was expecting when he entered Chelsea's: "gibberish really".
"As it became clear that she
wasn’t going to implode, I started to see the debate instead as The Joe
Biden Show. And, it was good.
Through the booing and hissing, I
saw a strong, authoritative, confident and sensitive candidate emerge.
On the whole, he came across as intelligent and relatable; a real
person. That’s a quality that often eludes Barack Obama."
And who, again, is at the top of the Democrat ticket? Ah, yes, a guy who "often" is not "intelligent and relatable, a real person". Good to know that Democrats have their priorities straight.
"In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 32 percent of Democrats, 38
percent of independents and 41 percent of Republicans said they didn’t
know or had no answer when asked to say what they most liked about
Biden."
You don't suppose, Mr. Blow, that those numbers could result from the fact that there isn't much to like about Senator-for-life Biden? Naah.
The real purpose of this post is to show what some liberals at Google consider news. I wonder if I'll ever see this linked in the "Top Stories" section of my iGoogle home page: "
A Conservative Revival?" Let's just say, I'm not holding my breath.
UPDATE:
A few moments after I got the screenshot of the Democrat Times of New York Op-Ed appearing in Google's Top Stories section, someone at Google changed it. This is what it looked like not less the 30 minutes after I got the images above:
I didn't check the McCain - Obama story to see if it was legit news. The fact that's linked to the Democrat Times of Los Angeles tells me that even if it is not another Op-Ed, it will be just as biased against the Republican nominee.