Google Refuses Conservative Ad, Similar to Liberal Ad (But Wait..Did CNS Steal An FR Exclusive?)

GOP USA ^ | 5-4-05 | Jeff Johnson

[My Favorite Headache]

I was online earlier and saw this exact story broken by a Freeper who did their own research. Did GOP USA and CNS steal the FR story and call it their own?

[jexus]

It has been reported here and other places that Google gave 100 per cent of its political campaign funds to democrats. Not a single penny for a republican in the last election cycle.

[Anti-Bubba182]

GOOGLE's Anti-Conservative Agenda

I pinged the poster. Usually it is good news if a story like that gets spread around.

[SquirrelKing]

Big deal.

[michaelt]

Little Green Footballs had an entry on this story yesterday too, so I'm not sure if it's an FR exclusive: Link

[Publius6961]

Google Refuses Conservative Ad, Similar Identical to Liberal Ad

There.
I fixed it.

[bgsugar]

If Google is now public . . . time for conservative poltically conscious investors to dump their stock and make the liberals suffer some pain.

[FreeAtlanta]

freepers posted these three alternative search sites, ealier.

http://clusty.com/

http://dogpile.com./

http://www.icerocket.com/

[FreeAtlanta]

I heard the insiders at google are dumping their stock, anyway. They know that their business has very short term "on top" companies and their stock will be halved, then quartered, then eighted in a few months or years. Search engine stock (read Yahoo) is a poor long term investment, and a risky short term one.

Not a lot safer than playing the lottery.

[kevinm13]

Google is about as liberal as cBS. Look at the news pages and the wording of the headlines they use on each story. Slanted far left if possible.

[LibertarianInExile]

Icerocket is Mark Cuban's site. Isn't he a big Rat donor? He ponied up a grand for Zoe Lofgren!

Clusty is a Vivismo spinoff which is owned by Carnegie-Mellon University. I don't know what to think about that. I figure it's probably better than Mark Cuban.

I do know Dogpile's donations to candidates ran about 30-70 R-D when I checked opensecrets.com, and it was the best of the bunch. Maybe I'll use Clusty. I sure won't be using IceRocket or Google.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

I got an e-mail from Right March the night before the story broke in GOPUSA. I suspect they (Right March) submitted it to GOPUSA because it was identical to the e-mail.

[gidget7]

Do any of those search engines contain spyware?

[Cicero]

Actually, Google does seem to want to preserve its reputation. Unless there has been some hanky-panky, they took down the Democrat ads after their bias was pointed out to them. So the whole ploy worked out very favorably in the end.

Google has a reputation for honesty in the Spyware area, unlike all the previous search toolbars. Even though the executives may be leftists, I think Google can be kept reasonably honest if people keep after them.

The same goes for their proposal to weigh old-line news organizations more heavily than blogs. If enough people complain, they will probably drop that proposal, because it would end up wrecking their reputation.

[the invisib1e hand]

google this, google.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Asked about the nearly identical ads, Mayzel said, "Both ads were taken down. Any assertion to the contrary is false."

Typical liberal half-truth! Yes, both ads were taken down. But only after it was made public that Google allowed an anti-Republican ad but did not allow an anti-democrat ad. Then, and only then, were the anti-Delay ads pulled.

[the invisib1e hand]

they took down the Democrat ads after their bias was pointed out to them.

Oh, puhleeze, man! You mean after their bias was exposed, laid bare for the world to see and make up its own mind about.

[gidget7]

Good Point, and will do!

[Cicero]

Google is free of spyware. It gives you the option, when you install, to avoid installing features that report your web use back to them.

Or you can install all the features, which I do, and then go into Options and clear the two check boxes under Page Information, which are the features that return information to Google. I don't care if Google knows what pages I visit, but sending the information slightly slows your browser.