Welcome to this week's episode of Google-Bomb a conservative bastard!
In previous weeks, you might recall we have caused no end of embarrassment to Republican shills who have demonstrated hypocrisy of a ridiculous nature by shining the bright light of Google upon their crimes.
First, we went after Bill O'Reilly, who is a 'terrorist sympathizer'. That Google-Bomb took just three days to complete.
Next, we took aim at Bob Woodward, who is a "White House Shill'. That took a little longer to pay off, due mainly to the intense competition for that title, but if you look at Google right now and type 'white house shill' into the search box, you'll find Woodward now tops Jeff Gannon AND Armstrong Williams for the number one spot. Bravo, Booby.
So who receives the Google-Bomb o'public relations death this week?
Methinks it's time for the Kitten Killer to get his due.
How does a Google-Bomb work?
It's pretty simple. The way Google indexes websites, they look at all the links and the words used in that link to figure out what a website actually consists of. For example, when thousands of people linked to George W. Bush's White house bio page with the words "
miserable failure", Google's system decided that said site must be home to the biggest
miserable failure in the world. Now, any time you search for that term, you get sent to Dubya's homepage.
In order to execute a Google-Bomb, all you need is to put a link in your websites, blogs, signatures, messageboard posts, dKos comments - anywhere it can be listed and indexed by Google.
Why bother with a Google-Bomb?
Well, it's true, a Google-Bomb has never changed the world, but it is one simple gut punch in a volley of many that can be used to point out the hypocrisy of those people who influence public policy. When Bill O'Reilly becomes known as a 'terrorist sympathizer', that's got to be embarassing to him, and if we perform the Google-Bomb properly, it will send traffic to the place where O'Reilly's hypocrisy is laid to bare, so more people learn about his sins.
So why Google-Bomb Bill Frist?
Mostly because he's part of the Neocon cabal that has sold America to the extreme religious right, corporate criminals, and tax-avoiding creeps like Grover Norquist. That and he seems to be gearing up for a run at President in 2008, so the time is as good as ever to ensure that his past crimes are known.
And Bill Frist has some nasty past crimes.
No, we're not talking about the time he 'diagnosed' Terri Schiavo as being non-vegetative from ten minutes of video footage shot a thousand miles away. Nor are we talking about such heinous crimes against humanity as the Credit Card Slavery Bill, which ensures the general public can have their homes taken away from them if they get cancer and can't pay their MBNA bills.
No, we're going to talk about Bill Frist's most deivious crime of all - the days when he used to adopt kittens from SPCA shelters and slaughter them for medical experiments.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is being asked by an animal advocacy group to support legislation for better animal treatment to make up for fraudulently adopting cats from animal shelters then experimenting on and killing them while he was a medical student.
A Dec. 31 letter from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked Frist to make amends by pressing for reforms that would replace old-style tests where animals are subjected to painful and sometimes deadly procedures with newer, more humane approaches. They also requested that he help fund research to find non-animal alternatives.
Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.
The newly elected leader of the Senate Republicans revealed the practice in his book "Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death Dramas of the New Medicine."
"It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do," Frist wrote, in a passage quoted by The Boston Globe. On Tuesday, Frist's press aide, Nick Smith, told United Press International that "Senator Frist denounces the activities that he did while he was in medical school -- as he has done before." link: UPI
You can also see old clips from The Daily Show discussing the issue at Lisa Rein's Radar, which are well worth a look. There's no question as to whether or not this is real - Frist has admitted to performing these heinous acts, and was even quoted as saying he was "a little crazy back then."
Maybe he wishes he'd never done it. Maybe he understands it was wrong. Maybe he'd never do it again. But none of that matters. What matters is that we need to ensure he'll never be President of the United States. It's Google-Bomb time.
So how do I Google-Bomb Bill Frist?
Simply cut and paste the following code into any website, blog or message post you can manage:
<a href="http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20021231-071056-3546r">Bill Frist</a> is a <a href="http://frist.senate.gov">kitten killer</a>.
That's all you have to do. If we can get enough people to do this on enough websites, we should be able to make it so that anyone searching for 'Bill Frist' on Google will see his 'kitten killer' past before they see anything else.
And his Presidential ambitions will be long over before they even kicked in.
Godspeed, fellow Google-Bombers. Unleash heck.