Welcome to this week's episode of Google-Bomb a conservative bastard! This is number 4 on the list of recent anti-right Google-Bombs, and if we can make it stick, it'll be a delightful victory for anyone who despises cult leaders, hypocrisy, fake Christians, corruption, shilldom, and extreme right wing nutjobs getting an audience with the President whenever they so choose.
In previous weeks, you might recall we have caused no end of embarrassment to Republican shills by shining the bright light of Google upon their crimes. These include:
Week 1: Bill O'Reilly is a terrorist sympathizer.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 3 days.
Current position: #1
Week 2: Bob Woodward is a White House Shill.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 5 days
Current position: #1
Week 3: Bill Frist is a kitten killer.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 7 days
Current position: #8.
So who is up for this week's Google-Bombing? Heck, let's go after the entire Bush Family and let the world know that they're MOONIES!
How does a Google-Bomb work?
It's pretty simple. The way Google indexes websites, they look at all the links on a page, and the words used in those links, 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 Dubya's homepage as the first result.
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 - with the phrase you want associated with that person.
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.
Added to which, if someone has something they'd rather hide, like George H.W. Bush taking millions of dollars to be a front man for a crazy psychotic cult leader who thinks he's God, a Google-Bomb can serve as a means for getting that info front and center.
So why Google-Bomb the Bush Family?
Because the Reverend Moon, who has for years called himself the Messiah and pumped billions of dollars into extreme right wing crusading, now regularly lunches with the President and his family. This utter wackjob is paying out a boatload of money to keep his boys in positions of power, and we're not being told about it. It's secret. Thus, it should be exposed.
Why are George Bush's father, mother, and brother shilling for a cult leader who was not only once in a US prison, but has long been called one of the most dangerous people in the world?
Why has this cult leader, who has been linked to North Korea, the Yakuza, and worse, got access to the US President? And why does he lose $100 million every year with his Washington Times newspaper, a newspaper that consistently pushes the Bush administration policy as the gospel, if not to influence public opinion with propaganda dressed up as news?
Moon's followers gushed that Bush had saved the day, as he stepped before about 900 Moon guests at the Sheraton Hotel. "Mr. Bush's presence as keynote speaker gave the event invaluable prestige," wrote the Unification News. "Father [Moon] and Mother [Mrs. Moon] sat with several of the True Children [Moon's offspring] just a few feet from the podium."
Bush lavished praise on Moon and his journalistic enterprises. "I want to salute Reverend Moon, who is the founder of The Washington Times and also of Tiempos del Mundo," Bush declared. "A lot of my friends in South America don't know about The Washington Times, but it is an independent voice. The editors of The Washington Times tell me that never once has the man with the vision interfered with the running of the paper, a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C. I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing" in Latin America.
Bush then held up the colorful new newspaper and complimented several articles, including one flattering piece about Barbara Bush. Bush's speech was so effusive that it surprised even Moon's followers.
"Once again, heaven turned a disappointment into a victory," the Unification News exulted. "Everyone was delighted to hear his compliments. We knew he would give an appropriate and 'nice' speech, but praise in Father's presence was more than we expected. ... It was vindication. We could just hear a sigh of relief from Heaven."
Bush's endorsement of The Washington Times' editorial independence also was not truthful. Almost since it opened in 1982, a string of senior editors and correspondents have resigned, citing the manipulation of the news by Moon and his subordinates. The first editor, James Whelan, resigned in 1984, confessing that he had "blood on his hands" for helping the church achieve greater legitimacy.
[...] After the event, Menem told reporters from La Nacion that Bush had claimed privately to be only a mercenary who did not really know Moon. "Bush told me he came and charged money to do it," Menem said. [Nov. 26, 1996]. But Bush was not telling Menem the whole story. By last fall, Bush and Moon had been working in political tandem for at least a decade and a half. The ex-president also had been moonlighting as a front man for Moon for more than a year.
In September 1995, Bush and his wife, Barbara, gave six speeches in Asia for the Women's Federation for World Peace, a group led by Moon's wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. In one speech on Sept. 14 to 50,000 Moon supporters in Tokyo, Bush insisted that "what really counts is faith, family and friends." Mrs. Moon followed the ex-president to the podium and announced that "it has to be Reverend Moon to save the United States, which is in decline because of the destruction of the family and moral decay." [Washington Post, Sept. 15, 1995]
In summer 1996, Bush was lending his prestige to Moon again. Bush addressed the Moon-connected Family Federation for World Peace in Washington, an event that gained notoriety when comedian Bill Cosby tried to back out of his contract after learning of Moon's connection. Bush had no such qualms. [WP, July 30, 1996]
Throughout these public appearances, Bush's office has refused to divulge how much Moon-affiliated organizations have paid the ex-president. But estimates of Bush's fee for the Buenos Aires appearance alone ran between $100,000 and $500,000. Sources close to the Unification Church have put the total Bush-Moon package in the millions, with one source telling The Consortium that Bush stood to make as much as $10 million. link: The Consortium.
HELP THE BUSH FAMILY GOOGLE BOMB!
Simply cut and paste the following code into any website, blog, signature, or message post you can:
The <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon1.html">Bush Family</a> are <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html">Moonies</a>.
Godspeed, fellow Google-Bombers. Unleash heck.
UPDATE: Sorry for the bad HTML early, folks.