Let's not beat around the bush. John Hagee may portray himself as the most zealously pro-Israel televangelist in the nation (at least among the big-time televangelists), but he's really an anti-Semite. I'm sorry, but when you start throwing around terms like "international finance," you've gone over the line. It's "polite" anti-Semitism, but anti-Semitic nonetheless.
The app lets you paste in any text containing the word "McCain" and quickly hyperlink all occurances with one of the 9 links to the stories Chris provided.
As promised earlier today, in the extended entry you will find a quick and effective action to help spread the truth about, and thus lower the image of, Rudy Giuliani.
I posted this as a page on my personal blog, and decided to post it over here too so more people would read it. [Blogwhore] My blog is called Political Games. [/Blogwhore]
It has become clear to me that Arlen Specer is a moral coward who talks about principles and beliefs but then refuses to stand for them when he has the chance. There is a long list of this, including his "not proven" vote during the Clinton impeachment, his vote for the 2006 Military Commissions Act which stripped "detainees" of the right to habeas corpus, and now these latest shenanigans.
Yesterday I wrote a diary about how the Giuliani campaign literally made up a fake grassroots organization called "Firefighters for Rudy" to rebut the charges of negligence and callousness from the IAFF. This is a big deal; the Giuliani team is trying to make Firefighters for Rudy look like a competing organization to the IAFF, when the ratio of membership is approximately 280,000-1. The AP ran a quote from the executive director - and only known member - of "Firefighters for Rudy", without noting that he's a Giuliani campaign aide. Ah, that liberal media.
Anyway, I also cross-posted that diary at my site. And it came and went, but a few other bloggers picked up the story, so at least it seemed like it was percolating under the radar.
We did a great job in 2006 of connecting Republicans to Bush and only a slightly less great job of connecting them to the worldwide disaster that is right-wing conservatism.
I'm calling upon the Dkos community to begin a conserted effort to raise awarness of the grandiose failings of conservatism.
Remember how Google promised that they had fixed their 'Googlebomb' problem? And it would no longer be the case that when you punched 'miserable failure' into Google, you got our President George W. Bush back?
Well, they kept that promise. But guess what? In 2007, Google makes it look like the Senate is trapped in 2002. Punch 'Senate Majority Leader' into the search engine, and Republican Trent Lott comes back.
Google announced today that it has implemented new algorithms to stop the practice of "Googlebombing" -- the practice of manipulating links to move certain webpages toward the top of search results. This has been a tactic of the Netroots in the past, and recently Chris Bowers called for a "Googlebomb" to make negative stories about John McCain appear higher in Google search results.
If you are anything like me, you are sick and tired of the national image of John McCain as some sort of independent, principled, Republican moderate. Examples of McCain's departure from the Bush administration's agenda are truly few and far between. Despite reports to the contrary, he has consistently supported and facilitated the most egregiously radical aspects of that agenda. Further, in an attempt to improve his prospects for the Republican nomination in 2008, he has spent much of the last three years sucking up to the theocon wing of the Republican Party that he once decried. Most famously, this included retracting comments he made about Jerry Falwell and then speaking at Falwell's Liberty University. Pandering to extremists you once denounced in order to improve your electoral prospects hardly sounds "principled" to me.
What's important.... He was giving strategic advice to Republican Governors. The media has picked up on the google bombing techniques used by both sides. We should be vigilant. Google helped to kill the Allen campaign and the law of probability
So this is it. We all hit the polls tomorrow, hopefully we've managed to educate a few voters along the way. This has, for the most part, been incredibly successful, with no response of note from the right while getting coverage from Hardball, CNN, and the New York Times twice, including today (hat tip Sprinkles). It's been amazing to see this level of specific coordination and cooperation from the diaspora of Dem blogs, made all the more impressive because we pretty much did this on the fly.
Just two more days and we're obviously weilding some influence with so many of these stories camped out for a solid week at or near the top of google searches. Just one of many ways that we've been able to shape the debate as well as the playing field this time around. The degrees that separate bloggers from every other voter are being reduced and we're really starting to break through. Keep it up. Results on the flip.
What little motion there is has all been positive, and there have really been some excellent ideas thrown out in the past few days to build this into something even bigger next time, so thanks to everyone contributing in that regard. Since I don't really have anything else to add, I thought it'd be fun to mention some of the storylines that we've been living next to for some of these guys and gals, baked into your full recap on the flip.
Still not a whole lot of movement, mostly because these all seem to be as high as they're getting. Several great bits of info from the comments yesterday, with Chris Bowers estimating that this will reach 100,000 people before it's all said and done. Then, aip brought us updates from GoogleRankings, incorporating results from msn and yahoo as well. A full update of those results are now here. The support and organization has been great, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Just a few more days to go and we're looking pretty darn good. Results on the flip.
