Comments on: It’s time to stand up for Google http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: patriotboy http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-21518 patriotboy Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:53:13 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-21518 Charles Johnson may say he hates nazis, but you'll find rhetoric just as vile as that of the Third Reich's on his site. Take this <a href="http://www.drmenlo.com/lgfquiz/" rel="nofollow">quiz</a> and you'll see what I mean. Charles Johnson may say he hates nazis, but you’ll find rhetoric just as vile as that of the Third Reich’s on his site. Take this quiz and you’ll see what I mean.

]]> By: Aakash http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-21376 Aakash Sat, 16 Apr 2005 05:18:06 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-21376 This is bizarre. I just posted the following comment at a blog, regarding Charles Johnson's "Little Green Footballs." In this comment post, I link to a blog entry in which I address the issue of Charles Johnson, Jeff Jarvis, and Roger L. Simon being regarded as "conservative" bloggers. I was looking for other recent blog entries about LGF, and I just found this one - which incidentally, also links to the other aforementioned bloggers, and also referring to them as leading "conservative" weblogs!! Incidentally, the blogs referred to in this entry just happen to be the same ones that I addressed in this comment post... Here is it: ------------ It is tiring to see people refer to bloggers such as Mr. Johnson as "conservative." I addressed this issue in <a href="http://uis.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_uis_archive.html#111143741630983850" rel="nofollow">one of my blog entries</a> on the Terri Schindler-Schiavo situation. As you can see there, Mr. Johnson is <a href="http://www.patrickruffini.com/rants/001198.php#c4049" rel="nofollow">regarded as</a> a liberal who was "mugged by 9/11." Other popular pro-war, left-of-center bloggers include Roger L. Simon, Jeff Jarvis, Michael Totten, and War Liberal. No offense towards Mr. Johnson, but characterizing viewpoints such as his as "conservative" gives <a href="http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/revitalizingconservatism.asp" rel="nofollow">true conservatism</a> a bad name. ------------ This is bizarre. I just posted the following comment at a blog, regarding Charles Johnson’s “Little Green Footballs.” In this comment post, I link to a blog entry in which I address the issue of Charles Johnson, Jeff Jarvis, and Roger L. Simon being regarded as “conservative” bloggers. I was looking for other recent blog entries about LGF, and I just found this one – which incidentally, also links to the other aforementioned bloggers, and also referring to them as leading “conservative” weblogs!!

Incidentally, the blogs referred to in this entry just happen to be the same ones that I addressed in this comment post… Here is it:

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It is tiring to see people refer to bloggers such as Mr. Johnson as “conservative.”

I addressed this issue in one of my blog entries on the Terri Schindler-Schiavo situation.

As you can see there, Mr. Johnson is regarded as a liberal who was “mugged by 9/11.” Other popular pro-war, left-of-center bloggers include Roger L. Simon, Jeff Jarvis, Michael Totten, and War Liberal.

No offense towards Mr. Johnson, but characterizing viewpoints such as his as “conservative” gives true conservatism a bad name.

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]]> By: The Blogosphere’s first dedicated stalker? http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-21054 The Blogosphere’s first dedicated stalker? Sat, 09 Apr 2005 12:43:08 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-21054 [...] viewed by other members of the mainstream media. Get my drift? I even defended Google News back in February for running what was basically a Nazi news site on Google [...] [...] viewed by other members of the mainstream media. Get my drift? I even defended Google News back in February for running what was basically a Nazi news site on Google [...]

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]]> By: WOLves http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-18370 WOLves Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:09:19 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-18370 <strong>What is News and What is Not?</strong> Interesting commentary over at the Blog Herald What is News and What is Not?
Interesting commentary over at the Blog Herald

]]> By: Adam http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-18318 Adam Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:53:52 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-18318 Amen, Duncan! You're absolutely right on three key counts: 1) Google bashing is the new (annoying) "cool." Our society loves to idolize people, companies, and so on, only to relish in tearing them down to size. Predictable and pathetic (both the over-eager idolizing and the vicious tearing down). 2) LGF and the other conservative bloggers are having a bad case of sour grapes. Personally, I think LGF is a crappy blog... but more importantly, I don't think (and many of the conservative blogs) really qualify as news outlets anyway. Funny how they all paint a vast leftwing conspiracy to explain why they're on the losing end of the stick. 3) Just because a newspaper or journal is included in Google News doesn't mean that Googlers (or other sane people) necessarily LIKE that paper. Heck, I think Al Jazeera (sp?) is pretty darn scary, but it's still a newspaper, still reporting the news. LGF is more like the teen in the backrow throwing spitwads at the teacher. Amen, Duncan!

You’re absolutely right on three key counts:

1) Google bashing is the new (annoying) “cool.” Our society loves to idolize people, companies, and so on, only to relish in tearing them down to size. Predictable and pathetic (both the over-eager idolizing and the vicious tearing down).

2) LGF and the other conservative bloggers are having a bad case of sour grapes. Personally, I think LGF is a crappy blog… but more importantly, I don’t think (and many of the conservative blogs) really qualify as news outlets anyway. Funny how they all paint a vast leftwing conspiracy to explain why they’re on the losing end of the stick.

3) Just because a newspaper or journal is included in Google News doesn’t mean that Googlers (or other sane people) necessarily LIKE that paper. Heck, I think Al Jazeera (sp?) is pretty darn scary, but it’s still a newspaper, still reporting the news. LGF is more like the teen in the backrow throwing spitwads at the teacher.

]]> By: Duncan http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-18317 Duncan Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:10:38 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-18317 Dave I respect what you are saying but the way to combat speech you don't agree with should not be to seek its censorship, but should be to speak loudly and convince more people that your right. LGF throws around tags against the Nazi site without any strong writing to back it up on the site, then justifies it all by saying that they were rejected, with the natuaral reader conclusion on conpsiracy. Dave
I respect what you are saying but the way to combat speech you don’t agree with should not be to seek its censorship, but should be to speak loudly and convince more people that your right. LGF throws around tags against the Nazi site without any strong writing to back it up on the site, then justifies it all by saying that they were rejected, with the natuaral reader conclusion on conpsiracy.

]]> By: Dave Brown http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/comment-page-1/#comment-18316 Dave Brown Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:19:48 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/24/its-time-to-stand-up-for-google/#comment-18316 Duncan: Charles at LGF is avowedly and steadfastly anti-Nazi, and as he would say, anti-idiotarian. A quick search of his site would find a consistant theme. While your point is well taken, he was pissed at being dissed, I think that he went after Google for the same reason that I and others did: Google (carelessly, one hopes) gave preferncial status to a Nazi website. Picture painted? I have seen with my own eyes that is that the Left, maybe even more than the Right, is seeking to rehab aspects of the National Socialist movement for their own gains. This probably stems from a convoluted attempt to justify the well of Naziism, anti-Semitism, and Islamo-fascism that bubbles up daily from many quarters of the world: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050321/480/jrl12003211516 Duncan:

Charles at LGF is avowedly and steadfastly anti-Nazi, and as he would say, anti-idiotarian. A quick search of his site would find a consistant theme. While your point is well taken, he was pissed at being dissed, I think that he went after Google for the same reason that I and others did: Google (carelessly, one hopes) gave preferncial status to a Nazi website. Picture painted?

I have seen with my own eyes that is that the Left, maybe even more than the Right, is seeking to rehab aspects of the National Socialist movement for their own gains. This probably stems from a convoluted attempt to justify the well of Naziism, anti-Semitism, and Islamo-fascism that bubbles up daily from many quarters of the world:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050321/480/jrl12003211516

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