Dropping the G-bomb on McCain
Monday, June 23rd, 2008I’m no fan of the Democratic Party, especially this month, but an enterprising liberal blogger has come up with a scheme to Google bomb John McCain, and I’ll help in whatever small way I can.
If you’re not familiar with the term, Google bombing is a way to increase the ranking of particular web pages in the Google search results, by linking to those pages. It would be nice if people searching for information on John McCain came up with the articles that describe how John McCain voted to filibuster a minimum wage hike, how John McCain said it would be “fine” to keep the troops in Iraq for a hundred years, how John McCain said Bush was right to veto health care funding for poor children…you get the idea.
Nine articles are part of the project. I can’t figure out why McCain’s admitted use of the word “gook” wasn’t one of them. I think he’d lose a vote or two if one of the top ten Google searches for “McCain” pointed to his recent use of the racist epithet. This wasn’t just during his time as a POW, no, he said “gook” right out during a conversation with reporters, on his campaign bus, in 2000. “I hated the gooks,” said McCain. “I will hate them as long as I live.” Sounds like straight talk to me, much more believable than the apology that followed some days later.
