I'm the literal poster child for Google News bias

[weldon berger]

For the second time in less than a week, one of the posts I wrote on my blog wound up on the front page of Google News. The first was about the assault on Don Rumsfeld, and bore the headline, "Rumsfeld: Captain Queeg, but without his marbles." DU veteran ThoughtCriminal saw the headline and kindly posted about it here. The second was a short post today on Scott McClellan's resignation, with the headline, "We won’t have Scott McClellan to kick around anymore."

It's rare that one of my posts hits the front page, and in the ordinary way of things I don't find out about it until someone tells me or I see an unusually large number of Google News referrals in the access logs. The latter is what happened today, and I thought, "Wow, jackpot again." Then I noticed a bunch of referrals from Free Republic sprinkled in among the Google News ones, and I thought, "What on earth did I do to annoy them?" So I tracked the referrals back, and and I found a thread on McClellan's resignation, and in that thread I found a post featuring a screenshot from Google News, which at the moment it was captured featured ... me, beneath a caption that read, "WOW..... Google news not showing annnnnnnnnny bias here!"



And they didn't even comment on finding Capitol Hill Blue in the third tier next to the Times.

It's a pretty entertaining thread, full of suggestions for McClellan's replacement. Dennis Miller and Ann Coulter featured prominently, along with Hugh Hewitt, Victoria Tensig and ... Jack Bauer. The first four would either flee weeping or suffer rapid cranial decompression within an hour of their first encounter with the press, but Jack, Jack just might tame that slavering pack of commie dogs.

[smoochpooch]

1. Ha Ha, Dennis Miller!

Lol! No press secretary can save this presidency. Plus, Jack Bauer actually does the right thing for the country.