Why Google News Favors Moonbats?
Charles Johnson
Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 6:07 pm PST • Views: 580
Several LGF readers emailed about this article at USA Today, suggesting a possible reason why Google News keeps giving LGF excuses when we ask to be included in their index: Google’s givers go Democratic.
SAN FRANCISCO — As it claws for greater power, the Democratic Party has found a newly rich ally in one of the fastest-growing U.S. companies: Google.
Google employees gave $207,650 to federal candidates for last year’s elections, up from just $250 in 2000 when it was still a start-up. And 98% went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors, a new USA TODAY campaign finance analysis shows.
The online search giant’s beefier political profile reflects moves by the broader tech industry to defend itself in recent years as Washington debates Internet taxes, offshoring of jobs and other hot issues.
Google giving is still small compared with other tech donors. At No. 1 Microsoft, workers and its political action committee gave $3.1 million last year; 60% to Democrats. Overall, 53% of the industry’s $25.9 million went to Democrats, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance.
UPDATE at 2/14/05 6:25:35 pm:
To recap, we’ve noticed on many occasions that Google News does include more than a few sites with, to say the least, serious credibility problems —including hard-core anarchist site Infoshop, Justin Raimondo’s paleocon antisemitic site antiwar.com, barking moonbat lunatic asylum Democratic Underground, radical Islamic jihadi sites khilafah.com and Jihad Unspun, and extremist pro-Palestinian site electronic intifada, to name only a few.
Frank says: