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"The search giant rankles the right by declining to commemorate certain holidays. By Chris Thompson Posted Friday, June 13, 2008, at 8:12 AM ET [...] But in the last few years, as Google has grown to dominate the world of Internet search, some people have detected a more sinister motive behind its choice of days to commemorate. From the National Review to NewsBusters and InstaPundit, some of the country's most prominent conservative opinion journals and news sites have published stories and blog posts denouncing Google for subtly pushing a liberal worldview in its doodles while steadfastly refusing to commemorate patriotic or religious holidays. Few keep a closer watch on Google than the editors of National Review. For years, they have monitored Google's doodles in search of value judgments about America. When Google ignored Memorial Day in 2006, editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg wrote on NRO's Corner, "It's kind of sad. They change their logo for all sorts of holidays and occasions. Just last week they paid tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday. But Memorial Day doesn't seem to rate anything at all." In 2007, online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote, "What, no Easter? I wasn't expecting a risen Christ, but at least an Easter bunny?" Last June 6, Lopez sniffed, "So today is the D-Day anniversary. Today is the day RFK died 40 years ago. So Google is celebrating Diego Velazquez's birthday, natch." Even when Google commemorates Independence Day, Lopez has looked for hints of a clandestine liberal sensibility. Last year, she printed a comment from a reader who claimed that the American eagle on Google's logo was clutching olive branches—but not arrows, the symbol of America's military might: "I think they've gone with a remodeled 'peace is patriotic' bumper sticker. They just couldn't bring themselves to do something 'American' without making some kind of signal about current policy." [...] Perhaps the most extreme condemnations come from the editors of the populist WorldNetDaily.com, who have all but accused Google of advancing the cause of godless communism. "Google consistently ignores patriotic American holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day," WorldNetDaily's editors wrote last October, "but today it acknowledged an accomplishment of the communist Soviet Union, which launched the Sputnik satellite fifty years ago." The news site, which has also complained that Google's search rankings keep its stories in the basement, even ominously reported that the company misspelled its logo when commemorating Valentine's Day last year. "Previous Valentine's Day logos for Google, obtained by WND, have no such possible confusion for spelling," the site noted. Could Google even have it in for love? "If you're going to choose to commemorate some really quite bizarre occasions, and never, never in their history, never once commemorating Memorial Day, which is a very significant holiday in the United States, I think that says something about who Google is," says WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah. "By the way," he adds, "I like Google's product. I wish there were another company out there that didn't make me sick to my stomach.""

http://www.slate.com/id/2193482/

Just another example of a pretty annoying trend.

For all the hatred the right used to have for political correctness and outrage, they're the new champions of it.

If anything remotely "unamerican" (should I have said unAmerican?! ) is said, the outrage knows no bounds, and anyone remotely related to the statement must disavow it.

Does this phenomenon sound familiar to anyone else?

6/14/2008 9:52:55 AM

lol some people have waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their times if this is what they bitch about.

6/14/2008 9:57:51 AM

^^ Don't worry, eventually they'll all get pissed off and kill each other. None of us will miss either of them.

[Edited on June 14, 2008 at 9:58 AM. Reason : /]

6/14/2008 9:58:18 AM

6/14/2008 10:02:18 AM

oh come on

Google does Thanksgiving, Christmas, Independence Day, and last year they did Veterans Day

6/14/2008 10:10:42 AM

I can't wait for the political prisoners to start being rounded up and for the government to rule that criticism of America (and especially the government) is not covered under the 1st Amendment.

6/14/2008 11:17:15 AM

FWIW...

If you Google "Patriotism", the first thing you get is a wiki article that begins with:

"Patriotism denotes positive and supportive attitudes to a 'fatherland' by individuals and groups."

6/14/2008 11:13:07 PM

Quote :

"EarthDogg: "Patriotism denotes positive and supportive attitudes to a 'fatherland' by individuals and groups.""

Easy, Dr. Strangelove.

Patriotism. Patriarch.

I see nothing alarming here...

[Edited on June 14, 2008 at 11:53 PM. Reason : ...]

6/14/2008 11:52:35 PM