They came out to play-ee-ay the only way they know how, by (ironically) coordinating a fascist campaign to remove the best takedown EVAR!! of a shitty book from Google results. Pussies.
And yet it appears that Google has decided to punish this modest blogger despite the fact that I am actually a victim of this nefarious attempt to hijack Google. Google has now erased all traces of my piece “Jonah Goldberg’s Shining (Liberal Fascism with LOLCats)” from search results for the phrase “Liberal Fascism.” While it was once in the Top 10 of results for a search on the words “Liberal Fascism” it is now missing from that search entirely. Despite the fact that my piece has 94 links, according to Technorati, Google has decided that after the Amazon page for the book, the most informative links for the words “Liberal Fascism” include a Think Progress piece from two years ago that is not really about the book, with 9 links; a piece from The Corner (0 links) about all the great reviews the book has received; a piece by Cactus from the Angry Bear (1 link), who, like me, has not actually read the book; another piece from two years ago by Brendan Nyhan (4 links) ridiculing the book; and a page from the Urban Dictionary (27 links) defining a word that I cannot repeat here since this is a family-safe blog. (Update: The Urban Dictionary page has now moved into the Number One slot ahead of the Amazon page.)
In case you didn’t see it before, here’s the article again.
Polling is as accurate as a 19th century weather forecast.
At this point, pollsters might as well just pull their numbers out of thin air and deem them golden. They’d be just as likely to be accurate.
For the record: Clinton won with 39%, Obama 36%, Edwards with 17%. Not even close to the polls above.
A close look shows that the pollsters did get Edwards’ support spot-on, and were within striking distance of Obama. The gross, completely off the charts miss was with Clinton’s support. I don’t think this is an example of the Bradley effect, but could, quite possibly, be a Tweety effect (where the masses show their outrage at the misogyny of cable news hosts, mobilize, and vote). Women broke late for Clinton and I’m suspecting her ground game played a part.
Horse race commentary: NH is Hillary’s back yard, much like Iowa is Obamas. If she couldn’t win there, she couldn’t win anywhere. Now, the (two-headed) race is on and the Democrats will be better for it, it’s just unfortunate, by my lights, that the race devolved into a binary decision as the media always pushed it (any choices greater than 2 are too many!). Oh wel.
For some reason, Lady Punch is making the rounds. I’m not clear why, exactly, but for your enlightenment, here it is:
I don’t know the backstory, I don’t know who’s what or where, but one explanation, has it from a TV series following criminal wrongdoing, the woman who gets punched is denigrating the victim (she was on WEEEEED!), and the punchor is a relative of the victim. I don’t care. Assault is still assault, even with provocation.
I’m blaming Johnny Knoxville for this being popular.
