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sourmilk Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:03 AM
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Is Obama getting STEALTH "google-bombed?"
How in the heck could googling "Obama Lies" produce thirteen million references when googling "Bush Lies" produces just over a million references, and "Clinton Lies" produces only three million???

There is something going ON here, I believe...

I haven't seen anyone on any RW site (FR, LGF, Politico, Salon, Drudge - ya, I checked them all and then took the day off, sick) asking people to "google-bomb" this phrase, but it seems inconceivable to me that this could be some kind of "innocent mistake."

Does anyone know anything about a stealth campaign? Are RW blog writers and RW posters purposefully using this term in order to send a message and to make it so that anytime ANYONE searches the phrase, they get OVERWHELMED? Could there be an alternate justification for this phenomenon I am unaware of?

Perhaps I need to take the AFB off, folks, but honestly, this does not sound (at least, to me) remotely possible under normal circumstances.

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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:08 AM
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1. I'm not the least bit suprised!
Many of the the issues that are brought about the Obama's are either blown way out of proportion or are non-issues. To see the 13 million references does not shock me one bit.
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sourmilk Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:16 AM
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2. Even in comparison to "Bush Lies?"
I really think that this is STRANGE - to say the least!
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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:23 AM
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3. However
I was a little bit surprised by that figure. I thought is should have been a little bit closer.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:30 AM
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4. Maybe folk aren't talking about Bush Lies (pro or con) because that's a Given. nt
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sourmilk Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:51 AM
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5. I seem to remember a pretty long google campaign for "Bush Lied..."
I just find it difficult to conceive that "Obama Lies" could even come close to "Bush Lies" - let alone top it by 1300%...
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:55 AM
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6. Obama is very popular worldwide it also depends the context..
Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 07:58 AM by barack the house
The world is discussiing all the Obama lies made about him. The world has given up talking about Bush they know what to expect with him there is a whirlwind of excitement for Obama though.
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LowerManhattanite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:36 AM
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7. If Google adds in the stuff DU's PUMA deadenders throw up...
...here every day, I can easily see that 13 million number being right.

Easily. :(
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