It's just a matter of perspective (UPDATED)

(UPDATE #1):

Take this for what it’s worth…

In doing some homework for this post, we entered “Private William Long murder” into the Google search engine. Here is the search result page. Two things: Almost without exception, what appears at the top of the page is “News Results for (whatever search words you entered)”. The News Results for… does not appear at the top of our search for William Long as it does for “Obama health care”. Also, one has to get to the 5th page of search results to actually find a hard news story from a news site on Private Long’s murder. Virtually every other search result was blog reaction to or cable T.V. commentary on Long’s murder.

Recall back in December when Google (despite the disclaimer that story placement is a result of a computer algorithm) admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. This obviousness bore itself out in our quixotic quest for the satircal “Obama – Obey” icon.

(here endeth the update)



Hey, here’s a place that makes mention of Private Long. You remember Private Long, don’t you? Yeah, we know – the events in Iran have justifiably dominated the news cycle but, as with us, this place wants you to know they have not forgotten about the assassination of a member of our armed forces at the hands of an Islamic extremist. Well, they haven’t forgotten about Private Long, if the Private Long you are referring to is private long-term health insurance.

The Mudville Gazette has more, here.

We’re not letting this one go. From floating the idea of making wounded service members pay for their own treatment of battlefield injuries to failure to even comment on the murder of Private William Long this administration has shown an extraordinary callousness to members of the military – a callousness of which we will continue to call them out.