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Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad
Whip-hero writes in with an Examiner.com story about Google's rejection of an ad critical of MoveOn.org. The story rehashes the controversy over MoveOn.org's ad that ran in the NYTimes on the first day of testimony of Gen. Petraeus's Senate testimony. The rejected ad was submitted on behalf of Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins — its text is reproduced in the article. The implication, which has been picked up by many blogs on the other side of the spectrum from MoveOn.org, is that Google acted out of political favoritism. Not so, says Google's policy counsel: Google's trademark policy allows any trademark holder to request that its marks not be used in ads; and MoveOn.org had made such a request.
What exactly was so offensive about MoveOn.org's ad campaign [moveon.org] in the first place?
Oh I dunno. Maybe the fact it was a tasteless attack on an honorable four star general! Never mind that he was also confirmed in the Senate 81-0 on Jan 2007.
Sorry, but the vast majority of America knows how kooky MoveOn.org and Daily Kos are. It's too late for them. Politically, they're a bunch of rats doing down a sinking ship. Ideologically speaking that is...
Life is not for the lazy.
how would you classify "poorly"?