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Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results
theodp writes "CNN reports that for most of the past week, when someone did a Google image search for 'Michelle Obama,' one of the first images that came up was a picture of the First Lady altered to resemble a monkey. After being hit with a firestorm of criticism over the episode, Google first banned the site that posted the photo, saying it could spread malware. Then, when the image appeared on another site, Google displayed the photo in its search results, but displayed an apologetic Google ad above it. On Wednesday morning, the racially offensive image appeared to have been removed from any Google Image searches for 'Michelle Obama.' Google officials could not immediately be reached for comment."
Update — 15:38 GMT by SS: A reader pointed out that this article from the Guardian says the image was de-listed simply because it was removed from the blog where it was hosted rather than by any "deliberate" action from Google.
Now, I realise that as a European, my idea of left, right and centre are quite different from that of the US (the US left wing seems more like right wing from our perspective), but I'm fairly certain that it's the US right wing that try to ban gay marriage, and not the left wing.
They all seem to be Christian conservatives, and that sounds a lot more like right wing republicans than it does left wing.
Same with the homosexuals in the military, sex education and such - sounds more like the Christian conservatives than the left.
Granted, you may be using sarcasm and/or irony that I didn't pick up on.