Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?

John3 writes "Searching Google Maps for the Lincoln Memorial is returning the location of the FDR Memorial instead. Conservative bloggers smell a conspiracy since Glenn Beck is holding his 'Restoring Honor' gathering at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow (August 28). Notes for the map listing on Google state 'This place has unverified edits'; so, did someone claim the listing and edit the location?"

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Maybe Google is just honoring Beck

[antifoidulus]

Google is just honoring him by being as disconnected from reality as Glenn Beck is!

Considering Google's background

[ub3r n3u7r4l1st]

I wouldn't surprise if they did this.

Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google?

[toadlife]

Frankly, I call anyone who says otherwise a racist themselves.

You are generalizing about people who generalize.

I only know three, but every "tea partier" I personally know is an older white person who harbors what I would call..."ethnic animosity".

Certain groups are terrified of what the Tea Party stands for, and they've played the race card in order to try and stop it.

The playing of the race card is nothing more than a misunderstanding of the core motivation of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party is the John Birch society all over again. The primary motivation is not race, but economics. It's a bunch of people who see the shifting economic social climate as a threat to the status quo which has benefited them greatly. The issue of racism comes out of simple demographics. Most of the tea partiers are mostly older white people, and a higher percentage of older white people harbor racial animosity. Hell, even my Dad who is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive and participated in civil rights marches in the 1960's has expressed sentiments that can come across as "racist". It's doesn't mean he's racist. He's just an old white dude who suffers from the same fears as other older white people.

Re:Beck's Sheep Can't Find the Lincoln Memorial?

[AlterEager]

Most of the people who listen to him believe in the core tenet of Burkian conservatism, that's quite good enough.

Wat core tenet? That your money is only safe in the hands of the rich?

1 in 5 Americans think Obama is Muslim

[Nicolas MONNET]

Must be the same.

And since they're quite obviously the type(*) who would want to attend Insane Glenn's meeting ...

(*) morons

Would it be dismissed so easily?

[davev2.0]

Would so many on slashdot dismiss it so easily if it were a gathering of Democrats, liberals, and progressives?

"Disprove That"

[DesScorp]

My conjecture: Most of the tea party folks got involved because the president doesn't look like them. And that scared the hell out of them.

Disprove that.

So you accuse your opponents of racism, and then put the burden of proof on them... all while posting AC.

You're anonymous, but you're also truly a coward. Disprove that.