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?"

Comments

Re:You need directions?

[Aardpig]

And for the Glenn Beck followers: 5. I have two hands and I need directions to my ass.

Not a problem

[istartedi]

If you can't find the Lincoln Memorial without a map, you are too stupid to remember to breathe. Therefore, anybody for whom this would be a problem will pass out before they get there. Hopefully they won't be behind the wheel when it happens.

I'm not just saying this because I'm from that area. It's big. The land around it is flat. There are nice views of it from everywhere.

It's a plot to silence Glenn Beck

[Beelzebud]

I mean, if google has scrubbed the Lincoln memorial from their maps, how else will Beck faithful be able to find it? If only there was a media outlet that hyped this event for the entire summer. Oh wait...

Re:Coincidences

[clarkkent09]

Would you consider Wolf Blitzer or Chris Matthews to be mainstream? Well this is how they compare: http://tvbythenumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2010.01.31-5pm-P2+-590x455.png For the record Beck is a clown and even I as a libertarian find his antics painful to watch but you can't dispute his numbers. So you might as well start weeping for your countrymen.

Re:The answer? Simple

[langelgjm]

NOVA vs. ROVA, right? I had a perverse thought about going down to the mall wearing my fake keffiyeh and reading a copy of the Qur'an, but I figured the $4 metro fare and the possibility of being assaulted make it not worthwhile.

Add Abraham

[falken0905]

If you search on 'Abraham Lincoln memorial' it gets you the the right spot. It's the one with the big statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a very large chair and a large crowd of brainless idiot sheep gathering early Saturday morning.

Re:Restoring Horror

[Doc Ruby]

The Democrats of the 60s who wanted to beat Martin Luther King into a pulp became Republicans. They and the ones who joined them are the Republicans of today. Just as the Republicans of the 1860s who abolished slavery are ancient history.

Aveda King is there to explain to Beck's zombie army that abortion is murder, even though it isn't, and is instead a protected civil right.

You Republicans even hate Jews, otherwise why mention John Stewart's non stage name. Some things evidently don't change.

Re:Restoring Horror

[Doc Ruby]

More details on how Alveda King says gay marriage is genocide, and other insane Christian Taliban talk that Martin Luther King would denounce. The woman is obviously a fraud, scamming along on her famous uncle without any merit of her own - the ultimate bigot:

Alveda is dismissive of her aunt [MLK's Civil Rights partner, Coretta Scott King] who died in 2006, saying, "I've got his DNA. She doesn't, she didn't ... Therefore I know something about him. I'm made out of the same stuff."

The niece is clearly riding more "the color of her skin" than "the content of her character", spitting on her uncle's legacy.

David Garrow, a civil rights movement historian at the University of Cambridge, said that Martin Luther King Jr. was unambiguously progressive.

"King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s," he said. "One could make a very strong case that King thought of himself as a democratic socialist. It's also well-documented that Dr. King was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood, and it's well-documented that one of his five or six closest advisers, Bayard Rustin, was gay."

There's also details on how Beck scammed a nonprofit into paying for this travesty event, while Beck keeps all the profits. You Republicans are such suckers, the only surprise is that you have any money left after you sank it all into a decade of Bush/Cheney like a bonfire.

Re:And something you tend to find with geography

[Blakey Rat]

However, there is sometimes the impression that US citizens know more about the geography of their own country than of others around the world.

At the risk of using an American-ism... duh?

I mean, what are you expecting here? I bet Chinese citizens know more about the geography of China than they do about, for example, Guatemala. Isn't that to be expected?

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