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Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?

Posted by timothy on from the those-naughty-republicans dept.

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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  1. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Conservative bloggers smell a conspiracy

    This isn't really surprising. Proof of narcissistic and paranoid personality disorders are required prior to becoming a conservative blogger.

  2. You need directions? by atari2600 · · Score: -1, Troll

    So people who want to goto the Lincoln memorial cannot do so without Google maps? That's like saying

    1. I live in Seattle and I need directions to the Pike Place market
    2. I live in Orlando and I need directions to the Disney World Resort
    3. I live in Arizona and I need directions to the Grand Canyon

    now the best part
    4. I live in Vegas and I need directions to the strip.

    Follow the bloody directions on the road or...bear with me here....use a fucking GPS. Granted, what Google did here is silly and appears juvenile (if they did anything that is), but Glenn Beck and his fans can go fuck themselves.

    1. Re:You need directions? by Aardpig · · Score: 0, Troll

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

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  3. Not a problem by istartedi · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  4. Re:Coincidences by FrameRotBlues · · Score: -1, Troll

    I had to re-read your last sentence to make sure you weren't saying that Glenn Beck is embraced by the mainstream. Because if you were (and if, somehow, that were true) I would weep for my countrymen.

    And then I'd slap the shit outta 'em.

  5. It's a plot to silence Glenn Beck by Beelzebud · · Score: 0, Troll

    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...

  6. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, if a business does something they don't like, it's a conspiracy. When a business does something they agree with (and others do not), it's the owners of the company enjoying the fruits of "their" labor.

  7. Re:Coincidences by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  8. Re:The answer? Simple by langelgjm · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  9. Try holding it somewhere easier to find. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Like Nascar. Then people got two things to go to.

  10. Restoring Horror by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone actually think that Beck is not either 1: totally insane or 2: ripping off MLK's legacy with exactly the kind of people who would have beaten MLK to a pulp in 1963 for trying this the first time, or 3: 1+2?

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    1. Re:Restoring Horror by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Troll

      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.

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    2. Re:Restoring Horror by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Troll

      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.

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  11. Add Abraham by falken0905 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  12. Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Prove? That's a hell of an overstatement.
    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.

  13. Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh please, so you found a couple of quislings, that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of Tea Partiers/Right-Wingers are flat out racists. Anybody can easily find evidence for this easily. Go to any right-wing web site and find an article about a black person who's committed a crime. Look at the comments. Over and over they'll say things like, "What do you expect, blacks are sub-human, they're all low-IQ criminals and dirty hoodrats, etc., etc." And nobody will condemn these blanket assertions, and if anybody does, they will be immediately branded a liberal or nigger-lover. Find an article about President Obama. Or about an Arab. Same deal, it's never enough to say the person is wrong, but their whole race is branded as deficient. And again, nobody steps in to say, "hey, let's stop disparaging this person's race/ethnicity, it's disgusting."

    And you know what, if you are white and you want to be racist, go ahead, knock yourself out. But stop being cowards, stop pretending that you only care about "equality" when you and your political compatriots have nothing but unveiled contempt for blacks and other minorities.

    One more thing: The funny thing about the so-called race card is that white people act as though black people somehow "threaten" them with the race card, when in reality, it's only a threat because the majority of white people allow themselves to get scared by the racist label. Blacks by themselves don't have enough power as a group to threaten anything against the white majority, and never have. So the next time you get mad about somebody playing the race card, remember that it's your fellow whites who give force to that rhetorical weapon.

  14. Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Teabaggers are idiots and full of fail, but there are black teabaggers and even hispanics.

    http://www.thegrio.com/politics/some-blacks-back-tea-party-despite-movements-racist-reputation.php
    http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/19/black-tea-party-protesters-vs
    http://www.teapartypatriots.org/GroupNew/20024d1a-72d1-404c-944a-1c132930142f/HISPANICS_FOR_FREEDOM
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/25/tea_partiers_racist_not_so_fast_105309.html

  15. Re:And something you tend to find with geography by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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