The Google, The Yahoo and The Alta Vista catch Bush on "stay the course"

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Rosa Brooks: The Google Catches Bush
Exposing the administration's folly on Iraq with a three-second Internet search.
October 27, 2006

UNLIKE HIS DAD, whose apparent befuddlement over a supermarket checkout scanner helped lose him the presidency, George W. Bush is one tech-savvy guy. He told CNBC this week that he sometimes goes "on the Google...to pull up maps like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."

Who can fault Bush for wishing to be back at the ranch? He's had a rotten week — and it's partly thanks to The Google.

As the president discovered this week, The Google — along with The Yahoo, The AltaVista and all the other Internet search engines — have made it infinitely harder for politicians to contradict themselves without getting caught.

It started on Sunday. On ABC-TV's "This Week," Bush insisted to George Stephanopoulos that when it comes to Iraq policy, "we've never been 'stay the course,' George!" Stephanopoulos looked astonished by this, since it's not exactly a state secret that Bush has promised to "stay the course" in Iraq on about 10,000 separate occasions.

OK, I exaggerate, but he's definitely promised to "stay the course" on at least several dozen occasions, a fact that you and I and a million bloggers can prove in about three seconds flat … thanks to The Google. Try it! On the White House website, plug "stay the course" into the search toolbar. I got 181 hits. Gotcha, W! The Google comes back to bite you!...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-brooks27oct27,0,6790811.column?track=mostemailedlink

[FSogol]

1. I'm kind of disappointed that no one has made a "The Google" page. n/t

[uppityperson]

2. I got 157, here's ones by Mr.bush, not snowjob/cheney/laura

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061011-5.html
10/11/06
"And I think the characterization of "let's stay the course" is about a quarter right. Stay the course means keep doing what you're doing. My attitude is, don't do what you're doing if it's not working; change. Stay the course also means don't leave before the job is done. And that's -- we're going to get the job done in Iraq. And it's important that we do get the job done in Iraq."


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060830-10.html
8/30/06
"We will stay the course, we will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle of the 21st century."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060711-11.html
7/11/06
"We're not going to lose in Iraq. As a matter of fact, we will win in Iraq so long as we stay the course."

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Looks like you're a better The Googler than Ms. Brooks! nt