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Of All the Photos of Rush, This is the One Google Chose
Google/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/05/2006 11:45:43 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

July 5, 2006

Don't know if it will still be up when you go there, but when I went to Google News Top Stories at about 2:25 PM EDT, this is the photo of Rush Limbaugh that I found, accompanying the various stories reporting that Rush will not be charged in the discovery, when recently going through customs, of a prescription medicine not in his name.

NewsBusters Noel Sheppard has written about Google's censorship of conservative web sites, and others have accused it of a liberal slant in its selection of stories.

Google claims that its story selection is computer-generated. Hard to believe the same holds true for its photos.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Humor; Politics; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bias; business; computers; corruption; google; googlenews; googlepictures; googlescensorship; googlestories; humor; limbaugh; media; politics; rush; rushlimbaugh; viagra; weird
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Here is the photo Google chose to accompany the stories on Rush's exoneration:


1 posted on 07/05/2006 11:45:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Google/NewsBusters anti-Rush bias ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 07/05/2006 11:46:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wouldn't that be an appropriate facial expression if someone just had their Viagra confiscated?


3 posted on 07/05/2006 11:47:12 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Just another evil conservative)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Computer generated? GIVE ME A BREAK.


4 posted on 07/05/2006 11:49:08 AM PDT by Hildy (Change calls the tune we dance to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In fairness to AP, it needs to be reported that they put up a real nice picture of him here.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_en_ot/limbaugh_viagra


5 posted on 07/05/2006 11:50:09 AM PDT by rwa265
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Don't know if Google reads NewsBusters/FR but they've now changed the picture!


6 posted on 07/05/2006 11:50:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

LOL. Rush just discussed the situation at some length and with considerable candor.


7 posted on 07/05/2006 11:51:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Different Conservative:

Do a Google search for "it's a man baby" (you need the quotes, of course) and click on "images" to see a screen of pictures that are tagged with that phrase.

First picture up is Ann Coulter (highlighting her Adam's Apple).

8 posted on 07/05/2006 11:53:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Google claims that its story selection is computer-generated. Hard to believe the same holds true for its photos.

The photos come from the associated linked new stories.

What news source chose that photo?

9 posted on 07/05/2006 11:54:02 AM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The entire situation is a scary reminder of the police state that citizens can get embroiled in at a moments notice. I still wonder if I would get 'busted' were I to be found to have some of those drug samples that doctors can hand out. They don't have a patients name on them.


10 posted on 07/05/2006 11:55:08 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Just another evil conservative)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

At least it demonstrates who is petty. Our friend Rush will end up with the last laugh, as usual, while the leftist kooks play their high school games.


11 posted on 07/05/2006 11:55:22 AM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: tallhappy

It was from a site called TMZ.com. Here's the link to their story:

http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/05/rush-cleared-on-viagra-case/


12 posted on 07/05/2006 11:56:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

13 posted on 07/05/2006 11:57:29 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ClearCase_guy
First picture up is Ann Coulter (highlighting her Adam's Apple).

Yikes...there are some people out there with WAY to much time their hands.

Oh, and by the way, if you mention Ann, you gotta post a pic...dem's da rulz!


14 posted on 07/05/2006 11:58:30 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Just another evil conservative)
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To: ClearCase_guy

How does an Adam's Apple works anyway?


15 posted on 07/05/2006 12:01:58 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
 

Merry Christmas (apparently not) from the Google Grinches:

Happy Holidays from Google

 

 

16 posted on 07/05/2006 12:03:00 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Rush has talked now about the situation. He said that the woman who fingered him seemed proud of her catch.

He said he has cancelled his trip to Spain and will not be travelling out of the country until period associated with that other case is over (like 18 months).

He says that he must as a precaution against the tricks the left may try to pull by 2008.

Welcome to the USSA. Political persecution er prosecution.


17 posted on 07/05/2006 12:12:44 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers

When Rush was talking with the security personal, who held up a white paper bag and asked him what was in there, he said "cufflinks from President Bush, I had dinner with him last week along with YOUR boss..." and named the security director.


18 posted on 07/05/2006 12:14:30 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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To: Killborn

"The structure of the larynx is mainly composed of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscle. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the prominence of the Adam's apple in humans. The inferior horns (protrusions at the bottom rear of the thyroid cartilage) of the thyroid cartilage rest on a ring-shaped cartilage called the cricoid cartilage which connects the larynx to the trachea. The cricoid cartilage resembles a signet ring (narrow in front, broader in back). Above the larynx is the hyoid bone, by which (via various muscles and ligaments) the larynx is connected to the jaw and skull. These muscles move the larynx during swallowing. The hyoid is the only floating bone in the body; it is not 'attached' to any other bones. The epiglottis is another cartilage that extents upwards behind the back of the tongue and projects down through the hyoid bone. It connects to the thyroid cartilage just beneath the thyroid notch (the Adam's apple)."


19 posted on 07/05/2006 12:14:37 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rush had to wait until after the case was dismissed before going on record against his accusers.


20 posted on 07/05/2006 12:15:21 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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