"Miserable Failure"

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[Rebelbase]

Google the term "miserable failure" and look at the second link.

Methinks there is a liberal activist in the White House IT department.

[general_re]

So now the name of the game is to fight fire with fire. I suggest that we get a bunch of freepers with webpages - your FR profile page will do nicely - to create a link to this blog author. One called "drooling moron" or something ;)

[Prodigal Son]

Which site is it in particular that you are referring to? The second return for me was the Atlantic online article.

[general_re]

Like so: Drooling moron.

[palmer]

Looks like that's not the first of Don Waller's tricks if he is the same Don Waller who cofounded "take back the media".

[Rebelbase]

Open the google link at the top of the post. The look at the 2nd link down.

[arete]

Now that's funny.

[epluribus_2]

maybe a redirecting link for miserable failure to Tom Daschle?

[hellinahandcart]

We need to think bigger than that, much much bigger. Who cares about graymatterwanted.con?

Let's do Bill and Hillary and Howard Dean and Wesley Clark and...oh, everybody.

Maureen Down and Mark Morford and Robert Fisk and...

[Mo1]

Isn't that's special .. nice catch

[Prodigal Son]

The second return for me is still Atlantic unbound (or online or whatever it is). But I note that someone else has already sorted out how this was made to happen. The links on that blog point to the White House site, but the wordage of the links are "miserable failure".

If we wanted to, we could do the same for Bill Clinton, as someone noted, by linking the words miserable failure to Bill Clinton's website (if he has one).

[general_re]

Well, there's no reason to limit yourself - you can play this same game with anyone. One link for this drooling moron, another for Hillary, yet another for Dean, et cetera. The key is just getting a bunch of people to do it along with you - the more links that exist like that, the higher your target will appear in Google's search results.

[general_re]

I've been hunting around a bit to see who authored this thing, but I can't find it - where do you see that?

[JesseHousman]

Here's the second link:

Politics & Prose | by Jack Beatty "A Miserable Failure" Will Bush be re-elected? Only if voters wittingly ignore his long list of failures while in office ..... With one phrase Dick Gephardt has defined the issue to be decided next November. Can a "miserable failure" of a president win re-election? Bush's victory would testify to a civic failure more dangerous to the American future than any policies implemented or continued during a second Bush term. A majority would have demonstrated that democratic accountability is finished. That you can fail in everything and still be re-elected president.

What a cart load of cow manure! This is one of many reasons I never read the Atlantic.

[Prodigal Son]

Matter of fact, I think I'll do that now as general re has:

Miserable failure

[palmer]

I did a whois on blah3.com and then googled Don Waller. Whois results:

Waller, Don (BLAH9-DOM)
Channel21 Productions, Inc.
565 Route 25A
Miller Place,, NY 11764
US

[steveegg]

Using your logic we should be able to get Hillary Clinton's bio page to come up as "beast" & "witch" "anti-Christ" to name a few

Google realizes this, and their bots are (probably) smart enough to deny this kind of false advertising for "their kind of politician".

[general_re]

We need a game plan, so that as many people as possible will have the necessary links in as many places as possible. I'm open to suggestions as to targets and link text...

[Prodigal Son]

Here's some more of your answer here:

http://mithras.blogs.com/blog/2003/12/miserable_failu.html

Looks like there's been a concerted effort. We could do the same.

[general_re]

Ah ha - gotcha. If you just go to the domain www.blah3.com, it automatically redirects you to the blog, so I think we can infer that the blogger and the domain owner are one and the same, or at least closely related.

[Prodigal Son]

Aye, a game plan is good. We'd need to know what search terms we wanted to target and which website we wanted it to show up on. I googled "Bill Clinton Bio" (without quotations) and got that ABC site. So that's the most relevent return for BC's Bio.

I'm like you, I think a game plan is better than to start doing it willy nilly. Free Republic has thousands of pages. If we all got together on this we could definitely make it happen.