Posted on 04/02/2013 7:58:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz
On March 31st, Easter Sunday, Google posted as their logo-based 'Doodle' a picture honoring far-left union activist Cesar Chavez. This was done instead of honoring the most important Christian holiday in America. Predictably, this led to a large and vocal backlash of Christians and conservatives who were angered that Google paraded out a leftwing icon, rather than acknowledge their Holy Day.
The next day, on April Fools Day, I posted this thread, "Google Apologizes to Christians For Easter Cesar Chavez 'Doodle'". Sadly, it was an April Fools Joke.... and while I was delighted at the number of people I fooled, I was also appalled at Google's REAL response to the uproar, in which they defended the decision by saying it reserves the spot for historical figures and events... implying, of course, that Jesus was not historically relevant and that Easter was not a noteworthy event.
Said Samantha Smith, Google spokeschick, “We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it's difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site, and Sometimes for a given date, we feature an historical event or influential figure that we haven't in the past.” Yet, an exhaustive search of Google Doodles does not show any honoring of the historical, influential figure known as Jesus of Nazareth, so one is left to wonder how Samantha Smith's statement has any relation to this controversy.
The April Fools joke thread had a noteworthy, albiet fictional, line: The [apology] appeared to appease some high-profile Christian figures. "I'm not much of a fan of Google," remarked Cardinal Timothy Dolan, "but I appreciate their apology. It shows a sense of respect for Catholicism and Christianity."
If only. If only Google had showed the slightest modicum of respect for Christianity. Instead, they chose to shove their leftwing politics in the public's faces. As Malkin's Twitchy website put it, "Google’s Doodle logo overlords sure have a way of rubbing their politics in people’s noses.”
What started as an April Fools joke, became a demonstration of the uberpoliticking performed by the leftwing Google, and their Obama-esque 'doubling down' when caught in a huge poltical gaffe.
Check it out by going to the Bing page and click on previous photo.
You can almost HEAR the announcer continuing: "... you know. The ONE YOU IGNORED, GOOGLE...."
LOL. Thanks, dude.
It's a fair portrayal of the Easter story and people could choose which story to believe.
How does an Android smartphone owner replace Google as their browser?
I wanna vote with my pocketbook!
I use Bing as my primary search engine, although it too is far from perfect—even though google admittedly is a more thorough search engine.
On another matter, thank God it’s April 2. Some of these jokes are hard to weed out!
Ah yes, just as redundancy is the soul of repetitiveness.
Gee, I thought Google was honoring Chavez for his principled opposition to illegal aliens, and the practice of importing low-skilled workers to drive down labor costs.
Maybe Google is going to celebrate Pascha/Easter according to the Russian Orthodox calendar. They did mark the 450th anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.
Said Samantha Smith, Google spokeschick, “We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site, and Sometimes for a given date, we feature an historical event or influential figure that we haven’t in the past.”
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But as Nana’s birthday has yet to be honored
so when will that happen ???
Eh ???
Well done sir, well done!
This is the real April Fools Day.
Nice try Laz but no cigar!
If they’d decided to honor Easter, I doubt they would have honored the Lord. It probably would have been a bunny and a basket of eggs.
I checked it out. It says, "Enhanced by Google." I assume that means Startpage interfaces with Google for a more comprehensive search?
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Fire Fox.
Stupid and insulting....but typical.
There were cupcakes there on my birthday! :)
Startpage sneaks into Google, gets your answers for you, and returns them to you with no strings attached from Google. It’s a private search engine, and Google never knows it was you.
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