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Colin Flaherty: 'Can't anybody here play this game?': Google skates again.
americanthinker.com ^ | Colin Flaherty

Posted on 12/12/2018 3:25:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Casey Stengel would have spotted this bogus play, the so-called Google congressional hearing, from the cheap seats. "Can't anybody here play this game?" the famous baseball manager would have asked the Republicans hemming and hawing and ignoring their way through the biggest existential threat to conservatives ever.

Apparently not, Casey.

The scene was the House Judiciary Committee. Waiting to testify was the CEO of Google, where for at least the last five years, conservatives have been attacked, marginalized, removed, defamed, harassed, and demonetized – all to the sounds of glee if not ecstasy from purple-haired Google engineers.

At least the ranking Democrat – soon to be chair – Congressman Nadler, figured it out right away. He attacked conservatives for objecting to Google's heavy-handed and deceptive treatment as "conspiracy theorists."

Nadler knew that the real issue was Google's hostility to conservatives and how the search engine titan is working to remove them from the public stage.

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This is too easy for the Democrats. Embarrassingly easy.

They are playing the game as best they can. Republicans don't even know they are up to bat. Or how often they have already struck out.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antitrust; colinflaherty; google; googlehearing
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To: RoosterRedux
Just another reminder that competent people do not run for office - they go into private industry. The clear impression was that the collective IQ of all of the political hacks questioning Pichai didn't add up to his - he just sat there and tried not to roll his eyes as they embarrassed themselves.

Actually, Jim Jordan did do a decent job in questioning the Google CEO. But overall, it was an embarrassing performance by both Republicans and Democrats. One Democrat kept asking him if his phone was tracking him at that moment, and acted frustrated when the Google CEO said he'd have to look at his phone to determine that - the Congressman was too clueless to realize that he has the option to enable or disable tracking himself and wasted valuable time asking the CEO of one of the biggest companies on earth to provide him with tech support.


21 posted on 12/12/2018 5:02:31 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: wastoute

>“...if you can keep it...”. Looks like we failed.

MANY, many moons ago I’m afraid


22 posted on 12/12/2018 5:08:17 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Liz

NOW, Google ‘idiot’ and get the Donald

Nearly two decades ago you googled ‘failure’ and got Dubya !

Nah, not much change no matter who is in charge I guess....

Duck Duck now and the future....


23 posted on 12/12/2018 5:21:53 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: RoosterRedux

Google has more information on elected officials than Hillary Clinton did with FBI files. Nothing is happening with them.


24 posted on 12/12/2018 5:33:34 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Truth29
<>"Spot on! The Uniparty/deep state rolls on. They don't intend to allow those unwashed, uppity voters to stop them. It is Trump and us..."<>

It is the Monarchy v. the Mob and the Mob has chosen Trump as their champion.

25 posted on 12/12/2018 5:35:59 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: rlmorel

It’s a sure path to being suicided.


26 posted on 12/12/2018 5:42:42 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Truth29

They are not after Trump in the end, in the end they are really after you. They’ll never forgive you for electing him. It was all prepared, she wasn’t supposed to lose.


27 posted on 12/12/2018 6:06:54 AM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - rever.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
"They are deliberately throwing the game..."

I believe you are exactly correct. A large portion of the GOP is nothing more than a smoke screen for the Uni-Party. They have just as much to fear from an actual functioning news source as the Democrats. (#Never Trumpers) Don't count on any meaningful help from that direction. Trump needs to take this head on in the next two years.

28 posted on 12/12/2018 6:08:32 AM PST by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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To: Rockingham
"An old friend with years of experience as a House GOP staffer habitually refers to the House GOP members as “the rabbits” for their lack of courage."

Then they need a dose of Watership Down.

29 posted on 12/12/2018 6:15:51 AM PST by Truth29
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To: RoosterRedux

Not a 100% bad day for Republicans, at least those supporting the President.

The pompous Gerry Nadler scored an amazing self goal by asking the Google CEO how much the Russians spent advertising on their platform in 2016?

The answer, which Nadler stupidly asked him to repeat was...$4,700.


30 posted on 12/12/2018 6:16:29 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Truth29

Trump and an aroused electorate may yet whip the House GOP into shape.


31 posted on 12/12/2018 6:26:52 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: All

DC _government_; lost in (evil) space.


32 posted on 12/12/2018 7:20:42 AM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: wintertime

Yep, that too.


33 posted on 12/12/2018 7:29:07 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Its because most congresscritters are lawyer and techno-ignoramuses. So that plays right into Google’s and is this case the Left’s! hands. Since Google is carrying the Left’s censorship & propaganda water they’ll blindly defend Google.


34 posted on 12/12/2018 8:04:44 AM PST by Reily
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