The American Spectator

Wayne | 8.7.11 @ 12:08AM

Bing is better anyway, and the next batch of search engines will be far superior. Google is quickly becoming like Yahoo.

beebop| 8.7.11 @ 9:12AM

You guys said not one word about Betty Ford. Guess she was tooooo liberal for you as the wife of a Republican? Your outrage is a little too selective for me.

Clint| 8.7.11 @ 1:30PM

Betty Ford was a great entertainer & a great President.

Publius| 8.7.11 @ 1:54PM

So you see anti-Republican bias in Google, beebop? I agree completely.

Fact check though: The 100th Anniversary of Mrs. Ford's birth won't occur until 2018.

Aaron Goldstein| 8.7.11 @ 5:49PM

You might wish to check out the following:

http://spectator.org/blog/2011.....y-ford-rip

beebop| 8.7.11 @ 7:58PM

Thank you for the link. I checked this site several times in the 48 hours immediately following her death and must have missed this.

Max| 8.7.11 @ 1:11PM

We should regulate who corporations can choose to honor.

Gary| 8.7.11 @ 2:27PM

I'm sorry, but are you seriously upset over what a private corporation chooses to do on their own property that no one is forced to visit? Do you really want to regulate the behavior of a corporation? How socialist.

Bullseyed| 8.8.11 @ 1:34PM

Yep. The post says the government should shoot dead the members of the Google board and take all of their money.

Oh wait, no, it says corporations have to answer to their investors and customers if they wish to continue receiving investment and business.

Derek Tyler| 8.7.11 @ 2:50PM

Thank you Aaron, for speaking my mind. They were my thoughts exactly, yesterday, when I saw the doodle.

Frankly, I'm still angry though Reagan's 100th birthday was several months ago.

Then again, I'm glad that Reagan still burns the left's arse as he does. And we will continue to give them the same.

Thank you for posting the link: a breath of fresh air, vintage.

Milpundit| 8.7.11 @ 2:54PM

So true. It always bugged me that Google could also honor Les Paul, but not the men who fought on Normandy.

Normy| 8.7.11 @ 4:12PM

Well, to be fair, Google was more interested in honoring someon who was intentionally funny, so...

Matt| 8.7.11 @ 4:51PM

If you don't like it, don't use Google.

Drew Curtis| 8.7.11 @ 4:53PM

It's simple if you look at all the pieces. Ricky was Cuban, home of Castro and Communism. Lucy was an uppity feminist always trying to get jobs to support her commie husband's satanist music career. The Obama campaign started out used Google groups and gmail to run their campaign which was funded by known communist groups like ACORN and La Raza.

Cyrus| 8.7.11 @ 8:51PM

You might be on to something. Does anyone know what the song "Babalu" was actually about???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalu_(song)

How did that get past the censors in the 1950s?!

JimH| 8.8.11 @ 8:03AM

And how about Fred and Ethel as oppressor of the proletariat landlords?

Eric Jacobson| 8.7.11 @ 6:00PM

Get over yourselves. It doesn't mean anything. And please: Quit putting Reagan on a pedestal. He wasn't that great...

good wife| 8.7.11 @ 9:57PM

Some of us basically blame Reagan for destroying the middle class in the United States -- why would that be celebrated?

Steve| 8.7.11 @ 6:14PM

Did you know Lucille Ball voted for Obama.

/She voted for Reagan too.

LOL| 8.7.11 @ 6:15PM

Um, did anyone happen to think that google, just maybe likes to pay tribute to innovators/entertainers? I mean don't get wrong, it is not that Reagan isn't worthy of being honored, every president deserves that regardless. I just think that it is easier to come up with fun cutesy things with things like music and an iconic figure like Lucy. They are much easier to honor because they have things about them that they can easily incorporate into the google logo. And are not controversial.

Not to mention, everytime google does anything the blogosphere works itself into a tizzy about it and tries to politicize its actions. It is just silly they are a private corporation and are maybe huge Lucy fans, who is a worldwide iconic comedian and yes feminist because she wanted to be on tv and be a woman at the same time.

I have to agree selective outrage against a corporation for choosing to honor an iconic tv star is OBVIOUSLY a slap in the face to President Reagan. If they choose to honor the lunar landing is that a slap in his face too since Kennedy started the program?

I mean google operates in more places than just America and if they want to be cute, funny, and light-hearted rather than seriously honoring our presidents, good for them they have that right as a corporation in America. Send them a complaint letter that you would have liked to have seen them honor Reagan on his birthday and let it go. It is not like they can go back and time and change it for you.

Paul Dockery| 8.7.11 @ 7:31PM

Politicizing this is a signature of a small, scared mind. When did the right become so sensitive and fragile?

beebop| 8.7.11 @ 8:01PM

Thank you so much for this much needed Sunday evening laugh. What little is left in what I once thought would be a decent retirement, stands to disappear. And all the while? John Kerry is insulting American voters. Imagine that.

Clint| 8.8.11 @ 6:25AM

Apparently, John Kerry Thinks We Tea Party Terrorists Attacked His Swiftboat In Vietnam Too.

The Tea Party Rebellion Ramps Up For the 2012 Elections.

Carpe Diem.

Bob K.| 8.8.11 @ 6:52AM

Learn a little about headlines, Aaron, and you could go places!

For instance:

"Google Diddles With It's Doodle!"

Karl| 8.8.11 @ 7:53AM

You're really upset about this?
Really?
REALLY?
Do you also get incensed at "Top 10" websites that don't have your favorite movie? Because it's not a personal insult that they left your personal favorite off.

Matt| 8.8.11 @ 10:19AM

File this one under, "I haven't gotten my panties in a wad about THE LIBRULS yet today, so let's make up some random crap to get all mad about."

Occam's Tool| 8.8.11 @ 11:34AM

Vermin never recognize the truly great. Google overlooking RR is to be expected.

Whistle| 8.8.11 @ 11:53AM

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