A New Election Campaign Tactic: Google Bombing

[mandy]

If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for “Jon Kyl,” the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly.

Mr. Kyl “has spent his time in Washington kowtowing to the Bush administration and the radical right,” the article suggests, “very often to the detriment of Arizonans.”

Searching Google for “Peter King,” the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined “King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.”...

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/pol...1319515200&en=cf9c1ab0c65c62b2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[BellisimaJ.]

The Repugnant Republicans are soooooooooo angelic by contrast. NOT.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...z=view_all&address=364x2487403

[BellisimaJ.]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4297464.html

Pentagon memo reveals launch of new PR war
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.

In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said new teams of people will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and "correct the record."

The memo describes an operation modeled after a political campaign — such as that made famous by Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential race — calling for a "Rapid Response" section for quickly answering opponents' assertions.

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Ruff said today that the reorganization, spearheaded by Smith, will help the department "set the record straight" and provide accurate, timely information.

He denied that the effort was set up to respond to the eroding public support for the war, or that it was aimed at helping in next week's elections. He also said he would not call it an "information operations" program, which generally refers to a propaganda-type campaign.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...z=view_all&address=102x2587325

[regic]

He denied that the effort was set up to respond to the eroding public support for the war, or that it was aimed at helping in next week's elections

[BellisimaJ.]

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He denied that the effort was set up to respond to the eroding public support for the war, or that it was aimed at helping in next week's elections

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