I get discriminated against by Google…

As Michelle Malkin found out a little while back, some advertisers do not offer advertising to Conservatives.

That’s right people, Google actually denied me advertising on their “Google Affiliate Network” advertising system. 

What happened is, a little while back, I received an e-mail from Google Adsense, letting me know that Google was retiring it’s referral ads program. For an alternative, the e-mail told me that I could sign up for DoubleClick Performics, which I found out, after that I went over to the signup page, that this company had been bought out, by, of course, Google. So, I thought, “Well, I’m already a member of Google Adsense, I’ll just join up here.”. No such luck. I was denied.

An excellent way of controlling their advertising, however, it is total discrimination against me. Because my Blog is a Conservative Blog, I am being denied.

Here’s the e-mail that I received:

Delivered-To: tpblogeditor@gmail.com
Received: by 10.142.70.19 with SMTP id s19cs5602wfa;
        Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.151.113.5 with SMTP id q5mr11201618ybm.120.1215558116422;
        Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <noreply@performics.com>
Received: from thcppprfrly01.doubleclick.net (thcppprfrly01.doubleclick.net [216.73.92.201])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x72si9830156pyg.26.2008.07.08.16.01.55;
        Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of noreply@performics.com designates 216.73.92.201 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.73.92.201;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of noreply@performics.com designates 216.73.92.201 
As permitted sender) smtp.mail=noreply@performics.com
Received: from thn-lb1-mip3.doubleclick.net (HELO bh1.performics.com) ([10.20.192.23])
  by thcppprfrly01.doubleclick.net with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2008 17:01:51 -0600
Received: from thpfxadmin1.internal (thpfxadmin1 [10.32.0.53])
	by bh1.performics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56486456C1
	for <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>; Tue,  8 Jul 2008 17:01:09 -0600 (MDT)
Received: by thpfxadmin1.internal (Postfix, from userid 2001)
	id 3E35B9D4; Tue,  8 Jul 2008 18:01:09 -0500 (CDT)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_----------=_12155580695531109"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.01 (F2.73; T1.13; A1.60; B3.05; Q3.03)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:01:09 UT
From: affiliatesupport@google.com
Subject: Google Affiliate Network Application Declined
To: tpblogeditor@gmail.com
Message-Id: 20080708230109.3E35B9D4@thpfxadmin1.internal

Dear PoliticalByline,

Thank you for your interest in Google Affiliate Network, formerly DoubleClick Performics. At this time we cannot approve your application. Your application has been reviewed and may have been declined for one or more of the following reasons:

1. We were unable to access and review your site or determine your business model based on the URL or profile information provided.

2. The profile information provided is inconsistent or doesn’t match registered domain information.

3. Your site does not meet our content guidelines, which prohibit the following:

* Violent content, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization

* Pornography, adult, or mature content

* Hacking/cracking content

* Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia

* Excessive profanity

* Gambling or casino-related content

* Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others

4. Your site or business model is generally not a good fit for Google Affiliate Network and our advertiser programs.

Reasons 1 & 2 are the most common reasons for declining applications. If there are updates to your Web site you are welcome to reapply. Please contact us with any questions.

Sincerely,

Google Affiliate Network

I supposed if I had a blog, that advocated the mindless and wholesale killing of unborn babies, or a Blog that advocated the unproven science of Global Warming, or if I had a website that advocated the promiscuous sex of 14 year old girls. That I would be accepted with no problem at all. However, because my website is against all these things, my site is considered a unacceptable website to Google.

I am seriously considering removing ALL of Google’s ads here. I have to think about it. But I intend to let the world know about this.

Not smart Jonah, Not smart at all…

I’m not a politically correct person, not by a long shot.

But I think that this article here, is about is close as one can come to basically saying that, “Obama is just a stupid liberal n****r”, without actually saying it. Attempting to equate a requirement for service, in return for college funding to slavery is not, I repeat, NOT a smart thing to do, seeing the whole climate of this election.

I mean, not agreeing with someones political policy is one thing, but this is another. I have to wonder, would Goldberg have brought up Slavery, if Obama was a White Man?

….and here I thought the Republicans were the party of Anti-Slavery and Anti-Racism.

Others:
Obsidian Wings, Wonkette, Blog of the Moderate Left, Lawyers, Guns and Money, BLACKFIVE, Wake up America, JustOneMinute, Winds of Change.NET, Outside The Beltway, PrestoPundit, Booman Tribune, QandO, Macsmind, Opinion L.A. and pandagon.net and more via Memeorandum

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , ,

Fox News, The village of the Asshats

I never was much of a watcher of the Rupert Mudoch owned Neo-Conservative propaganda machine.

Perhaps this is why.

Quote:

Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. Warning. Much mayhem ahead.

Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.

And if all that stuff doesn’t slow me down and I actually end up writing something, there might be a large hangover: Phone calls full of rebuke for a dependent clause in the third to the last paragraph, a ritual spanking in the blogs with anonymous quotes that sound very familiar, and — if I really hit the jackpot — the specter of my ungainly headshot appearing on one of Fox News’s shows along with some stern copy about what an idiot I am.

Yeeesh, charming people. 😮 🙄

Oh Wait, there’s more:

At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them. Shooting the occasional messenger is baked right into the process.

As crude as that sounds, it works. By blacklisting reporters it does not like, planting stories with friendlies at every turn, Fox News has been living a life beyond consequence for years. Honesty compels me to admit that I have choked a few times at the keyboard when Fox News has come up in a story and it was not absolutely critical to the matter at hand.

But it cuts both ways: Fox News’s amazing coup d’état in the cable news war has very likely been undercovered because the organization is such a handful to deal with. Fox is so busy playing defense — mentioning it in the same story as CNN can be a high crime — that its business and journalism accomplishments don’t get traction and the cable station never seems to attain the legitimacy it so clearly craves.

Yikes, sounds like a McCarthy type mentality, if you ask me. I mean, blackballing people? Wow.

This Gets Better, trust me…. remember the altered Photos that I posted about last week? It turns out, that it is supposedly standard policy to do that, so says Faux Noise. Oh Yes, I am not kidding…

Quote:

The accompanying photographs were heavily altered, although the audience was probably none the wiser. Mr. Reddicliffe looked like the wicked witch after a hard night of drinking, but it was the photo of Mr. Steinberg that stopped traffic when it appeared on the Web at Media Matters side by side with his actual photo. In a technique familiar to students of vintage German propaganda, his ears were pulled out, his teeth splayed apart, his forehead lowered and his nose was widened and enlarged in a way that made him look more like Fagin than the guy I work with. (Mr. Steinberg told me that as a working reporter who covers Fox News, he was not in a position to comment. A spokeswoman said the executive in charge of “Fox and Friends” is on vacation and not available for comment but added that altering photos for humorous effect is a common practice on cable news stations.)

But you have to remember, you are dealing with Fox News here or as I just love to call them; Faux Noise, with those guys, Up is down, Right is left, and George W. Bush is the greatest President, ever. Stop Laughing! I didn’t say that I thought he was.

Again, as I have said a thousand times, in my time as a Political Blogger, I just do not watch Fox News, because, quite frankly, I find it to be an insult to my intelligence. I mean, the whole damn Network is a giant propaganda machine. It’s humorous, but borderline insane. But then again, are not most Neo-Conservatives?

Others:
The Carpetbagger Report, Think Progress, News Hounds, TVNewser, Philly.com and Political Punch

Technorati Tags: , , , , , ,

Please, give Jesse Helms a break…

You know, I am about sick and damn tired of reading the ongoing rambling about Senator Jesse Helms. The man is dead, let’s move on, please. I mean, let’s show a little respect of his family.

it just goes to show you the true colors of the New York Times and The Washington Post, especially of WaPo for republishing an article, slamming helms as a racist, the day he retired from the Senate.

As far as I am concerned, The Washington Post is nothing more than a shill for the Commie Liberals who hate everything that we Conservatives stand for in America.

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

It's about time Bozell!

Well, it’s about time!

Quote:

CNSNews.com will launch its new Web site on Tuesday, July 8, with a fresh look, more stories, videos, photos, and reader comments. Check out the new www.cnsnews.com on Tuesday, July 8.- CNSNews.com Launches New Web Site on Tuesday, July 8 — 07/04/2008

I’ve always said that Brent Bozell needed to update that 1990’s era website of theirs. Hopefully, it will rival Media Matters for America’s site, embeddable video clips, nice banners or buttons for Blogs. It has to be totally web 2.0 friendly. Now if they could just get the MRC site updated too, they’d be in good shape.

I can’t wait to see it.

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

What the heck was John McCain thinking when he allowed THIS to happen?

Oy…. Juan McCain’s vast expanse of Blatant Stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

Via ABC News Political Radar:

ABC News has learned that Sen. John McCain’s campaign has hired Mike DuHaime as political director, the first new hire by Steve Schmidt in his capacity as the person in charge of day-to-day campaign operations.

DuHaime had served as a senior advisor for political operations at the Republican National Commitee since March, but now he will head up the political team from within the McCain operation.

The move comes as the McCain campaign essentially relaunches its general election effort, after weeks of complaints in Republicans circles that McCain, R-Ariz., has been slow to find his footing against Illinois Democrat Sen. Barack Obama.

DuHaime most recently managed the failed presidential campaign of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. DuHaime brings years of experience, organizing on behalf of Republicans at the state and local level, to the job. Notably, DuHaime served as political director of the Republican National Committee, and as regional political director for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in 2004.

I hate to say it, but that was a big time boneheaded move and the Liberals are going to nail him on it, big time.

Claudia over at Poligazette puts it much better, than I can:

What do you do when you’re a Republican in a terrible year for Republicans, and when fellow Republicans have been complaining for weeks that you haven’t found your voice against your opponent? Well you do a shake-up of course. And who do you bring in to be your new political director? Well a former senior advisor to one of the most disasterously missmanaged campaigns this season, of course!

Ha! So true. No wonder some republicans are buying these stickers like mad:

Technorati Tags: , , , , ,

Afghanistan officials claim US air strikes killed civilians

You know, I’m just going to say it….

Quote:

Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths — Afghan officials: US missiles killed 27 civilians – Yahoo! News

Two Words….

Tough shit
.

Why would I say that? I’ll tell you why. The way I see it, if your country knowingly harbors a terrorist leader and his group of thugs, that was responsible for killing 2,974 of our people. Then I say if some of your people, who happened to be in the area, when our forces happen to be taking out a group of terrorists. That’s just too damn bad.

Does that make me a chicken hawk? Hell No. What that makes me is someone who supports our Military, it makes me a Nationalist, who loves America and happens to believe in the doctrine of “what comes around, goes around” and of “If you play with mud, you’re gonna get dirty”.

Some of us, have not forgotten, at all, what happened in New York, and at the Pentegon on 9/11.

Others: BLACKFIVE, Sweetness & Light

Technorati Tags: , , , ,

Gotta love our Liberal Main Stream Media

It seems that according to various British media sources, the United States scored a major victory in Iraq.

Too bad the vast majority of Americans, unless they read blogs, won’t hear about it. That’s because the United States Liberal controlled media is too busy trying to tell Americans that the war in Iraq is lost and that we’re losing, and so forth.

What further proof do we need, that the Liberals in this country, hate America, Our Military and the values that we conservatives hold dear?

It is no wonder that places like the New York Times and other dead wood media sources are losing money left and right and will eventually be put out of business.

The Silence of these media sources speak volumes to me.

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Kathy, lay off the booze on the Holidays, Please.

Heh…. Someone’s nuts. 😉

A totally crazy Saturday-morning thought: Wouldn’t George W. Bush make an awesome high-school government teacher? Wouldn’t it be something if his post-presidential life would up being that kind of post-service service? How’s that for a model? Who needs Harvard visiting chairs and high-end lectures? How about Crawford High? (Or wherever?) Reach out and touch the young before they are jaded, or break them of the cynicism pop culture and possibly their parents have passed down to them. Whatever you think of President Bush, he’s a likable guy in love with his country with some history and experience to share.Re: Civics by Kathryn Jean Lopez (via The Corner on National Review Online)

Not sure what’s more funny here. The original entry or the many humorous replies. 😆

Crazy?!?!? Ya Think? 😮 Someone, please, think of the kids! 😉

Others:
Shakesville, Once Upon a Time, Matthew Yglesias, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Booman Tribune, TBogg, Sadly, No! and Balkinization

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , ,