The Industry Standard - Picture This: McCain's VP pick beats Obama's speech on Google Hot Trends - Comments

what do you think about the

ami — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:52:54 -0400

what do you think about the war, budget ,trade, gun control?

Sabrina, You do mean this

JohnBramble — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:30:56 -0400

Sabrina,

You do mean this Jeremiah Wright ?? Correct ??
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4443788

Quite frankly I do not believe in Judgement Day however, to say that someone who believes in God and believes in Judgement Day is worse than Jeremiah Wrights speeches about hate.

You may need to step back and re-look at these values again.

She took the easy road last

Sabrina — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:47:19 -0400

She took the easy road last night -- all she (and all of the speakers last night) do is fling ad-hominem attacks at Obama and Biden, without offering any substantive solutions to the many problems our country faces. I guess I can't blame her, because she has got to deflect attention from her extremist views which should be extremely scary to those who love our Country.

Unfortunately, the Corporate Media is so focused on ridiculous issues like her pregnant daughter and Down's Syndrome baby that they will never drill into her about anything of consequence.

But since we're playing that game, did you know Sarah was sitting in church (just a couple weeks ago) when guest speaker David Brickner said:

"Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can't miss it."

Where's the outrage? This is far worse than anything Jeremiah Wright said, yet we all heard about Jeremiah Wright for weeks on end!

And this is just the tip of the iceberg ...

Oh Mark, you're just jealous

Suzy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:34:05 -0400

Oh Mark, you're just jealous and frustrated because she has taken Obama's "Rock Star" status from him. She stands for everything that is right and good!! I LOVE IT!! Obama is in serious trouble!! Her speech last night was amazing. She is amazing and she's going to be the next Vice-President of the United States!

You also have to figure that

Mark Kraft — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:24:11 -0400

You also have to figure that many of those who were looking up Ms. Palin were Obama supporters and people in the press, trying to find out her weaknesses, or simply find out who she was in the first place.

All this shows is that voters don't know Sarah Palin... but judging from what I have been seeing online today, voters are going to rapidly learn far more about her... about her attempts to deceive the Alaskan people as to her involvement in personally-motivated firings, her close ties to indicted Senator Ted Stevens, her support and flip-flopping for the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere", her attempts to force kids to learn creationism, her radical anti-choice stance, and support of forcing women who are raped or whose lives are at risk to carry a baby full-term, her ties to big oil and mining interests, her weak environmental record and opposition to legislation designed to provide safeguards preventing the mercury and heavy metal pollution of America's biggest sockeye salmon hatchery...

People searched on Sarah Palin... and found out a lot of things that John McCain would rather that they didn't know.

Love, Love, Love it! Great

Sharon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:35:44 -0400

Love, Love, Love it! Great suprise and great selection. Finally something to get excited about in this boring race!

About 15 minutes after

Ian Lamont — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:28:57 -0400

About 15 minutes after posting this, I saw alerts spring up that Palin has indeed been picked as the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard

Is this really surprising?

Setay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:09:25 -0400

Is this really surprising? Information about Palin or McCain's VP choice is something that you almost have to Google. If you wanted to learn about Obama's speech or watch it, you would merely go to any major news site. If someone doesn't know that, then he probably can't use Google.

Picture This: McCain's VP pick beats Obama's speech on Google Hot Trends

Ian Lamont — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:47:32 -0400

The morning after a major speech by the Democrat's presidential nominee, I expected Google's Hot Trends to be filled with Obama-related search terms, as people who missed the speech searched for information. Not so. The list was dominated by search terms relating to Republican John McCain's as-yet-unnamed VP pick, with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin taking up seven of the top 10 spots ("palin," "sarah palin", "governor of alaska," "mccain palin", etc.). Obama first showed at #31, with "obama speech transcript":

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