How much is the media ignoring Elizabeth Warren’s problems?
On what should be a common news topic for the Elizabeth Warren/Scott Brown Massachusetts Senate race, the low-traffic Walkerville Weekly Reader comes up second.
Lately I’ve been noticing that my very low-traffic1 satire web site, the Walkerville Weekly Reader, has been getting a lot of hits for searches on common Elizabeth Warren topics. Usually I only get hits for odd search juxtapositions and for image searches. In yesterday’s logs, for example, I got hits for “al gore alcohol” because as far as I know no one is really accusing Gore of having an alcohol problem.2 I also got hits for “I love Ann photo”, I suspect because I label my photos better than most sites.
But I also got hits for the followings searches:
- elizabeth warren lawyer representing insurance company
- elizabeth warren and travelers insurance
- did eluzabeth warren pass the bar exam?3
- elizabeth warren and passing law exam
None of those are odd juxtapositions or image searches. They’re legitimate news searches, people trying to find information about real issues with Elizabeth Warren’s status as a lawyer in Massachusetts and her actions representing Travelers Insurance and other insurance companies.
Those are important issues in the Massachusetts senate election. I should be somewhere around page seventy-seven for those searches, but for all except the second, I’m on page one.4 For the first search, I’m the eighth link in the list. For the third, I’m the seventh link, and for the fourth, I’m number two, beat out only by a New York Times keyword page that mentions the Dodd-Frank law passing.
If it were Scott Brown pretending to be Cherokee, potentially pretending to be a lawyer, and fighting to keep insurance companies from having to pay out on claims, there’s no way my little site would get such high rankings.
In response to Election 2012: The Long Hot Summer: For election blogging outside of California.
Yesterday’s log recorded 860 page hits, and that includes robots. Three hundred and sixty-six of those were from the same IP address, of a server hosted in the United Kingdom that is also in a lot of blacklists.
↑Other than ethanol.
↑Note that Google auto-fixes the spelling of “Eluzabeth” to “Elizabeth”, nor do I have that misspelling on my page, so it isn’t the uncommon word that brings me to the top of the search results for that search.
↑For the second search, “elizabeth warren and travelers insurance”, I’m on page three.
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- Elizabeth Warren fights to deregulate insurance lawyers
- “I’m not like other Democrats who push regulations on other people then ignore the law themselves,” said Warren. “I believe in full deregulation of insurance company lawyers.”
- Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “Warren attempted to deny her role, and referred to a Boston Globe article, but the Globe article supports Brown’s account. The Globe article indicated the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of a bankruptcy case in New York.” “Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.” (Memeorandum thread)
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
More Elizabeth Warren
- Sen. Dick Blumenthal: Gay bars “public health crisis”
- Connecticut Democrat compares massacre to AIDS, says inaction has caused both epidemics.
- Last black ejected from civil rights movement
- White is the new black: a new generation of Democrats bear the white liberal’s burden to save blacks from their own laziness.
- Elizabeth Warren fights to deregulate insurance lawyers
- “I’m not like other Democrats who push regulations on other people then ignore the law themselves,” said Warren. “I believe in full deregulation of insurance company lawyers.”
- Elizabeth Warren decries illegal immigration
- Native American lawyer and Massachusetts senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren charges U.S. corporations with fostering illegal aliens.
More media bias
- The ruling class’s unexpectedly old clothes
- I recently ran across early use of “unexpectedly” for a conservative’s strong economy, referring to the early 1981 market recovery under President Reagan.
- COVID Lessons: Journalistic Delusions and the Madness of Politicians
- COVID-19 was real. The crisis surrounding it was entirely manufactured. Everything we did took a manageable disease and turned it into a killer. And the very worst was believing a media we knew was lying.
- How many fingers, America?
- The Orwellianization of the left continues.
- Has Trump forced the media into a Kobayashi Maru?
- The Kobayashi Maru is that the media wants to be able to continue lying and be believed. People don’t distrust them because of Trump. People distrust them because they keep lying. It is a self-caused problem.
- The institutional forgetfulness of the press
- We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.
- 34 more pages with the topic media bias, and other related pages
More What If Bush Done It?
- Politico: Bush should have started war July 2001
- President George W. Bush ignored critical advice from intelligence advisor five months into presidency: “We need to go on a wartime footing now!”
- Your devil has no clothes
- The others of the extreme left and right have different qualities. The others of the left—Sarah Palin, the Koch brothers, Brendan Eich, for example—voice opinions, but are otherwise fairly unobtrusive politically. They are people who would not have been an issue if they weren’t personally made an issue by the vanguard of the left.
- Media debate: Bush or Romney at fault for economy?
- As the United States economy stalls again, newspaper and television reporters debate the important question: who is at fault?
- Bureaucracy or conspiracy?
- Is the federal government involved in a conspiracy to further the gulf oil spill?
- Only if you’re paying them
- If I lost my job, I’d be paying less in taxes, too.
- Two more pages with the topic What If Bush Done It?, and other related pages
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