Google? Biased? Naaahhhh.
Ok, so a comment here during a conversation about a stupid leftist art exhibit that everyone ignored got me to wondering the origin of the phrase “… that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” So I went to my friendly neightborhood google, and typed “fascism is about to fall on america” and hit search. One link to a comment on a blog where the quote is not attributed, and all the rest of the links on the first page to either truthers, Bush-bashers, or America-haters. So I go to Ask, and type the same thing. The fucking first link (which is a link to google, so it’s a sponsored link, that ISN’T MARKED AS SUCH) IS TO A FUCKING MOONBAT TRUTHER SITE. But I DID (after adding “lands on europe”) a link to Volokh where he excerpts a Tom Wolfe book.
Turns out it was a French socialist writer named Jean-François Revel who said it.
But you’d have a hard time finding that out if you asked Google.
As an aside - I don’t know that the search results themselves reflect a bias on Google’s part, or a bias on the internet towards the interlinking of the moonbat, truther, and broader anti-American communities. But the sponsored result? Come on.
(hat time: Instapundit. Who started this whole thing by linking Althouse.)
