When Rick Santorum basically tied in Iowa, he gave his campaign new life. He also guaranteed The us would last but not least study just how disgusting, vile and despicable the left is in this region. And just how main news outlets and 1 on the most well-known corporations on earth – Google – are complicit in seeking to destroy Santorum because he opposes gay marriage.

Santorum would be the target of what Reuters accomplice The Wrap and lots of other organizations call a “Google challenge.” That is rather the understatement. He was attacked with a Google bomb from Dan Savage, a gay advocate and sex columnist who hates straight people who really don’t concur with him. He also thinks they ought to be silenced, bullied and blackmailed. That’s particularly how he’s addressed Santorum.

Savage, in an try to demolish Rick Santorum on the web for all time, held a contest in 2003 and asked readers for your most foul thing they could say to build a whole new definition for “Santorum.” The dictionary calls that a neologism and audience gave him 3,000 strategies. In apply, what Savage has accomplished could be the lowest form of hate speech. What he picked as being a winner is so vile you really do not would like to read it or see it or listen to it.

But you have to. It is the top Google search expression for Santorum, due to an in depth lefty marketing campaign to discredit opponents of gay marriage. To overlook it really is to ignore an important situation that is certainly impacting the presidential marketing campaign. It is like hiding your eyes within the encounter of danger.

Google famously has a sophisticated algorithm setup to search websites and ascertain what probably the most well-liked strike is for every little thing. So Santorum contacted Google and asked for their support. They gave him the back again of their hand and refused to perform something. In repsonse to concerns from left-leaning Politico, a Google “spokesperson mentioned that Google does not ‘remove content from our lookup final results, other than in quite limited circumstances this sort of as illegal content and violations of our webmaster suggestions.’” Put simply, they are doing it anytime they truly feel like.

This putrid attack is not the defining fight with the 2012 election, however it does show you exactly where distinct organizations stand. If Google continues to permit it, it shows it can not be dependable together with the huge electricity it’s attained. And no network that embraces Savage as being a commentator or promotes his hypocritical charity could be taken critically.

It is terrible to see bullying – particularly when news outlets and Google lend a hand.