Comments on: Senator Franken Shilling for Google?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:04:41 +0000

This is a joke right?! But lets be honest they just found Plutonium particles 30km from Fukushima and our US based news agencies will not even cover the topic. Time to go camp out on Wall Street; but oh wait the official press line is that they are all just a bunch of losers who do not even know what they are protesting.

The system is so broke it is not even funny. Amazing that Google, the company that will DO NO HARM, is now part of the corporate oligarchy… nice.

By: Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:17:14 +0000

I guess he never really “looked” into the mirror for his reaffirmation

By: The Politics of Google

The Politics of Google — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:55:39 +0000

[...] as Mike Blumenthal pointed out yesterday Franken has both sides of his mouth functioning properly as he was in a video praising Google for [...]

By: Jim Jaggers

Jim Jaggers — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:30:30 +0000

So, so sad. So sad. How …? I …?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:26:53 +0000

@Earl

Great idea!

I like the Google program and while it is free for year one, its free the way the the car mats in your car are free or perhaps more to the point the way the ad supported Kindle is nearly free.

At the end of the day, Google and Intuit hope that a significant % of the businesses keep their websites and keep advertising. Adwords Express is likely covered during the seminar.

None of that is bad. I just think it inappropriate for a Senator, that is “representing the peoples’s interest” and making sure that the consumer is not suffering from actions of an “alleged monopolist”, to be so aggressively marketing the “free” products of that monopolist. It just looks bad.

It does however speak the point I have been making about anti-trust hearings that they are mostly one corporation (or a group of them) looking to score some tactical advantage over another corporation and have little to do with consumer well being.

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:18:30 +0000

Mike: See if you can get Franken to shill for LocalU you guys can go into Minnesota after the google effort and then teach smb’s how to get the most bang for their web buck!!!!!

ya know…once google gets some of the SMB’s on adwords….they are gonna keep working on those smbs to keep spending MORE!!!!

By: Sen. Franken Criticizes Google In Hearings, Praises Google In Video

Sen. Franken Criticizes Google In Hearings, Praises Google In Video — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:56:00 +0000

[...] apparent “conflict of interest” where Google is concerned. Discovered by Mike Blumenthal Franken did a “commercial” on behalf of Google’s “Get Your Business [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:00:42 +0000

@Frank

This level of overt pandering is not unique to Franken. It is pandemic in our political system…. one where the rules are written by and for those with money. This is just one sad example.

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:38:35 +0000

Al Franken as a senator was a bad idea all around.