Conservatives blast Google logos

[DBoon]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google9oct09,0,2321354.story?coll=la-home-center

Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic.

The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives.

Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

I wish these people would get a life.

[Warpy]

1. I wish they'd just go away

They make me tired.

[ClassWarrior]

3. Hey, when the fundies attack the corporatists, is that such a bad thing?

:shrug:

NGU.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Who are these lowlifes

and how did they they get the ear of the LA Times? Google doesn't need to listen to these whiny malcontents.

[zabet]

4. So now companies HAVE to

tailor make their ads and logos to the desires
of the conservatives? :crazy:

[Mist]

5. These people actively seek out reasons to be offended--they need a better hobby. nt

[guitar man]

6. fantastic

I love it. This is all they have left folks, their party and their leaders have proven themselves to be complete losers on the actual issues so for the hardcore koolaid drinkers, this is their last refuge, non-issues, akin to flag burning and such.

buh bye lil RWers! :hi:

[unpossibles]

7. they need to fuck off

I love how they are the first to cry "PC!!1!" or "Censorship!" or whatever if someone suggests they should not use racist terms, or that crimes against homosexuals are wrong, but if a company is not so right wing that Hitler would be ashamed of them, they get all assed up.

What are they always saying? That a private company is free to do what it wants (as long as jackbooted morans agree with it...)?

[tanyev]

8. Sputnik! That's what that was.

(D'oh!)

[populistdriven]

14. beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep

thats what they are so upset about? get a life!

[Rhythm and Blue]

9. How dare they honor a milestone in human technological progress!

Don't they know that was performed by a nation-state that was competing for resources with the nation-state in whose territory we live?

How offensive!

[DuaneBidoux]

15. Yea' but Americans didn't do it!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. I remember seeing that logo.

I was a bit surprised and happy to see it. I figured we were over that cold war bullshit. Apparently not.

[louis-t]

11. Rethugs can't let go of the cold war.

They would be happy to start it up again. More people for them to hate.

[RC]

12. Bingo!

They need to be in a treatment program for their mental illness.

[LeftHander]

13. Ding Ding Ding...Republicans can't exist...

without an enemy...