3.22.2005

http://www.google.com/search?=en&q=racist:
"I love my family. I love my race," says a headline accompanying a photo of a tow-headed boy on the website for National Vanguard, a magazine run by "white pride" group National Alliance (in 1989, the magazine celebrated the 100th anniversary of Hitler's birth, citing him as "the greatest man of our era"). Browsing topics of their news posts--anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism, anti-black--it's easy to see why the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the neo-Nazi group "the most important hate group in America."

Pretty fringe stuff, right? Not according to Google News, which includes the site on its pages. Google News is known for its entirely computerized (and therefore ideologicaly independent) method of randomly generating headlines. But as Google Blogoscoped writes, while the results are algorhythmically selected, their sources aren't: "Google News... still pick their sources manually; a human editor at Google, not a computer, selected National Vanguard as Google News source." A taste of the news you might Google up:
Race-mixing egalitarian George Harrison, known as the “Quiet Beatle,” died in Los Angeles on November 29, 2001, after battling lung cancer and a brain tumor. He spent the last miserable weeks of his life in the company of parasitic Jew Gilbert Lederman (pictured), who exploited the dying man with the kind of gall that only a Jew could muster.
(Via Waxy.)

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