[Vnbiz] Georgie Bush Jr, Google & News: Vietnam +/-Iraq +/-War = Oops

[AD Marshall]

Something got screwed up in the Google web and news search-links in this
post.  They've been fixed and the figures have been updated online at Georgie
Bush Jr, Google & News: Vietnam +/-Iraq +/-War -- Yet
Again<http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-news-georgie-bush-jr-vietnam.html>,
http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-news-georgie-bush-jr-vietnam.html

<http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-news-georgie-bush-jr-vietnam.html>

On 8/23/07, AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007-08-23 Georgie Bush Jr, Google & News: Vietnam +/-Iraq +/-War = Oops<http://sighgone-ho.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-news-georgie-bush-jr-vietnam.html> This
> has to be one of Georgie Junior's biggest PR screw-ups to date.  Keep the
> troops in Iraq to avoid another "Vietnam", he told the world.  The world
> Press has pounced on this one like a pack of starving dogs.  If Bush Jr's
> Admin' weren't on their way out, you'd almost think they were desperately
> insane.
>
> Skimming the hundreds of titles listed yesterday from some thirty news
> feeds via Google Reader <http://www.google.com/reader/>, it started to
> seem almost grossly negligent to continue ignoring Bush Jr's breach of his
> own Admin's PR taboo on comparing the USA's Iraq war to it's Vietnam debacle
> just three, four decades earlier.
>
> [image: undefined]
> From the TimesOnline UK <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/>, 23.Aug.2007,
> "Bush invokes Vietnam to justify Iraq commitment"
>
> [image: US president George Bush during a speech to the Veterans of
> Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.]
> US president George Bush during a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars
> National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Photograph: Jim
> Young/Reuters
> From Guardian Unlimited <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, 22.Aug.2007,
> "Bush gambles with Vietnam reference over Iraq "
>
> Some four years ago, searching Google for "Vietnam" became increasingly
> tedious as more and more comparisons between the USA's Iraq and Vietnam wars
> started marching in step with preparations for the Iraq invasion and Bush
> Jr's denials of any relationship between the two misguided and ultimately
> regrettable conflicts.
>
> Eventually, it wasn't worth searching for "Vietnam" unless "Iraq" was
> excluded, along with the old exclusion for "war" that had always been
> needed.  A year or two later, the Iraq exclusion could be dropped as the US
> Admin's PR strategists succeeded in pushing such invidious comparisons out
> of the memory and interests both the USA's media and public.
>
> But, yesterday, those same old comparisons came rushing back online, this
> time promoted by the very Admin' that had worked so hard to suppress any
> such comparisons, just a few years earlier.
>
> Take a look at the Google stats from roughly
> 10h00-11h00.Thu.23.Aug.2007.ICT.  The specific period has to be mentioned
> because the numbers below where rapidly rising with each page refresh ("|"
> means "OR"; "-word" means exclude "word"; "word1-word2" means find the exact
> phrase "word1 word2"):
>
>    - Web: 223,000,000 for vietnam | saigon | hcmc | hanoi | hochiminh
>    <http://www.google.com/search?q=vietnam%257Csaigon%257Chcmc%257Chanoi%257Chochiminh&safe=off>
>    - Web: 157,000,000 for vietnam | saigon | hcmc | hanoi | hochiminh
>    -iraq -war <http://www.google.com/search?q=iraq-war&safe=off>
>    - Web: 24,500,000 for iraq-war<http://www.google.com/search?q=iraq-war&safe=off>
>    - News: 25,262 for iraq-war<http://news.google.com/news?q=iraq-war&safe=off>
>    - News: 24,948 for vietnam | saigon | hcmc | hanoi | hochiminh<http://news.google.com/news?q=vietnam%257Csaigon%257Chcmc%257Chanoi%257Chochiminh&safe=off>
>    - News: 13,196 for vietnam | saigon | hcmc | hanoi | hochiminh -iraq
>    -war
>    <http://news.google.com/news?q=vietnam%257Csaigon%257Chcmc%257Chanoi%257Chochiminh+-iraq+-war&safe=off>
>    - News: 5,478 for vietnam | saigon | hcmc | hanoi | hochiminh iraq
>    war<http://news.google.com/news?q=vietnam%257Csaigon%257Chcmc%257Chanoi%257Chochiminh+iraq+war&safe=off>
>    - News: 5,407 for vietnam iraq war<http://news.google.com/news?q=vietnam+iraq+war&safe=off>
>    - News: 2,734 for vietnam iraq war
>    <http://news.google.com/news?q=bush+vietnam+iraq+war&safe=off>bush
>    <http://news.google.com/news?q=bush+vietnam+iraq+war&safe=off>
>
> Take your own snapshot now. Clicking on the link for each page-count above
> takes you to the latest Google search results -- providing new numbers, not
> the ones above. (Warnings: For consistency, underlying URLs turn
> "Safe-search" off, force Google home to be used, not google.com.vn or
> other, and browser differences are ignored.)
>
> We might do an update or two ourselves, later on.  For now, a couple
> pieces from "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry", Editor
> & Publisher <http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/>, might be worth a read:
>
>    - Apocalypse ... Now? Press Explores Bush's Iraq/Vietnam Link<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003628927>,
>    Greg Mitchell, Editor, August 22, 2007 10:55 AM ET
>    - LBJ's 1965 Vietnam Speech Echoed By Bush Today<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003629456>,
>    Greg Mitchell, Editor, August 22, 2007 ET
>
> --
> Posted By Mặc AD Marshall to SighGone, Hø! at 8/23/2007 11:42:00 AM
>
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