Will John McCain Report to Google? Eric Schmidt Flexes Presidential Muscle
THE NEXT PRESIDENT Of The UNITED STATES ANSWERS To GOOGLE, I headlined way back in July. Nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal’s “Business Technology” beat is once again clueless about Google: The Republican party announces it is in bed with the Wall Street darling mega corporation and WSJ staffer Ben Worthen confesses he doesn’t know what’s up:
We know Google is starting to target businesses. But, frankly, this announcement caught us off guard: The Republican party has tapped Google to be the “official innovation provider” at its national convention in September. What does an official innovation provider do?
Well, Ben, there really is no such thing as an “innovation provider.” AND, what do you mean that Google is “is starting to target businesses”? GOOG has been raking in billions from businesses for years!
What IS happening? I have long pointed out that Google’s masterful manipulation of the world for its own unique shareholder advantage stems from one, shrewdly controlled, four letter word: SPIN.
“Innovation Provider” is Googley speak for technology vendor. Google is free to tout such a pompous claim in its own announcements, but when the political party that is behind the presidency of the United States gleefully prostitutes itself by dutifully regurgitating PR speak spoon fed from an out-sourced corporate vendor that is wantonly flexing its political, tehnology, financial and media msucle, the American democracy is at stake.
On Februrary 15, 2008, the Wall Street Journal’s Worthen posts a few off the cuff paragraphs in reaction to a GOP press release and advises: “This marriage of politics and technology raises nagging questions.”
RAISES QUESTIONS? Here at Insider Chatter, I have been chronicling Google’s ongoing, global, political power grab, and have been warning of CEO Eric Schmidt’s political power moves for more than a year, ever since he welcomed then Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton to the Googleplex. SEE:
Google, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Health Care and
Google Global Power Grab: Aussie Politicians in Tow
Google: U.S. Taxpayers To Finance GOOG Riches and
Google to World: AdWords Need Political Freedom and
Google on Government, Schools: Google Search to the Rescue and
Google Masters Art of Influence Peddling and
Cisco to Google: Get Real! and
Eric Schmidt: Google Cures What Ails the World
Google is determined to control all the world’s information and has its eyes set on the powerful political kind. Not only is the Google top brass, led by Googler in Chief Eric Schmidt, enjoying the fruits of intimate sit-downs with all who hope to become the next president of the United States, the not so humble, but very merry, band of Googlers have had their say, and their way, with the candidates, as they dutifully made their pilgramages to the Goolgeplex.
First Hillary Clinton, then John McCain. Schmidt is fond of calling the meet and greets part of the ultimate job interview for the top job in the U.S. and, as McCain can attest to, an interview at Google is no walk in the park, even with a Mountain View!
When Schmidt welcomed Clinton in February to his “house” with the requisite courtesy, the frontrunner candidate reciprocated with a rousing endorsement of (then) Google Vice President Adam Bosworth’s ambitions for Google branded Personal Health Records.
McCain did not have such smooth Googley sailing, however. Googlers in attendance were visceral in their interrogations of McCain. McCain of course can tell a story or two about what is to be under interrogative fire and following his Googleplex experience he can add a few more tales to his repertoire. Many Googlers insisted on what they knew would be best for McCain to do if he became President.
McCain apparently got the Googley message. In response to a Googler question about immigration laws, McCain got his biggest round of applause of his “job interview” at Google:
If Google is going to be able to maintain its supremacy in the world, it is going to have to continue to get the best and the brightest from all over the world, and I accept with your gigantic egos, that you are the best…we need an H1B visa program that works.
McCain would undoubtedly get a gentler Google welcome now, given his Republican front runner status.
What the world really needs to worry about, though, is Google’s ambitions for world supremacy, which it is scarily achieving, with the help of government and political systems worldwide, including our own.
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