Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web

[Denny Crane]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/25/google-antitrust-microsoft-war_n_976804.html

WASHINGTON -- You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives and broadcasting the news through insider Washington publications, pumping air into a K Street tech bubble.

The shift in political strategy comes as Google faces a serious antitrust threat, punctuated by a high-profile hearing on the company held Wednesday afternoon in the Senate. But Google's investment in the infrastructure of the conservative movement goes much deeper than what's been reported this summer.

The company known for its progressive politics is now giving money to the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Republican Governors Association, the GOP firm The David All Group, Crossroads Strategies, the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Republican State Leadership Committee, among others. On Thursday, Google and Fox News cosponsored a Republican presidential debate.

 

[Denny Crane]

Huff and Puff Post whines about Google spending its money on conservatives instead of progressives.

There are many ways to read this.

1) Google's reading the tea leaves and it's time to buy the next winner
2) Current administration hostile to business, why should business invest in this administration?
3) Look at the right track/wrong track polls. It's not good PR to be backing the wrong track guys.

 

[barfo]

Huff and Puff Post whines about Google spending its money on conservatives instead of progressives.

There are many ways to read this.

1) Google's reading the tea leaves and it's time to buy the next winner
2) Current administration hostile to business, why should business invest in this administration?
3) Look at the right track/wrong track polls. It's not good PR to be backing the wrong track guys.

4) They realized that Republicans are easier/cheaper to buy than Democrats.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

4) They realized that Republicans are easier/cheaper to buy than Democrats.

barfo

They might have found that out between 2006 and 2008.