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"Trollop" will be in Google's Top 10 Hot Trends Tomorrow
I twittered this but I feel pretty confident about this prediction, so I’ll elaborate.
Today the first snippets of the illustrious Cliff Schecter’s new book, The Real McCain, came out on the web. Boy is it a doozy.
At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c—t.”
The latter accusation is easily understood, but the former is a word that was probably last used in a speakeasy.
In case you were wondering what a trollop is:
a vulgar or disreputable woman; especially one who engages in sex promiscuously or for money (Date: 1621)
I had to Google it to find the definition. I’m betting we’ll see it somewhere in the Hot Trends on Google tomorrow, if not in the top 10. The book is already #238 on Amazon, and it started at #150,000 this morning.
Now, to figure out how to work in “trollop” to a conversation tomorrow…
Apr 7, 09:17 PM / Comment [1]
I was trying to find Rudy Giuliani’s website, so I googled “rudy”. Giuliani’s website is the #2 result, behind the IMDB article for the 1993 movie about the Notre Dame benchsitter. But the AdWords results were interesting.
John McCain is the #1 bidder for “rudy,” directing people to an email sign-up page that unfortunately doesn’t capitalize on the specific keyword. A side-by-side comparison of the candidates would be much more effective, and would bring in more people than a single email field and a donate button.
Rudy Giuliani has a lot of ground to gain in the search engine game.
And then there were nine. (Fine, John Cox, fine. Ten.)
Tonight Tommy Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services, ended his way-long-shot bid for the presidency. Phew. I didn’t know how many more awkward debate appearances I could endure. Thompson’s departure raises a question on all our minds: who’s next?
While I’d like to see a way-early exit by McCain, I think it’s safe to say we’ll say goodbye to Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter before Straight Shot John will close his campaign. On the Democratic side, I’ve already said it’s time for Mike Gravel and Joe Biden to give up, and I can’t say I’d cry if Kucinich quit. I love the energy and idealism that Chris Dodd brings to the debates – it’s a shame I just can’t see him as president.
McCain running Google Adwords campaign on "Iraq war propaganda"
John McCain’s campaign is running a Google Adwords campaign on the phrase “Iraq war propaganda,” as evidenced by this ad that I found on NoIraqDraft.com, my petition site against a draft for the War. I can understand the campaign wanting to bring in visitors on ads targeted by issue area, but this ad makes it seem like you can find propaganda on the war at John McCain’s website. I don’t think that’s what McCain’s campaign wants to be doing now, as his unpopular positions on the war and basically every other issue at stake led Ames, Iowa Republicans to support him less than every other candidate in yesterday’s straw poll. (The only candidate who got fewer votes than McCain is John Cox, a no-name fringe candidate who’s raised just $12,000 for his quixotic campaign.)
2008 Internet Checkin: Columbus, KY; John McCain's Emails; Hook Up for Obama
It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to write about all that’s happening online in the presidential election, so I’m just going to jump in on this week. Here’s what’s interneting:
John McCain's email strategy: questionably crazy, definitely anti-Hillary
I’m subscribed to a number of 2008 presidential candidates’ email lists to see how each is using to organize their online supporters. For the next 500 or so days, I’m going to follow and analyze the content, tactics, and strategy of the candidates’ use of email.
Today, June 30, is the end of the fundraising quarter. Every campaign has been ramping up their efforts to bring in money online. Barack Obama’s campaign smashed its goal of 250,000 donors for the year, and Hillary’s campaign just sent out an email stating a goal of raising $100,000 online in the last 24 hours before the end of the cycle.
But so far, the most curious campaign has come from John McCain.
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