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Jim Newell at his new Gawker digs (h/t Blackfrancis):

Boy howdy, Google has done it now! The company’s special Veterans Day logo this year, you see, features a mysterious crescent shape. And you know who loves crescent shapes? The Muslims. Yeah, some people are actually upset about this.

[…..]

William Browning of Associated Content — owned by Yahoo! Hmm! — has written what we believe is a non-satirical article about this great controversy, and has some harsh words for those wiseass Allah-coddling Osamas running the show at Google:

In a civilized society we need to show respect. We show respect by opening the door for the elderly. We show respect by thanking a solider for fighting for us. We show respect by saluting the flag when in uniform. We show respect by not desecrating someone’s sacred symbol.

How long til Politico reports with journalism on what Sarah Palin has tweeted about this atrocity?

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  2. 2.

    BenA

    Why am I surprised that there are people in this country who don’t know what the letter “e” is.

  3. 3.

    TomG

    That’s not a crescent…..that’s obviously one of Satan’s horns !
    He’s hiding behind the logo…somewhere…plotting.

  4. 4.

    El Cid

    The lower case letter “e” was originally designed by the Islamic caliphate to subliminally convert Europeans to Shari’a law.

  5. 5.

    mikefromArlington

    When the guy at lgf linked to the google search engine I noticed what looked like a crescent too.

    No doubt the right wing will think it’s Obama and his friend Schmidts’ way of giving the finger to our troops.

  7. 7.

    BenA

    Of course… it just dawned on me… Don’t most wing nut rants actually have Caps Lock turned on? The probably don’t understand ANY lowercase letters.

  10. 10.

    Joe Beese

    I’m going to get a head start on honoring the supreme sacrifices that will be made by the American soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2011.

    It will be a fine pipeline someday.

  11. 11.

    fasteddie9318

    Is there a decent country in which to go and wait out the right wing’s now 30+ year long temper tantrum? I My friend was thinking it’s finally time to clear out of this place before it goes full-on Arkham Asylum, but my wife and I my friend can’t figure out if there’s anyplace left on the planet that isn’t trending in the “cupcakes for the rich, dog shit for everyone else” direction.

  12. 12.

    David Hunt

    @Dexter:

    Time to develop a conservative search engine.

    It was my understanding that they already have. I think it’s called the Drudge Report,

  15. 15.

    Citizen_X

    @CT Voter:

    If you tell me what a solider is

    I don’t know, but I assume a solider is the opposite of a gassier.

    And there are plenty of those on the telebishun.

  16. 16.

    JGabriel

    Huh. Conservatives usually get upset when you show too much ‘ee in public instead of not enough.

    .

  17. 17.

    El Cid

    Obama rapes drunk girls.

    Obama: Like a sex-crazed frat boy
    __
    …Like the sorority girl who fell asleep drunk, awakening to an opportunistic frat boy peeling her clothes off, Americans let their guard down in a big way. Fortunately, the fear roused us from that torpor and insensibility, and we were able to fend him off before the deed was done. But we have a responsibility now to determine that he doesn’t have the opportunity to harm anyone else.

  20. 20.

    Cris

    At least two of the tweets Newell posts there — one from “mikebodge” and the other apparently from Ruben Bolling himself — are clearly facetious.

  24. 24.

    chopper

    @Dexter:

    yeah! they can call it ‘goople’, and instead of ‘i’m feeling lucky’ the button says ‘i’m feeling fuckin’ stupid’.

  28. 28.

    sstarr

    You know what else is crescent shaped? The MOON. I can’t believe that, as a God Fearing American I have to look up almost half of the nights of the year and see a crescent shaped moon shining down on the LAND OF THE FREE. We need to BLOW UP THE MOON. Obama is so muslin and soshialist that he probably likes the moon.

  32. 32.

    Tara the antisocial social worker

    And the name Obama starts with O, which is TWO crescents fitting together!

    And “Secret Moooslim” has THREE O’S!

  33. 33.

    JGabriel

    GOPple(tm): The Conservative Search Engine — By returning only one-third as many hits as liberal-biased search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Medline, we save YOU money!

    (Yes, I know Medline is not a search engine. GOPple’s(tm) target audience does not.)

    .

  34. 34.

    Calming Influence

    You know who else likes crescents? The French! Only they call them “croissants” (because they’re all frenchified and shit, so they make up their own words for everything, like American words aren’t good enough – what assholes).

    That’s why I only buy Pillsbury Freedom Rolls.

  38. 38.

    Mary

    @El Cid:

    The lower case letter “e” was originally designed by the Islamic caliphate to subliminally convert Europeans to Shari’a law.

    I just hope nobody ever tells the wingnuts about our number system, or they’ll be demanding we go back to Roman Numerals.

  40. 40.

    ppcli

    This is an important moment for me. Despite living in this country for over 25 years, I never felt I understood the craziness around me. But this morning, I opened Google, and thought immediately “Hmmm…. Michele Malkin’s going to go apeshit about the ‘e’.” Perhaps I really am getting the hang of this place.

  41. 41.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    One is at an absolute loss for words.

    Though one does wonder what goes through the minds of the families of Muslim Americans killed in action. Like this young man, Muslim Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan:

    http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_larkrwAPE01qet98po1_250.jpg

    (taken, of course, from the ever-awesome tumblr Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things http://muslimswearingthings.tumblr.com/ )

    In a civilized society we need to show respect. We show respect for those who were killed in the act of defending this great nation, no matter their religious affiliation.

  43. 43.

    Roger Moore

    @chopper:

    instead of ‘i’m feeling lucky’ the button says ‘i’m feeling fuckin’ stupid’.

    Unless you’re searching for images of Sarah Palin or one of her Hot Mama Grizzlies. In that case, the button will say “I’m hoping to get lucky”.

  44. 44.

    eemom

    a little piece of lower case “e”? Oh reeaaaally? Well riddle me this one, Batman — how come the WHOLE “l” is missing then….huh?? Where’s the little piece of Google “l” that should be RIGHT there next to the so-called lower case “e”???

    Gawd, you mooslimist obamafascistcommies must think we realmerikans wuz born yesterday…..

  45. 45.

    Arclite

    I don’t know, it seemed to me that the American flag was crapping out a red cresent, since we devour our enemies and crap them out. I don’t think Google could have put up a more right weeng image if they wanted to.

  46. 46.

    Kryptik

    @ppcli:

    Perhaps I really am getting the hang of this place.

    My condolences. No one deserves to “get the hang of” batshit crazy. Regardless, join the club.

  47. 47.

    patrick II

    Back in the early days of Iraq “liberation” a right wing mullah chastised a garden stand seller because he had celery displayed upright next to a couple of tomatoes. It was too suggestive of western style libidousness. But those right wing mullahs are crazy.
    By the way, I noticed that Laura Winzeler’s ad on the right hand side of this blog has what appears to be a part of a crescent shaped display of fruits and vegetables. She may want to square that off into the shape of an American flag. We wouldn’t want Balloon Juice to join Rachel Ray and Google in blatant displays of enemy insignia.

  48. 48.

    Jacob Beizer

    The Corner has spent the entire day combining NRO fundraising efforts with fake homages to veterans. Anyone with kidney or heart problems should avoid K Lo and company for the rest of the day.

    This public service announcement was brought to you by Jacob.

  49. 49.

    Capn America

    @fasteddie9318: easy, just make a one-page website that submits the search query to google with +conservative in front of it. That guarantees that all of their links are crazy-approved.

  51. 51.

    quaint irene

    I guess it’s becoming pointless to type out this sentence, ‘I seriously think this country has collectively lost it’s shit….” Something John wrote posting about people screaming ‘socialism’ over their town awarding a contract to a garbage collector. Cause there’s alway going to be crazier bullshit to come.

  52. 52.

    SlyFox

    @El Cid:

    Ok, big muthfuckin dogwhistle. Obama is Angry. Obama is Arrogant. Obama is Racist. Obama rapes white women. I swear, they try to make him sound like an Antebellum Slave Owner than a black man.

  53. 53.

    tripletee

    We need to BLOW UP THE MOON.

    Slow down, you liberal fascist. Don’t you know there’s an AMERICAN FLAG up there? Destroying the moon is off the table.

    Instead, we’ll have to figure out a way to tide-lock it so it always presents its full face when viewed from North America (or at least the non-Hispanic, non-Canuck parts of NA).

  54. 54.

    estamm

    Actually, the flag in the Google banner pisses me off. The blue field stops at the red stripe instead of the white stripe. I HATE it when I see that. I see it all the time on t-shirts. If you can’t get the flag design right, then don’t try at all.

  55. 55.

    cleek

    @eemom:

    how come the WHOLE “l” is missing then

    because, in Islamofascism, the individual is subservient to the state and therefor there is no more “i”.

  56. 56.

    Chris

    Obviously the letter e is itself Muslim, as its basic shape is a crescent.

    But wait … so is the letter c!

    We all must stop using these lttrs immdiatly!

    Also, I must hang my nam to Hris.

  59. 59.

    EdTheRed

    How dare Google desecrate the American flag by superimposing atop what is clearly the crescent moon of the flag of South Carolina, where the traitorous Confederate States of America first violently attacked the United States of America!

  60. 60.

    Zuzu's Petals

    Having read both pages of Browning’s piece, I think he is actually saying that it’s causing the wingnuts to vent their anti-Islamic spleens:

    Way to go, Google. Give crazies such as Pamela Geller, Terry Jones and Tea Party patriots the fuel they need to wage an all-out slugfest of vitriol against Islam for ruining an American tradition.
    ….
    I’m disappointed in Google’s doodle for this Veterans Day. Our president just left the world’s largest Islamic country when he visited Indonesia. He treated Islam with respect. Is this doodle the way we show the world we are civilized and respectful? No wonder Islamic extremists hate us.

    Not saying he makes sense though.

  61. 61.

    Dave S.

    We show respect by not desecrating someone’s sacred symbol.

    Exactly. My first thought was “How could they do that to the Google logo?!”

  64. 64.

    JGabriel

    @LikeableInMyOwnWay:

    I hav_ alr_ady b_gun boycotting the l_tt_r _. Fuck Y_ah.

    I gu_ss it’s tim_ to introduc_ all of you to G_org_ P_r_c’s A Void, th_ nov_l that has no _.

    An full book with no words at all that contain an ‘_’.

    Of cours_, it’s actually Fr_nch. Th_ original titl_ is La Disparition. Fuckin’ Francophon_s.

    .

  68. 68.

    JGabriel

    Everyone’s going on about the ~90 degree arc that is probably a Muslim Obama Crescent, but has anyone looked at the flag just to it’s left?

    If you straighten the flagpole ever so slightly, so it stands perpendicular, then it’s obviously the vertical crossbar of a swastika! Teh Google(tm) are Nazis!

    .

  69. 69.

    fasteddie9318

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    That’s how I read it too; he’s pissed at Google because crazy nutjobs saw something they did, misinterpreted it, and then shat all over themselves in outrage. That’s a little like blaming your neighbor for planting the tree in his front yard that the drunk driver wrapped his car around.

  70. 70.

    dms

    @estamm:

    This was a joke right? ‘Cause I just checked Google images (I know, they’re Islamofascist lovers), and that’s where the blue field stops.

  71. 71.

    Suck It Up!

    @El Cid:

    Sort of reminds me of this chick:

    “We’re the girl you’ll take under the bleachers but you won’t be seen with in the light of day,” the blogger, Susan Madrak of Crooks and Liars,

    So when Obama is not delighting in pissing off gays, or beating hippies or sexing easy girls behind the bleachers, he’s raping America.

    The disrespect of Obama is disgusting.

  72. 72.

    MattR

    @fasteddie9318: Agreed, but more to the point I can’t think of a better way for those asshats to vent their Islamophobia than over something so ridiculous that anyone with even half a brain realizes they are tilting at windmills.

  73. 73.

    Mike RG

    OT, but Mitch McConnell says he is “willing to listen” to Obama’s ideas on extention of tax cuts. This makes me think there is already a deal in place to extend them all for some time, three years would be my guess. The CNN story also said that Republicans were willing to let the cuts lapse and push the debate into next year, but only as a “last resort”. There could be some leverage there.

  74. 74.

    Michael D.

    I think it’s funnier that some artist at Google doesn’t know how many stripes are on the flag… Unless there were four additional original colonies that he or she knows about that the rest of us don’t!!

  79. 79.

    SlyFox

    @freelancer:

    Between her and Naomi Klein, its like go to Las Vegas, buy two male prostitutes and get your nut. God. Its like everything Obama does is the same as their exes misdeeds. He’s not your man ladies. The first lady has him taken care of. CLOSE YOUR LEGS!

  80. 80.

    JPL

    OGLiberal mentioned that the wingnuts would scream about the design and several commented that the design was nice and fitting for the day. I’m shocked.

  82. 82.

    martha

    Wow, so that really pretty crescent moon I saw from the damn CAR for over four hours on Monday night was soshulist. Who’d a thunk? And yes, I was doing my civic duty and DRIVING back from Minneapolis because our new freedom-loving asshat gov’ner won’t have no hippie-lovin’ government-funded trains in our state by golly! So we business folk are supposed to continue wasting 8-10 hours of our lives (or throw away $600 for a 40 minute flight to the monopoly that is Delta Airlines) driving to and fro. Such a great use of time. But why would we want to do business in another city/state? Hmmm. Gosh that moon was pretty! /sigh.

  83. 83.

    Suck It Up!

    @Mike RG:

    This makes me think there is already a deal in place to extend them all for some time, three years would be my guess.

    Don’t do this. We won’t know anything for sure until congress returns. Mitch is full of shit so keep that in mind.

  84. 84.

    DougJ

    @ppcli:

    This is an important moment for me. Despite living in this country for over 25 years, I never felt I understood the craziness around me. But this morning, I opened Google, and thought immediately “Hmmm…. Michele Malkin’s going to go apeshit about the ‘e’.” Perhaps I really am getting the hang of this place.

    Win.

  87. 87.

    YellowJournalism

    This is, what, the second or third Google complaint from the right in the last six months. Can’t remember what the previous one was about, though. This one just makes me want to sigh loudly.

    OT: I have a little boy with the flu here who demands “More kitty cat pictures. NOW Please!” I’ve been scrolling through the cat/dog blogging and pet rescue archives with him. He also asks where’s “fat cat” (aka Tunch) and the puppies.

  88. 88.

    Delia

    I just checked the classic google homepage. The cowards took down the fancy logo.

    First they came for teh google . . .

  90. 90.

    Hob

    @sstarr: You think you’re kidding, but in some wingnut circles it’s an article of faith that Islam is actually a moon-god cult. Not just that there might have been some lunar mythology among the Middle Eastern and North African tribes that became early Muslim converts, but that they’re all secretly worshipping the moon right now. No links– Google it and weep.

  91. 91.

    gnomedad

    @El Cid:
    Crap, I clicked through:

    Erik Rush’s new book is bold, daring and needed: “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession”

    [vomit]

  93. 93.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    For once in my life, I am happy that I have a slight visual perception problem. I could have looked at this for hours and never seen the so-called crescent. It’s hard to believe that, with jobs hard to come by, lots of charities needing volunteers, and the world in a general mess, there are all sorts of folks in America who have the time and interest to examine Google’s logo for the day.

  94. 94.

    Der Debabelizer

    The pole supporting the flag takes the place of the “l” in Google, and the stripes in the flag take the place of the upper part of the “e”. Pretty creative, I think.

  95. 95.

    Resident Firebagger

    All I know is that my Chrome browser crashes on every Yahoo page.

    They’re both fucking evil…

  96. 96.

    Perfect Tommy

    @Hob:

    Google it and weep.

    I don’t think you understand what a boycott is. : )

    My favorite faux symbolism outrage was when Obama campaigned in Ohio and the the wingnuts thought that the Ohio state flags on the stage were some new Obama flag with a “O” on it.

  98. 98.

    Platonicspoof

    @YellowJournalism:

    This is, what, the second or third Google complaint from the right in the last six months.

    Considering a couple of the responses I’ve gotten from someone who use to (past tense) send me chain e-mails when I would cite Snopes and others, ideologues are irritated every single day by Google as a fact checker.

    It’s the only way I can understand their seeing ‘enemy’ codes in a graphic and conversely, an image of Jesus on a half-burned piece of toast.

    And John better be careful he doesn’t let down the next generation of BJers, or he’ll get a shellacking in the Weblog awards.
    Not enough “fat cat” pictures, no vote from me!

  100. 100.

    Brutusettu

    ….atop what is clearly the crescent moon of the flag of South Carolina @EdTheRed: @EdTheRed:

    Not only that, South Carolina University uses that same crescent moon on a lot of their apparel, I fear Steve Spurrier is leading a crop of young Muslim jihadist that are in excellent physical condition.

  102. 102.

    Margaret Joseph

    This is just me responding. I am a VietNam Era Veteran. I do not approve of the crescent w/ our American flag in a picture, or anything else. It is sacrilege!!!! this is America, Love it or Leave it,Cresent People!!!!!!!!!!!! Google, you know better than that; it’s like burning the Flag…. there is enough going on with the Mosque wanting to be at Ground Zero, Good God, not in a million years, Please. that is Sacred Ground!!!!!!!!!! The people who fell and jumped to their deaths are buried there.WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CRESENT PEOPLE, DIDN’T YOU DO ENOUGH AT THAT SITE?????? LEAVE IT ALONE, PLEASE…..

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