Oh, Hell, Alta Vista gave excellent search results for the Interwebz as they were in 1998ā¦ (and I still miss the Boolean search that you could use with no special effort other than quotation marks, or and and).
But Ask Jeeves said it was OK!
Just, also, FYI:
How many of his constituents still havenāt heard of Google?
In 2002, it was 1949 in Louisiana.
Yahoo!
Another potential candidate, state Rep. Steve Scalise (R), said he embraces many of the same āconservativeā views as Duke, but is far more viable.
āThe novelty of David Duke has worn off,ā said Scalise. āThe voters in this district are smart enough to realize that they need to get behind someone who not only believes in the issues they care about, but also can get elected. Duke has proven that he canāt get elected, and thatās the first and most important thing.ā
So Scalise thought that Duke was unelectableā¦ not that he disagreed with his political views.
And even if he did disagree (and at this point, who knows?), he didnāt find them abhorrent enough to think they should stop him from being elected.
He just knows the conservative movement has moved on to the thinly coded phrases, like thug and welfare.
Thatās some bullshit.
In the US people who read newspapers in 2002 & who had done so prior to 2002 as early as 1988 knew Duke was a shit disturbing racist clown who happened to know how to work Louisianaā s famously corrupt political machine to his temporary advantage.
Unless Scalise was kept in a mason jar of corn squeezins since 88, or even before if he was in LA, he knew damn well what Duke was about. Everyone did.
Come now, be fair, canāt you all remember that time you agreed to speak at some wacky fringe groupās conference and then woke up in a cold sweat when you realized that you had no idea how best to pander to them?
Obviously it has only been possible to ressearch a group or individualās ideology since the advent of advanced āthe googleā technology.
I fail to see a down side.
Thatās why I wonāt do gigs at retirement homes any more.
I hate to point anybody to Breitbart as a news source, but this article is actually pretty good. (Thatās because the right-wingers at Breitbart are trying to bash Boehner, whoās supporting Scalise.)
Scalise wasnāt dealing directly with Duke, but with Kenneth Knight, a neighbor of his who he did politics with over several years. Knight was one of Dukeās henchpersons, and invited Scalise to speak to EURO, an organization trying to prevent the allegedly impending demise of the white race, but says that he and Scalise didnāt talk about race or āthe Jewish questionā. Itās not like he could have that long a relationship without realizing what a vile bunch he was hanging out with.
AltaVista also gave the option of doing a page-title-only search.
Lots of things I miss about AltaVista.
Yeah, how can someone NOT know what that organization was about, itās called EURO FFSā¦ More backpeddling on Scaliseās part, Iād wager.
Agreed. I really want to see who is on his list, so we can know who to publicly shame and drive out of politics.
Yāknow, even before Tim Berners-Lee was born people had ways of doing research. They may not have been as fast or even as far-reaching as internet search engines can be, but people could still find information.
Thatās a moot point, of course, because this says it all:
Three years before he spoke at the conference Scalise was aware of Dukeās views.
The domain name for the group he spoke at in 2002 wasā¦ughā¦www.whitecivilrights.com.
Hereās the Wayback Machine page for August 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020810082546/http://www.whitecivilrights.com/
The banner clearly indicates that this is the group he spoke at.
Are we really to believe that he spoke at a convention with that domain name and DIDNāT realize what was going on? This clearly doesnāt pass the smell test.
Also, Google was the market leader in search in 2002, followed by Yahoo.
Soā¦yeah. Bullpucky.
