from Lazlo's Basement He may be America, but he’s not on the ballot. South Carolina committee members, aided apparently by local mindreaders, decided yesterday that Stephen Colbert , political satirist and host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report , is not serious about running for president and therefore denied his application to run in the South Carolina democratic primary. Committee members who initially accepted Colbert’s $2500 filing fee now state that the fee will be returned...Read Full Story
theodp writes "Fortune contributor Dan Mitchell argues that GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's 'Google problem' isn't Google's problem at all. 'The fact that searching for 'santorum' puts the profane, anti-Rick Santorum site SpreadingSantorum.com (NSFW) at the top of Google's search results,' insists Mitchell, 'is not an example of a "Google bomb," despite the widespread use of that term to describe the result.' In the same camp is...
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