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Wow. Just… wow. Okay, admittedly Google Counsel Richard Salgado could have done a better job of explaining that internet advertising isn’t really all that different from traditional advertising, just with better and more dynamic targeting, but in all fairness he probably didn’t think he’d need to. My condensed transcript for those of you who don’t have time for videos or Louie Gohmert:
Gohmert: “Isn’t it true that you sell your Gmail users’ data to your corporate customers so they can send ads to them?”
Salgado: “Well no.”
Gohmert: “So couldn’t you therefore sell the same kind of data to the government BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI?”
Salgado: “Wait… what?”
Gohmert: “HuffPo reporters are simpletons.”
Sensenbrenner: “My son is a HuffPo reporter.”
Gohmert: “Oh. Mumble grumble mumble.”
And one direct quote because there is no way I can do it justice:
Salgado: “Sir, I think those are apples and oranges. The disclosure of the identity-”
Gohmert: “Well, I’m not asking for a fruit comparison.”
Your Congress at work.
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Oh Eli…there are so many places I could go with this. Fruit cake, Fruit Salad, Fruit Loops….the list is endless.
ELI, you sly dog, you.
Look, politics iz fun again. :)
(And, thanks.)
Salgado: “Sir, I think those are apples and oranges. The disclosure of the identity-”
Gohmert: “Well, I’m not asking for a fruit comparison.”
RIP Ted Stevens
But, Tubz is kind of a fun word, don’t you think?
We’ll be using it long after kabuki, which seems to be getting a bad reputation lately.
Just how I see it. Right now. :)
Yes, is there a “Ted Stevens ‘Tubes’ Award” we can give this guy?
Next contest: designing the medallion for the award.
If stupidity = gold, this is solid 24 karat.
Gohmert is pretending that the Government isn’t currently data-mining every email already.
Gohmert is pretending that he intends to pertect his constituents from The Black Marxist Menace and Big Gubmint.
Gohmert still wants to get paid by Big Gubmint, however.
Also: Benghazi!
Well Eli, if the internet is not an orange, is it an apple? Or a banana?
So many possibilities, particularly if you include tropical fruit.
Aloha, Eli…! ;-)
He may not understand one of the most common English expressions, but boy howdy does he know how to work in a Benghazi non sequitur!
Yeah, time and a HALF.
Big Gubmint doesn’t need Google to Scroogle. It has the NSA and AT&T, Verizon, etc – all with legal immunity for spying on any and all Merkins. Worldwide Data Mining, really.
Go. Read. Link in DSWright’s #3 above to be reminded of the blithering foolery that was the Third-in-Line-For-the-Presidency Senator from Alaska.
Makes Gohmert sound like the president of Mensa.
I know extreme heat affects the brain and makes people dumb as rocks.
Guess extreme cold does too.
Aloha, CTut…!
Once again, reality outstrips The Onion.
ELI!
People like Gohmert so make me wanna move.
MARGARET!
He is pretty close to the bottom of the barrel.
What? The inter tubes are not an orange? Surely you jest.
I have great appreciation for Louie. He’s a guaranteed laugh and I wish he would go on tv every day. Dumbest person I’ve ever seen. Thanks, Eli. Needed that.
I watched the video and was comforted to know that Gohmert really is as stupid as I always thought he was. He simply could not follow the explanation offered of Google’s business model.
I thought you were kidding with the transcript.
WTF?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time flies like an arrow but Fruit flies like a banana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_c39mT0bs&list=UU0qmpHvwSL5K_whqpRVbeeQ&index=9
Whar ready said. I thought, even though it is Louis Gohmert, you must be exaggerating a little bit.
nope. Louie really is so dumb he doesn ‘t know a familiar English phrase, and he never figured out that google ads don’t actually come to your email addy. Justblundering along, never knowing people are laughing at him.
yet this idiot makes laws we have to live by.
Yes, Louie Gohmert is that stupid. He got his seat because Tom DeLay gerrymandered it to take out Max Sandlin, the Democratic (and sane) incumbent at the time.