IS GOOGLE PART OF THE BIASED MEDIA?

Google News had up a curious set of links as of 9:52 tonight. In the "US" section, it links to a story headlined "Attacks on US Forces in Iraq Seen Very Likely to Continue." That's fairly obvious given the environment, and Google didn't write the headline so I'm not hitting them for that. What has me puzzled is the link to the story's right--it's one of those thumbnail links, subbed "Intellectual Conservative." The image seemed to depict a gorilla leaning on a fencepost for a good hard think, and with the interesting subhead I decided to click. Turns out it led to one of the most angry (and poorly written and reasoned) anti-Rumsfeld diatribes I've seen in a while, by an anonymous writer on an obscure site. Why would Google link to such an irrelevant piece? The linked story had nothing to do with the antecedent story's topic, namely the ongoing violence in Iraq. It was just some anonymous writer spleen venting in the direction of the Secretary of Defense. I suspect someone at Google News is having an editorial moment when they shouldn't. Here is a screen shot. Look on the right hand side (and sorry about the file size--I didn't want to cut it down too much).

This little bit of bias may be one more reason to leave Blogger (now owned by Google), which the JYB will be doing in about a week. The new and smoother running JYB will feature actual archives, actually searchable, the return of the monster blogroll (with links that lead to real blogs!), and a swank new logo (if James gets off his duff and makes us one...). MT will drive it from stem to stern.