Use this tool to learn about websites, specifically the one you just entered.
If you find some aspect of it inappropriate it is not our fault.
If you are the owner of this website: yes we are a real search engine, we do have a real web crawler called FyberSpider and you can block it if you feel the urge.
Is It Cataloged?
We are in the process of updating this tool. Until we are done just use our search results to check the inclusion status of your site.
Find out if your site has been cataloged by top search engines for only $8.99.
Below you will see site info taken directly from the URL you entered in real time. This is also known as our URL Breakdown tool and can be used independently of our site info tool.
Page Title
Michael J. Totten: Fisking Juan Cole
Stripped Text Content
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page.
"« Sick and Twisted
Home Page
Patterico Wins »
December 13, 2004
Fisking Juan Cole
I hardly ever - ever - pick fights with other bloggers. But I'm not finished with Juan Cole yet. It's long past time to give the professor from Michigan a double-whammy shellacking.
Yesterday he made up a conspiracy theory (all by himself, this time) about the Iraqi bloggers who write at Iraq the Model . A related practice has been called by Josh Marshall "astroturfing," where a "grass roots" campaign turns out actually to be sponsored by a think tank or corporation. Astroturf is fake grass used in US football arenas. What Mailander is talking about is not really astroturfing, but rather the granting of some individuals a big megaphone. He wouldn’t want to let any individuals have a big megaphone. Especially not liberal-democratic Iraqis who don’t hate America like they’re supposed to. The MR posting brings up questions about the Iraqi brothers who run the IraqTheModel site. See what I’m talking about? It points out that the views of the brothers are celebrated in the right-leaning weblogging world of the US, even though opinion polling shows that their views are far out of the mainstream of Iraqi opinion. The brothers call b.s. on this one, but I don’t know. I don’t live in Iraq. Neither does Juan Cole. We’ll see what happens after the election in January.
But why should it make any difference to the right side of the blogosphere whether or not the Iraq the Model guys are mainstream or not? They are obviously friends of Americans. They share our liberal-democratic values. They helped found the Iraq Democracy Party . They aren't running around bitching about America or cutting off heads. They're the good guys. That's why we like them.
Juan Cole would rather align himself with anti-American Iraqis like the blogger Riverbend. Okay, whatever. But I have no idea why h"
....
read entire page
