Facebook fails history

Damn that "liberal" media!

Damn 'em all to pieces!

Seriously now, does anyone actually believe this bullshit about the media having a liberal bias?

Social networking sites don't seem to be any more free of this bias than the traditional media.

Take Facebook, for instance.

Facebook has these little happy quizzy parties that you can take part in. One of its surveys is called the Political Idealogy (sic) Quiz.

I took this quiz and noticed a few things that were quite strange in the results. And I don't mean the fact that my results came back as "very liberal." Granted, this quiz's idea of "very liberal" is probably anyone who doesn't favor public flogging of 9-year-olds who throw paper airplanes at school. But that's not the issue here.

When a person's results come back as "very liberal", a photo of what appears to be Nancy Pelosi appears. I think Pelosi shed any pretense of being left-of-center when she refused to allow the House to consider impeachment articles against Bush.

Worse, a "very liberal" result is accompanied by the caption, "You are about as far left as you can be before heading into Stalin's backyard."

That's Facebook's idea of "humor"?

Imagine if you can what the reaction would be if Facebook said to conservatives, "You are about as far right as you can be before heading into Hitler's backyard."

The wingnutosphere would be on Facebook's case in an instant, and Fox News would make a national story of it before the day was over.

Not only that, but that would probably be the end of Facebook. Conservatives drove MP3.com out of business all because it was owned by a French firm (as France opposed the Iraq War), so think what they'd do to a major website that compared conservatives to Hitler. Then again, maybe if Facebook started ratting out dissidents to the Chinese government like Yahoo! did, it would get back in conservatives' good graces. The rightist brain trust seems to have no objection to Yahoo!'s alliance with Red China in tattling on dissenters.

Further, Stalin was not leftist. Many of his policies were in fact on the right wing of the spectrum.

We all love logging on to Facebook and seeing former classmates lambaste incompetent school administrators. (I don't think I've seen this happen yet, but you know it's going to.) But I will correct Facebook's bias and its ignorance of history.