I know Google has a supernaturally healthy corporate culture and everything but surely some of them get irritated by smug posts like this from Matt Cutts. Wherein he thinks that that the justifiable outrage over Lauren Turner naked plea for health care astroturf money is actually a teachable moment for corporate bloggers everywhere, and thus presents his Corporate Blogging 101 mini-lecture. I hate parsing Matt Cutts, because its become over the years a cottage industry all its own, but this post is really off the mark - and if this the final word from Google on it…fuck a bunch of them. I wonder if the Corporate Blogging 101 part is something he already had in the can that he quickly adapted to this issue because points such as…

Don’t post when you’re angry.

If you make a mistake, don’t clam up.

Seem a little digressive from the point. However parts like this

Learn which stories matter and which ones don’t. You don’t have to respond to every criticism that someone makes. If a story is little more than insults, maybe it’s better to work on developing a thicker skin. And sometimes people are just baiting you trying to get attention. Usually there is a core issue that someone is angry about though. Tackle that issue and don’t sweat the insults.

Guess what Mr Cutts, I’m not baiting you or Lauren Turner to get your attention. A. I wont benefit 1 bit from Googles attention and B. the people who need to pay attention are the all those visitors to your websites that put their trust in you. You are also violating your own advice in this post, because you seem to think the core issue is best practices of corporate blogging. The core issue is Google Ad Sales publicly advocating for the healthcare industry to use Google to smear some FUD all over Sicko

You are perfectly comfortable restricting advertising on themes you consider disagreeable. I am similarly comfortable telling you that an open call for HMO spin, is more than disagreeable to me, its fighting words. It’s not respecting the 1st amendment when you do this, it is encouraging people who give you a lot of money, to give you more money when you assist them in promulgating their PR about contrarian views to their harmful business models that already dominate the thoughts and lives of American citizens. I take it you Googlers wouldn’t have a problem with running the healthcare indsutry’s fake news stories (video news releases) as Google Video Advertising? I think that is the reasonable conclusion to draw from the commentary on the issue, and I think that the vast majority of your users would disagree..