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LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement
Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.”
By Allum Bokhari, Breitbart Tech News, March 7, 2019:
The comments came to light in leaked audio files allegedly of a company-wide meeting at Google, part of which is now exclusively reported by Breitbart News. Another part of the transcript was released last Friday on Tucker Carlson Tonight, while further snippets revealing Google’s funding of establishment conservative think-tanks were published by the left-leaning tech magazine Wired in December.
Story continues below advertisementThe alleged meeting took place in the wake of Google’s sponsorship of CPAC in 2018, which triggered an internal rebellion from left-wing employees of the tech giant. Breitbart News exclusively reported on the revolt at the time, in which radical left-wingers inside Google accused CPAC of “ethno-nationalism” and “hate.”
Google has not denied the authenticity of the leaked material.
In the clips, the transcripts of which are posted in full below, Kovacevich portrayed CPAC as a conference with a “dual identity,” one being a “premier gathering” that features a “whole swath of conservatives,” including “national security conservatives, economic conservatives, libertarians, the Log Cabin Republicans, deficit hawks, small government advocates.”
In the audio clip, the other side of CPAC was described in disparaging terms by Kovacevich as featuring a “sideshow circus-like element” which “CPAC organizers have intentionally cultivated sometimes, inviting outrageous figures that say incendiary and offensive things, I think in order to draw more attention and controversy to the conference.”
“I want to be clear that we don’t agree with those things, right?” continued Kovacevich. “We abhor and rebuke the offensive things that are said at the conference. Those things obviously don’t align with Google’s values and our approach.”
“And I think it’s challenging for us to reconcile those two identities of CPAC.”
In another audio clip of the same conversation provided to Breitbart News, Kovacevich appeared to describe the importance of reaching out to conservatives in order to counter conservative media, including Breitbart News. Kovacevich warned of “growing negative attention from the conservative media which is influential among those same Republicans who control government.” He went on to accuse conservative media of “pushing the storyline that Google is biased against conservatives.”
“And of course we aim to build products for everyone but if that notion becomes accepted among conservative and Republican policymakers, that could be harmful to our mission of building products for everyone.”
The full transcript follows below:
Yeah, it’s a great question Greg. I appreciate the question. I think one of the big themes – I think picking up on your question – that I saw in some internal listservs and one of the Dory questions focused on the question of the other speakers, right? What are we saying in terms of sponsoring a conference where you have sort of incendiary speakers, right, and I think it’s a very valid question, one we’ve talked a lot about here. I think, to be candid, one of the challenges we face with CPAC is that the conference itself has a kind of a dual identity. So on the one hand, it’s really the premier gathering of sort of big-tent conservatives. Especially in non-presidential years it sort of in some ways takes the place of the annual Republican National Convention. You have a whole swath of conservatives: national security conservatives, economic conservatives, libertarians, the Log Cabin Republicans, deficit hawks, small government advocates who attend the conference. The conference is attended by about 10,000 people. And so one of the other things is that the Republican Party and I think conservatism, in general, is also going through a lot of internal debates about what it should be, right, what should be sort of the position of the party. And I think that’s one that we should be involved in because we, I think, want probably — the majority of Googlers would want to steer conservatives and Republicans more towards a message of liberty and freedom and away from the more sort of nationalistic incendiary comments, nativist comments and things like that. But it has been a very valuable place for us to reach a lot of the people and the big tent of conservatism.
On the other hand, and sort of to get to the point of the dual identity, in recent years with CPAC there has also been this kind of sideshow circus-like element, right, that I think the CPAC organizers have intentionally cultivated sometimes, inviting outrageous figures that say incendiary and offensive things, I think in order to draw more attention and controversy to the conference. I want to be clear that we don’t agree with those things, right? We abhor and rebuke the offensive things that are said at the conference. Those things obviously don’t align with Google’s values and our approach. And I think that it’s challenging for us to reconcile those two identities of CPAC. I think one of the things that — we also face this question in other areas, by the way. So in the realm of sort of politics, there’s always going to — there’s often going to be someone at some event we sponsor who will say something we don’t agree with. Last year, a group that we support, the New America Foundation, had your guys’s, one of your Senators, Elizabeth Warren. She spoke, and she called for the breakup of Google at that [laughter] conference, right? The conference of an organization we support. Obviously we don’t support that position.
In another audio clip provided exclusively to Breitbart News, Kovacevich discusses “growing negative attention” from conservative media, including Breitbart News.
One of the other things we’re dealing with is also growing negative attention from the conservative media which is influential among those same Republicans who control government. We have sites like Breitbart and Daily Caller and Fox News who have been focusing on some of the tensions that we Googlers feel internally around — many of which became public after the Damore memo. And I think some of those media outlets are actively pushing the storyline that Google is biased against conservatives. And of course we aim to build products for everyone but if that notion becomes accepted among conservative and Republican policymakers, that could be harmful to our mission of building products for everyone. So one of the things we say out on our team is, in order to count on an ally in the political realm you have to make an ally. If we want policymakers to help us when we have a bad bill or a regulation pending, we have to build relationships with them ahead of time. I think part of our work in the DC office and across all of our team is building relationships not just with the people in power but also with the people who influence them.
In a followup question, Kovacevich also acknowledged the “pain” and “disappointment” of Google employees who were up in arms at the tech giant’s sponsorship of CPAC in 2018. He went on to openly disparage sites like Breitbart and the Daily Caller as outlets that might be “perpetually” at odds with Google, and state “blatant mistruths.”
Questioner: Okay. Second question is– you mentioned Breitbart and The Daily Caller a couple of times before in the talk. Are we orienting our public image so that we will receive less negative and maybe more positive press from sites like Breitbart and Daily Caller?
Kovacevich: I think it’s a complicated question. I mean, I think at a certain point our values are our values, right? Google stands for inclusiveness, we stand for tolerance, we stand for building products for everyone, and if certain outlets don’t like that, we are probably going to be at odds with them perpetually, right? On the other hand, sometimes some outlets and others just state blatant kind of mistruths, right, or they’ll shade something in sort of the most– you know, that has a legitimate explanation, they’ll shade something in sort of the most negative light possible, and that’s something that we try to avoid, if we can, consistent with our values. I think– and I want to probably wrap up because we’re almost at the hour– look, I appreciate that this is hard and I know that our sponsorship of this has caused pain, disappointment to many of you and we understand that, and I think appreciate those of you who have spoken up about that. I value that Google is the kind of company where people can voice their disappointment and their hopes for how the company can stay true to its ideals going forward in the future. We certainly didn’t mean to cause pain or that kind of disappointment in people. And we really do value the feedback and the input.
Breitbart News has reached out to Google for comment.
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21 Comments
5 years ago
Anyone stopping this?
Folks the 2020 election is happening NOW!
Texas is the state they are after. Without Texas in 2020, can we win with the electoral vote?
I have no doubt that DEMS taking over Congress is already influencing a job hiring drop…
Pelosi: Texas ‘Ground Zero’ in 2020—Will Change World When It Turns Blue
By Tony Lee
3/7/19
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this week that Texas will be “ground zero” for Democrats in 2020 and predicted that when Texas turns blue soon, it will change the country and the world.
(She’s right! That will be the downfall of the U.S.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/pelosi-texas-ground-zero-in-2020-will-change-world-when-it-turns-blue/
Trump Requests ‘More’ Foreign Workers as Southern Border Gets Overrun
By John Binder
3/7/19
President Trump continues to request “more” foreign workers enter the United States to take American jobs that would otherwise go to sidelined U.S. workers as the southern border is overrun with record levels of illegal immigration.
…
The push for more legal immigration was first made in off-the-cuff comments at his State of the Union address, where he said he wanted to admit “the largest numbers ever” of legal immigrants to the country.
…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/trump-requests-more-foreign-workers-as-southern-border-gets-overrun/
America Created Just 20,000 Jobs in February
By John Carney
3/8/19
The American economy added a paltry 20,000 jobs in February. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8 percent, the government said Friday.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/03/08/jobsfebruary/
5 years ago
Surely there are plenty of techno geeks out there for all this babble to be presented in plain English for ordinary mortals to grasp. How about “painting a word picture” as I put it where those from conservative viewpoints stress the importance and happiness of airing all ideas in the market place for ideas so that people can hear, think and choose which to follow.
After all, it’s socialism which has murdered and enslaved millions in poverty across the world since its inception and perhaps even some snowflake or SJW would pause for thought if what they support now {persecuting conservative thought and speech} led them to the delights of ” living the dream” that Venezuelans are trying to escape from.
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
The SJW would not pause. Although socialism has failed, every time that it was tried, it just wasn’t implemented correctly. It wasn’t true socialism. That’s the response that you’ll receive. I’m making book and offering ten-to-one odds; that response would be given over 90% of the time.
5 years ago
Gee, since I can’t think for myself I feel so lucky to have Google there to tell me what to think and to steer my thoughts away from those nasty nationalistic incendiary comments and more toward inclusiveness and diversity. NOT!!!
Obviously, having unbiased search results would be asking for too much.
5 years ago
Reply to
Citizen 1949
You read my mind on this one. I agree on the unbiased search results. It’s blatantly obvious. I haven’t figured out yet if these Googlers as they proclaim themselves, are living in reality.
5 years ago
Is Google Evil ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Goolag decided to reduce its three word motto to two: Be Evil.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Goolag decided to reduce its three word motto to two: Be Evil.
5 years ago
CPAC controlled by Google gave Communist Van Jones a speaking slot yet banned Laura Loomer.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
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5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
The reason that Ms. Loomer was stripped of her already issued press credentials, and denied entry, is simply because she is Jewish. CPAC is a moslem run organization.
5 years ago
We’re not far from the re-education camps now. The thought police are openly demonstrating it…
5 years ago
For an employee of Gulag to speak of “liberty and freedom” is laughable — but when you lay down w/muslum dogs what else can you expect?
5 years ago
“Steering”? Yeah, we’re like cattle to them.
5 years ago
“Steering”? Yeah, we’re like cattle to them.
5 years ago
Break up this racist inducing business. They discriminate against people like myself and people
that fight against marxism, socialism, communism and oppressive style governments.
Google is already there and with their world-wide reach they are able to shut down any
information that reveals their shenanigans. We have all been victims of their oppression
and still are. Break up google! Limit them and institute strict regulations.
5 years ago
Good old James O’Keefe and Project Veritas has just exposed fakebook’s similar schemes. A woman, that lost her job and lived on food stamps for months, came forward when she discovered internal memos about programs written to de-platform conservative comments by not allowing them to be re-posted WITHOUT notifying the publisher of the comment or video. People like James Crowder and other conservative commentators were effectively censored without being aware of it. Talk about outside influence on an election!
