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John McCain's a Twitterer. Seriously.
Call it the 140-Characters-or-Fewer Express.
John McCain, the failed Republican presidential candidate who said last year that he doesn't know how to use a computer, is apparently "twittering" his thoughts on government spending.
This is not a joke.
McCain, a self-defined maverick, has jumped on the twitterwagon pulled by Sen. Claire McCaskill and a bunch of other members of Congress. A couple of his "tweets" (ugh) even have exclamation points, characterizing the emotions that he tried so hard to convey during the campaign.
The Arizona senator's updates range from the dry ("Having breakfast with secretary gates @ the pentagon") to the very dry ["attending subcommittee on federal financial managment" (sic)]. He also has Top 10 lists of what he considers daily wasteful spending projects ("on my way to the floor to continue to talk pork").
For those of you who doubt McCain's technical abilities, think again. MSNBC reported that McCain is twittering his tweets all by his twittery self. Or you can take it from the twitterer, who proclaimed in a Feb. 26 tweet at 9:07 am, "YEs!! I am twittering on my blackberry but not without a little help!"
On the Senate floor, McCain also announced, "I've begun to twitter, and we've been tweeting for the last week the top 10 earmarks every day." In another text burst, McCain professes that twittering is his "new found love."
The online social network/trendy craze has been the subject of scores of articles over the past couple of weeks, highlighting its use by lawmakers and prominent TV journalists alike. Its actual news value is debatable, but its potential for encouraging ADHD behavior is indisputable. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said of twittering members of Congress during Barack Obama's budget speech, "They whipped out their BlackBerrys and began sending text messages like high school kids bored in math class."
It's also comforting to know that textual sound-bite journalism hasn't yet infiltrated all journalists' offices. Politico's top editors vowed never to twitter, despite some of their reporters' accounts.
And in case you want to find yours truly on Twitter, you begrudgingly can. But I'll save you some time. I last tweeted more than two months ago, after I read that if I ever wanted to amount to anything successful, I would have to sign up for an account. My last words were, "Matt Negrin is removing twitter from the 'journalism' category." Maybe that's why McCain has more than 150,000 "followers," and I have 31.
John McCain, the failed Republican presidential candidate who said last year that he doesn't know how to use a computer, is apparently "twittering" his thoughts on government spending.
This is not a joke.
McCain, a self-defined maverick, has jumped on the twitterwagon pulled by Sen. Claire McCaskill and a bunch of other members of Congress. A couple of his "tweets" (ugh) even have exclamation points, characterizing the emotions that he tried so hard to convey during the campaign.
The Arizona senator's updates range from the dry ("Having breakfast with secretary gates @ the pentagon") to the very dry ["attending subcommittee on federal financial managment" (sic)]. He also has Top 10 lists of what he considers daily wasteful spending projects ("on my way to the floor to continue to talk pork").
For those of you who doubt McCain's technical abilities, think again. MSNBC reported that McCain is twittering his tweets all by his twittery self. Or you can take it from the twitterer, who proclaimed in a Feb. 26 tweet at 9:07 am, "YEs!! I am twittering on my blackberry but not without a little help!"
On the Senate floor, McCain also announced, "I've begun to twitter, and we've been tweeting for the last week the top 10 earmarks every day." In another text burst, McCain professes that twittering is his "new found love."
The online social network/trendy craze has been the subject of scores of articles over the past couple of weeks, highlighting its use by lawmakers and prominent TV journalists alike. Its actual news value is debatable, but its potential for encouraging ADHD behavior is indisputable. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said of twittering members of Congress during Barack Obama's budget speech, "They whipped out their BlackBerrys and began sending text messages like high school kids bored in math class."
It's also comforting to know that textual sound-bite journalism hasn't yet infiltrated all journalists' offices. Politico's top editors vowed never to twitter, despite some of their reporters' accounts.
And in case you want to find yours truly on Twitter, you begrudgingly can. But I'll save you some time. I last tweeted more than two months ago, after I read that if I ever wanted to amount to anything successful, I would have to sign up for an account. My last words were, "Matt Negrin is removing twitter from the 'journalism' category." Maybe that's why McCain has more than 150,000 "followers," and I have 31.
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Angiebaby
8:53AM 8:53AM Mar 7th 2009
Good Morning, Grasshopper. Contemplate today's lesson: Twitters never win, and winners never Twit.
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whatev
8:18PM 8:18PM Mar 8th 2009
McCain's tweets are informative and interesting. I much rather have the first hand knowledge of someone on the floor that actually fighting waste than someone who said he'd stop it and isn't doing anything of the kind!!!
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BonBon
10:25AM 10:25AM Mar 7th 2009
Your the joke, McCain can twitter if he wants to, or he can have someone do the typing for him. Loser, you dems are always poking fun at the elderly.
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patchy
11:09PM 11:09PM Mar 7th 2009
THANK YOU BON BON-THE REALITY MCCAIN IS AN AMERICAN
HERO-HE IS UNABLE TO MOVE HIS ARMS PROPERLY AND BLESS
HIS HEART HE IS TWITTERING. I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN BUT WITH ALL THE SCARY BULL C GOING ON I
WONDER HOW LONG BEFORE OBAMA WILL BE IMPEACHED.
I PUT ALL THINGS IN GODS HANDS SO I AM NOT CONCERNED.
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B2Slim
8:06AM 8:06AM Mar 8th 2009
AND::::::: dead fish Rombo, Begala, Carville, etc. are tweeting for the druggie Dictator, YOU THINK ??
____OR is he personally TWEETING "HATE RUSH" HATE "JOE THE PLUMBER" "Hate Hannity" "HATE any opposition" during his RAZZLE DAZZLE all night parties eating $100. per lb of "PORK" on the taxpayer's dime ?
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richard fusilier
12:11PM 12:11PM Mar 9th 2009
It was McCain's ineptness and lack that lost the last election., not anything else unless the highly inflated cost of gasoline was calculated or contrived to impel a stampede to the polls returning the recalcitrant Party back to power.
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ZekenFlorida
9:51AM 9:51AM Mar 9th 2009
Jeff Gordon fires entire pit crew
This announcement followed Gordon's decision to take advantage of President-elect Obama's scheme to employ Harlem youngsters. The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Harlem were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Gordon's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of dollars worth of high tech equipment. It was thought to be an excellent and bold move by Gordon's management team as most races are won or lost in the pits. However, Gordon got more than he bargained for!At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all 4 wheels in under 6 seconds, but within 12 seconds they had changed the paint scheme, altered the Vin number, and sold the car to Dale Jr. for 10 cases of Bud, a bag of weed,and some photos of Jeff Gordon's wife in the shower.
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The Pcola Man
9:21AM 9:21AM Mar 9th 2009
Jeff Gordon fires entire pit crew
This announcement followed Gordon's decision to take advantage of President-elect Obama's scheme to employ Harlem youngsters. The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Harlem were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Gordon's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of dollars worth of high tech equipment. It was thought to be an excellent and bold move by Gordon's management team as most races are won or lost in the pits. However, Gordon got more than he bargained for!At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all 4 wheels in under 6 seconds,but within 12 seconds they had changed the paint scheme,altered the Vin number, and sold the car to Dale Jr. for 10 cases of Bud, a bag of weed,and some photos of Jeff Gordon's wife in the shower.
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sheldon cohen
2:50PM 2:50PM Mar 9th 2009
logon to http://www.realworldnewworld.com and http://www.scohen305.blogspot.com for a no crap no drama approach to changing America and the world to the better.
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sheldon cohen
3:03PM 3:03PM Mar 9th 2009
logon to http://www.realworldnewworld.com and http://www.scohen305.blogspot.com for a no crap no drama approach to changing America and the world to the better.
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