Comments on: Q: How Much Do The Republicans Love Twitter? http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Johnny Pez http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136380 Johnny Pez Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:49:06 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136380 Do Republicans really believe they can save their party by Twittering "TAXES ARE TEH SUCK" to each other? Do Republicans really believe they can save their party by Twittering “TAXES ARE TEH SUCK” to each other?

]]> By: Tyro http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136357 Tyro Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:21:17 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136357 <i>I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less.</i> Ironically, conservatism is an ideology of extremes when it comes to the internet. Their online presence is either Instapundit (Indeed. Heh.) and Twitter or, on the other side of the verbosity spectrum, Steven Des Beste. I've found no use for Twitter beyond remote updates to my Facebook status. Something I don't do more than a couple times a month, anyway. I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less.

Ironically, conservatism is an ideology of extremes when it comes to the internet. Their online presence is either Instapundit (Indeed. Heh.) and Twitter or, on the other side of the verbosity spectrum, Steven Des Beste.

I’ve found no use for Twitter beyond remote updates to my Facebook status. Something I don’t do more than a couple times a month, anyway.

]]> By: limulus http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136343 limulus Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:50:13 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136343 Hmm... the CNet article doesn't really explain how it's a breach of security protocol, so I'm a bit skeptical. But the conservatives really have been embracing Twitter. Seems like they're having more success there than any other Internet medium. I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less. Hmm… the CNet article doesn’t really explain how it’s a breach of security protocol, so I’m a bit skeptical.

But the conservatives really have been embracing Twitter. Seems like they’re having more success there than any other Internet medium. I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less.

]]> By: jr http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136332 jr Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:56:18 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136332 "I'm doing on twitter what you did on tv"-Pete to Geraldo “I’m doing on twitter what you did on tv”-Pete to Geraldo

]]> By: Enlightened Liberal http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136327 Enlightened Liberal Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:20:05 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136327 Hoekstra Statement on New York Times Mea Culpa Share This Page Slashdot Del.icio.us Google Digg Reddit Newsvine Furl Yahoo Facebook Washington, Oct 25, 2006 - U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after New York Times public editor Byron Calame declared his newspaper wrong for publishing a story on the illegally disclosed Terrorist Finance Tracking Program: Yep, just as I thought. IOKIYAR. Cue Republicans claiming false equivalencies in 3...2...1.. http://hoekstra.house.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=51935 “The mea culpa of the New York Times public editor comes too late to stop the damage done to one of our nation’s leading tools to track, understand and prevent the money transfers that enable terrorist attacks. While the editor should be recognized for being the only one at the paper to recognize this was an irresponsible action, he should have been harsher on his fellow editors for ignoring pleadings of congressional leaders, the administration, including the Treasury Secretary, and the leaders of the 9/11 commission, which recommended America implement exactly this type of program, not to publish this story. Hoekstra Statement on New York Times Mea Culpa

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Washington, Oct 25, 2006 – U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after New York Times public editor Byron Calame declared his newspaper wrong for publishing a story on the illegally disclosed Terrorist Finance Tracking Program:

Yep, just as I thought. IOKIYAR. Cue Republicans claiming false equivalencies in 3…2…1..

http://hoekstra.house.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=51935

“The mea culpa of the New York Times public editor comes too late to stop the damage done to one of our nation’s leading tools to track, understand and prevent the money transfers that enable terrorist attacks. While the editor should be recognized for being the only one at the paper to recognize this was an irresponsible action, he should have been harsher on his fellow editors for ignoring pleadings of congressional leaders, the administration, including the Treasury Secretary, and the leaders of the 9/11 commission, which recommended America implement exactly this type of program, not to publish this story.

]]> By: Repack Rider http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/06/q-how-much-do-the-republicans-love-twitter/#comment-136314 Repack Rider Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:08:40 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12803#comment-136314 A Republican without a clue? Stop the presses. A Republican without a clue?

Stop the presses.

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