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Geraldo OBL Coverage Drives Viewers Away From Fox News

02 May

A small sampling of twitter activity at the height of the Geraldo coverage of the biggest story of the decade is very telling, especially the Peter Doocy shout out.

Phil Kerpen
kerpenPhil Kerpen 
How many people have to show up before Geraldo is off the air?
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Erik Telford
JoeTaxpayerErik Telford 
I have a feeling that Osama Bin Laden is in Hell right now being forced to watch Geraldo on Fox News…
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Michelle Malkin
michellemalkinMichelle Malkin 
Ugh. Switching the channel before Geraldo starts in on an open-borders rant.
 
 
Erik Telford
JoeTaxpayerErik Telford 
Please join me in kindly asking @foxnews to get a real host on asap. Make it stop. Please god make it stop. #Geraldo
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Raz Shafer
razshaferRaz Shafer 
All the anchors are sucking it up with the commentary but Geraldo takes the #1 ass hat award.
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Kim
That does it. I’m actually turning on CNN. I can’t take Geraldo anymore. I guess Fox keeps him as a token dufus.
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Erik Telford
JoeTaxpayerErik Telford
Dear Fox – even Peter Doocy would be an improvement.
 
And of course, Geraldo being Geraldo
 
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Posted by on May 2, 2011 in Geraldo, Social Media

 

New Virginia Delegate Tweets His Emergency Room Experience

19 Jan

We all remember when White House correspondent Tommy Christopher Tweeted his heart attack, well we now have an interesting string of tweets from Virginia’s newest member of the House of Delegates. Greg Habeeb, who was elected in a special election to fill the seat of Rep. Morgan Griffith, is one of the most active legislators on Twitter. Last night  after a full day of delegate duties he elected to get a little exercise by shooting some hoops and ended up in the ER. I’ll let his tweets tell you the rest of the story.

Playing a little bipartisan basketball at VCU. I’m too old for this. about 10 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

Yeah, remember when I said I’m too old to be playing bball? To prove the point, I’m now at the VCU ER. Yay new guy. about 9 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

So the 2 big bulges aren’t usually there. http://plixi.com/p/70934558 about 8 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

@notlarrysabato Come on man. That foot shot was beautiful. I’m guessing my twitter followers are throwing up as I type. about 8 hours ago via ÜberTwitter in reply to notlarrysabato

Awesome. My foot’s broken in a couple spots. Just keeps getting better and better. about 7 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

For the record, I made the basket on the play I broke my foot. about 7 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

I’m waiting patiently for RPV or the Speaker to issue an official condolences statement for my foot. Forget HD91, this is serious guys. about 7 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

They look at you kind of funny when you fill a Percocet prescription at 1am. about 5 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

 
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Posted by on January 19, 2011 in Greg Habeeb, politics, Social Media, Virginia General Assembly

 

“The Vietnamese are coming!”

28 Sep

Van Tran, the conservative Republican running for the House in CA-47, is a class act.  His Democrat opponent, incumbent liberal Rep. Loretta Sanchez…is not.  Here’s the most recent reason why.

PJM interviewed Tran about Sanchez’s openly racial appeal to get herself re-elected.  It’s good stuff – check it out here.

 
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Posted by on September 28, 2010 in politics, Social Media

 

White House Reporter Who Live Tweeted Heart Attack, Blogs Recovery

26 Sep

Tommy Christopher, a White House reporter for Mediaite who gained notoriety for live tweeting his heart attack, is recovering and was kind enough to post a very in-depth update and look back on the experience (the photo and description of his chest incision and tubal insertion points is especially insightful).

I remember many years ago they suggested we send a journalist along with the Apollo astronauts  because the astronauts were not able to relate the impact of the experience into words and of course a skilled wordsmith could describe the sights, sounds, and emotions of the mission in a way the average reader could feel like they were onboard. Well, Tommy’s live tweeting and posts have eerily brought his followers along the very sobering and frightening journey through his unfortunate ailment. 

Tommy, we thank you for taking us along and we wish you a full and speedy recovery.

 
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Posted by on September 26, 2010 in Social Media, Tommy Christopher

 
 
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