Posted on 05/04/2010 1:08:53 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, First Lady Michelle Obama ventured into unfamiliar territory: the twitterverse. Prompted by CNN’s Ed Henry, Mrs. Obama sent her first tweet in the middle of the dinner from @edhenrycnn’s account.
"from flotus: 'here at dinner this is officially my first Tweet. i am looking forward to some good laughs from the potus and jay,” read the message, referring to both her husband and comedian Jay Leno’s remarks which followed shortly after.
After the dinner Henry blogged about not only coercing the First Lady, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, but the President himself into allowing the tweet.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Hey Michelle I don’t care!
“Does this tweet make my A$$ look big?”
We hopefully will need new terminology in a couple years, how about "fdotus?"
Good God — ABC has degenerated from the semi-professionalism of Frank Reynolds, Howard K. Smith, and Peter Jennings to reporting about the FLOTUS’s first Tweet!!
LOL!
Somebody’s jealous of Sarah.....
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