Put me on your friends list, Meghan...
Posted on 04/23/2009 2:34:23 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Meghan McCain says we need to take back Twitter from the creepy people—like Karl Rove, "America’s Toughest Sheriff," and the other undesirables who now follow her every Tweet.
Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That’s creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. It’s allowed me to share the less-serious aspects and humorously uncensored moments of my life. But there’s also been a downside: I am now being followed by Karl Rove, and my local sheriff, and God knows how many other political pundits. We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people.
On the surface, Karl Rove’s Twitter feed intrigues me. Here’s a guy who for years has been perceived as some kind of inaccessible man-behind-the-curtain figure. And now he Tweets numerous times a day. I’ve never met him in person, which only makes our Twitter relationship even weirder. And to be honest, I find Rove’s Tweets boring. Sometimes he takes questions; other times he talks about his appearances on cable news and other shows. But he doesn’t say anything substantive. If I had to guess, I’d say Rove has a “ghost Twitterer” (as in a ghost writer) or an assistant updating his feed for him.
Oddly enough, Rove’s Tweets seem to reveal a softer side to him. Call it savvy marketing, but I find it disingenuous. And it’s a bit weird to think his people—not even Rove himself—are following me. I’d like to think it’s because they find what I’m saying entertaining, but I can’t help thinking they’re just trying to seem connected to young people.
The Twitter creeps gets stranger. My local Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who, as the author of America’s Toughest Sheriff, is notorious in his own right) recently sent me a Tweet about an answer I gave a fellow Twitter follower. He tried to tell me to go easy on them. It’s really scary when the guy who houses his inmates in tents in the summer and whose most visible public-relations success involves pink underwear, boxers, and handcuffs tells you to tone it down. The sheriff also inexplicably Tweeted me to say my mother owes him $10. Say what?
But media-hungry politicians aren’t the only ones creeping me out on Twitter. Certain media outlets seem to want to ruin it for the rest of us, too. I was shocked when Think Progress and The Huffington Post reported on one of my Tweets—and even more shocked when HuffPo made it their front-page story. I replied “Hey HuffPo, I am Twittering in bed in my pajamas, wanna report that too?” It went unanswered, of course.
I refuse to “script” who I am, what I say, and what I do. The only person Tweeting on my account is me. I don’t have an assistant, friend, or spokesperson updating my feed to “represent” me. (Seriously, would an assistant swear so much?) But this made me consider censoring myself. Who knows the next time The Huffington Post will have a slow news day and feel compelled to stick a headline next to a particularly unflattering photo of me? My Tweets are not sound bytes. Of course, I recognize I’m choosing to Tweet, but seriously, can’t journalists find something more important and useful to report?
By contrast, my Dad—another new Twitter user—is making a real effort to use it effectively and not just pander. For one thing, it’s really him Tweeting. How could it not be given his sense of humor and constant shout-outs to Arizona sports teams? (In fairness to him, I’d initially assumed he had an assistant writing for him. But when I flat-out asked him, he was almost offended I’d suggested he wasn’t being as real as I am.) Second, my dad prides himself on making his updates more than just, “Watch me on Fox News tonight at 7.” And he’s always amused by the attitude I show in my updates—like father, like daughter.
In the end, Twitter is still maturing as a means to reach out and communicate with people en masse. But I can’t shake the fact that Karl Rove is following me—it can be creepy. So watch out.
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Next stop: best obesity clinic McQueeg can find.
The McCains are the Herpes virus of the republican party.
I prefer to spell her name thus: MEgan
Gosh, Meghan, what did you SAY? He really TWITTED you?
He tried to tell me to go easy on them. It’s really scary when the guy who houses his inmates in tents in the summer and whose most visible public-relations success involves pink underwear, boxers, and handcuffs tells you to tone it down.
Gosh Meghan, you were on The View today.
What color were their underwearz over there? LOLZ!
The sheriff also inexplicably Tweeted me to say my mother owes him $10. Say what?
OMG, yo mama a ho???? LOLZ!
Some people really want her to be the face of the Republican party.. luckily, the Republicans for the most part are sick of her.. Maybe she can give the Libertarians a shot.
I would rather stare into a toilet than read anything from this fat idiot.
Put me on your friends list, Meghan...
I tweeted her saying if she wants to stop creeps from following her, keep tweeting the boring ass stuff she is tweeting because it’s laaaaaaaaame.
I’m surprised nobody has twisted her name around yet into something like how her dad’s was used: “Juan McSame,” “McLame,” etc.
OK, I’ll go first: Mega McPain!
I don't like the father's politics, but I will defend him on this point.
Meghan, you don't have an ounce of the class or fortitude that your father has. He loves his country. Do you? He spent 5 years as a POW and came home with his head and shoulders held high. You wouldn't last an hour in the checkout line at Macy's.
I agree, let us let the weaselette fade into the sunset. I don’t even read most of the threads with her name in the title but I see it way too much.
Wow she really is a jerk.
Ha Ha Ha she actually had the nerve to refer to “media hungry politicians”?? This woman is the original media whore.
Makin McBlame
He “bores” you Meghan because you don’t have a brain.
http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/1580474285
“I am not saying to Christian conservatives, There is no place for you. I am saying, Please stop saying there is no place for us.”
Basically, Jesus needs to shut up per Meghan.
Hey Meghan... you're creepy. Go away! Your 15 minutes was up long ago...
That twit’s 15 minutes were up last November.
The MSM is keeping her on public life support as a useful idiot.
As I listened to her on Larry “Cadaver” King, I kept thinking about something about which Boortz frequently reminds his male audience: “At some point, you’ll have to try to have a conversation with her.” I also kept thinking that she HAS to be from California until I remembered that Arizona also has valleys.
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