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McCain Uses Twitter to Reveal Top 10 Porkiest Projects
IHateTheMedia.com ^ | 02/28/09

Posted on 02/28/2009 7:31:48 AM PST by slomark

McCain, a lifelong opponent of earmarks, released his list of the top ten porkiest projects in the Omnibus Spending bill the Congress is about to pass. Did he hold a press conference or release a statement to the press? No, instead, he went to the new media–but not Facebook or Youtube. He choose the new rising star in social media, Twitter. He merely made a tweet yesterday that began with “”Tmr I am gonna tweet the TOP TEN PORKIEST PROJECTS in the Omnibus Spending bill the Congress is about to pass”. And his 110,000 followers were instantly alerted, who in turn most likely passed it on to millions of their followers within minutes.

And today he released them. Here is John McCain’s Top 10 Porkiest Projects list:

(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhobudget; earmarks; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; porkulus; spending; twitter
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1 posted on 02/28/2009 7:31:49 AM PST by slomark
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To: slomark

LOL! The MSM said he didn’t use a computer. I don’t even twitter...whatever that is.


2 posted on 02/28/2009 7:36:27 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Let the Revolution Commence!!!)
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To: slomark

alt headline: “Twit uses Twitter”


3 posted on 02/28/2009 7:37:31 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: theDentist

~~~snicker~~~


4 posted on 02/28/2009 7:38:17 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Let the Revolution Commence!!!)
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To: slomark

“McCain, a lifelong opponent of earmarks,”

What a joke this guy is............

He endorsed TARP 1 on the drop of a hat.

He tried to pass a disaster of bill with Ted Kennedy on Immigration.

Go Back to SLEEP .........”MCSTOOGE”! YOU are an EARMARK!

Move to Mexico where you belong!


5 posted on 02/28/2009 7:38:27 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: slomark

Is that why McCain ran back to DC to vote for the first bailout last fall? Maybe he can twitter that


6 posted on 02/28/2009 7:39:42 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: slomark

As I wrote on the other thread on this topic, here are my top three pork projects:

1. The entire department of education
2. The entire commerce department
3. The entire energy department.

Zero them out and you’ve made a good start. McCain the piker is sweating the small stuff.


7 posted on 02/28/2009 7:40:12 AM PST by DManA
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To: slomark

Show some respect. It’s John McCain. Leader of the twitter revolution, DAMMIT!


8 posted on 02/28/2009 7:40:34 AM PST by TADSLOS (Come and Take it!)
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To: slomark
WHAT???????? He stopped his champaign and flew to Washington for the first Pork Fest.

Look when the Senile old Fart calls Children of an Invading Army “Gods Children” He needs to leave the Country.

9 posted on 02/28/2009 7:44:59 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: theDentist
“Twit uses Twitter”

LOL This is how a perfectly good keyboard eventually gets worn, when I waste coffee spewing it uncontrollably laughing at something I read on Freep. (Is that less than 170 characters?)

Honestly, I am trying to get the hang of this trend toward minimalism. (A fat lot of good it did the Japanese!)

I can see where it would have an idea attractiveness to a Congressman, or a State legislature. Very few of them have the attention spans of circus monkeys.

10 posted on 02/28/2009 7:48:26 AM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: slomark

Ol’ John has them all atwitter. So bipartisan. So techno-savvy. Such a hipster. Why, that’s exactly the sort of Senator we need, lol.


11 posted on 02/28/2009 7:50:57 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Prospero

Same happens to me... luckily I work where keyboards are replaced so often no one notices when I switch out one coffeed keyboard one for another.


12 posted on 02/28/2009 7:52:58 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: TADSLOS
Show some respect. It’s John McCain. Leader of the twitter revolution

And just how did John McCain, famous for not even writing his own e-mails, acquire 110,000 people for his little Tweet?

13 posted on 02/28/2009 7:53:22 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
And just how did John McCain, famous for not even writing his own e-mails, acquire 110,000 people for his little Tweet?

Those are all the leftover McCain.com trolls he still owes coffee mugs and t-shirts to. He's gotta keep his base happy somehow.

14 posted on 02/28/2009 7:58:26 AM PST by TADSLOS (Come and Take it!)
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To: TADSLOS

Mccain, what happened to your promise of naming names and making them famous


15 posted on 02/28/2009 7:59:08 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: slomark
#5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi”

I would like to try my hand at beaver management. I would volunteer my services so the $650,000 can be used for other purposes. Matter of fact, this project would easily be staffed by volunteers!

McCain is right. There is no need for the disbursement of funds.

16 posted on 02/28/2009 8:01:19 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45

McCain=Credibility Zero.


17 posted on 02/28/2009 8:04:01 AM PST by Venturer
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To: RegulatorCountry

Isn’t he the same guy who doesn’t know how to email messages?


18 posted on 02/28/2009 8:09:02 AM PST by hdstmf
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To: slomark

McCain twitters? Twitter is just about right for him and his “style”.

Wouldn’t his admirers in the media give him a microphone and camera to make these complaints about the ripoffs?


19 posted on 02/28/2009 8:14:11 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: hdstmf

He’s reportedly unable to type, due to injuries received while he was a POW.


20 posted on 02/28/2009 8:17:18 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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