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Meghan McCain: Help! I'm being followed on Twitter by former Bush administration bigwig Karl Rove
NY Daily News ^ | 4-20-2009

Posted on 04/20/2009 4:10:22 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Meghan McCain: Help! I'm being followed on Twitter by former Bush administration bigwig Karl Rove BY Michael Saul DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Updated Monday, April 20th 2009, 4:29 PM

The daughter of 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain fingered Rove, former President George Bush's political guru, as an Internet stalker in her latest blog posting Monday.

"Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That's creepy," wrote McCain, 24, on the DailyBeast website.

McCain wrote she joined Twitter a few months ago because it allowed her to share the "less serious" and "humorously uncensored moments" of her life. Twitter, the wildly popular microblogging platform, constrains messaging to 140 characters or less.

"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," McCain wrote. "We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people."

McCain said she's intrigued by Rove's Twitter feeds because at the White House Rove was viewed as this "inaccessible man-behind-the-curtain figure," and, now, he's sending out these public messages numerous times a day.

But "to be honest, I find Rove's Tweets boring," McCain wrote. "Sometimes he takes questions; other times he talks about his appearances on cable news and other shows. But he doesn't say anything substantive."

McCain wrote she suspected Rove has a "ghost Twitterer," meaning she believes an assistant is updating his feeds instead of Rove doing it himself personally.

While McCain acknowledged that Rove's Tweets seem to reveal a "softer side" to him, she believes he's being "disingenuous" about his real self.

McCain also took issue with online media outlets, such as The Huffington Post, reporting about one of her Tweets.

"I replied "Hey HuffPo, I am Twittering in bed in my pajamas, wanna report that too?" It went unanswered, of course," she wrote.

McCain mistakenly assumed her dad employed a ghost twitterer.

"I'd initially assumed he had an assistant writing for him," she wrote, referring to her dad. "But when I flat-out asked him, he was almost offended I'd suggested he wasn't being as real as I am." McCain praised Twitter as a means of communication. Still, she wrote, "I can't shake the fact that Karl Rove is following me-it can be creepy. So watch out."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: karlrove; mccain; meghanmccain; rinoette; rove; twitter
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1 posted on 04/20/2009 4:10:23 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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Someone tell the numbskull she can “block” anyone she wants on Twitter.

“Journalism” in the 21st Century: repetition of the press releases and utterances of any liberal idiot.


2 posted on 04/20/2009 4:11:58 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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Help!

FR is being bombarded by RINO Princess postings.

3 posted on 04/20/2009 4:12:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Pagan Meghan would burn out her last remaining brain cell to come up with that one.


4 posted on 04/20/2009 4:12:51 PM PDT by Blogger (It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Ben Franklin)
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nitwitbitc*


5 posted on 04/20/2009 4:13:01 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: My Favorite Headache

And she is a filthy little girl


6 posted on 04/20/2009 4:13:30 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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I need someone to post Viking Kitties or Bunnies with pancakes on their heads in this thread to keep me from just run screaming away from my computer.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would ratehr people post non-stop articles about Miley Cyrus than see yet another pointless piece about this vacuous valley girl sounding moron.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 04/20/2009 4:13:46 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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No, Meghan, that’s a McDonald’s bag in your hand...not Karl Rove.


8 posted on 04/20/2009 4:14:03 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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Can we vote this plus-size blonde bimbo off the GOP island, ... say in favor of Miss California?!


9 posted on 04/20/2009 4:14:16 PM PDT by maggief
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She wishes.


10 posted on 04/20/2009 4:14:28 PM PDT by Toespi
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11 posted on 04/20/2009 4:14:29 PM PDT by lewisglad
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Poor Cindy. Nine months of carrying her and then....


12 posted on 04/20/2009 4:15:08 PM PDT by RandyGH (Democrats--So far left they've left America)
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Is Karl trying to put a yolk around her shoulders and plow a field?


13 posted on 04/20/2009 4:16:24 PM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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Vapid.


14 posted on 04/20/2009 4:16:41 PM PDT by Francis McClobber
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I really believe she has gone off the deep end.

15 posted on 04/20/2009 4:18:03 PM PDT by Joiseydude (Kate Smith - God Bless America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCavKL2zdjM GREAT visual interpretatio)
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Maybe it’s already been said on the other threads, but she is quickly crossing the line from stupid and clueless to unstable and unhinged.


16 posted on 04/20/2009 4:19:50 PM PDT by KJC1
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The girl is a prima donna!
Needs to grow up!


17 posted on 04/20/2009 4:20:00 PM PDT by Milligan
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I see creepy people!


18 posted on 04/20/2009 4:21:57 PM PDT by maggief
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This is what Meghan needs.


19 posted on 04/20/2009 4:23:51 PM PDT by Joiseydude (Kate Smith - God Bless America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCavKL2zdjM GREAT visual interpretatio)
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You mean they dare answer her mini screeds. Oh the nerve of that Karl Rove!


20 posted on 04/20/2009 4:25:34 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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