Hilarious: Meg Whitman’s Press Secretary Gets URL Wrong, Tweets Out…Something

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by Jon Bershad | 11:20 am, October 20th, 2010

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Ah, the importance of one little letter. A couple of days ago, the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association of San Diego County endorsed Meg Whitman, something her senior consultant, Mike Murphy, tweeted out. Whitman’s press secretary, Sarah Pompei, then retweeted Murphy, however, she accidentally cut off one letter from the URL. So, instead of sending Twitter followers to a blog post about the endorsement, she sent them to a video of…something else.

Yes, it’s a video of a man in a pretty princess costume pretending to play the guitar to an Asian pop song. Either San Diego’s Deputy Sheriff’s Association is much, much, much more interesting than it sounds, or this was a mistake. More likely it’s the latter which means that there is a very confused (in a couple of ways) guy on the other side of the world right now trying to figure out why his video’s suddenly so popular.

Let this be a lesson to all of us: always watch your Twitter 140 character limit and make sure you get your shortened URLs exactly right or…this will happen. Check out the two original tweets below as well as the rocking video.

UPDATE: I’ve just been reminded that this has happened before. Watch those bit.ly’s, people!

(h/t Gizmodo)

Funniest Thing Ever, Meg Whitman, Mike Murphy, Sarah Pompei, twitter

ROCKSTEADY

HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHA oops!
tatboy

OK that is funny as hell…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

Yes, it’s a video of a man in a pretty princess costume pretending to play the guitar to an Asian pop song.

To be fair, it’s a bass guitar and he’s actually playing it. And he seems to be pretty darned good at it, too.

As for the mistake, seven different flavors of epic.
Harry Flashman

Heh.

Left or right, that’s funny.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

Well, if you can’t laugh at yourself…
Z_man723

Twitter is so worthless
sarainitaly

Hilarious! When I first read the headline, and saw the image, I thought that was the Press Sec! hahah
http://www.squidoo.com/lauriebethsgrotto Laurie Beth

I love the Internet.
SpineCrusher

sarainitaly said:
Hilarious! When I first read the headline, and saw the image, I thought that was the Press Sec! hahah

How ironic! I thought it was you, but then I realized he wan’t nearly fat or ugly enough!

You like how that works?
Arch

When we get a little distance from this election (this whole year, not just the CA gov race), we are almost certainly going to look back and consider this one of the funniest silliest seasons ever.
http://Race4Congress.com Magister

Needs more cowbell! (Terrific find)
http://none pyrope

It’s a photo of Jerry Brown’s campaign manager.
http://none pyrope

pyrope said:
It’s a photo of Jerry Brown’s campaign manager.

OK then, it’s a photo of Jerry Brown in drag.
hgovernick

pyrope said:
It’s a photo of Jerry Brown’s campaign manager.

You’re just jealous because you’ll never have anyone as talented and good looking as your life partner as the subject of the video.
GrrrlRomeo

Yeah, the funny thing is I actually thought the person’s gender presentation was secondary to the fabulous bass guitar playing. Seriously, I don’t know how anyone could mistake that for “pretending to play the guitar.”
http://none pyrope

hgovernick said:
You’re just jealous because you’ll never have anyone as talented and good looking as your life partner as the subject of the video.

You dispicable piece of shit! The best part of you ran down your mama’s leg and into the alley where she was doing business when she got knocked up. How DARE you speak about my wife.
pakattak

The video is really… REALLY weird. But I have to admit the guy (girl? I never know with transvestites) can play a pretty decent bass.