Oops: Secret Service Tweets – Then Deletes – Criticism Of Fox News

by Alex Alvarez | 4:29 pm, May 18th, 2011

» 45 comments

Running a professional Twitter account can be difficult enough as it is – you have to strike a balance between informing your followers, keeping them engaged, and making sure your content is original and relevant rather than so much white noise cluttering people’s Twitter feeds. But that all becomes doubly challenging when whomever is running your professional, official Twitter account has his or her own, personal account as well because, sometimes, the wires can get crossed.

That might be what happened to whomever was in charge of Tweeting for the Secret Service’s official Twitter account recently. “Had to monitor Fox for a story,” the Tweet read. “Can’t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.” Totes. Profesh.

ShortFormBlog chronicles Tumblr reaction to the offending Tweet, which was almost immediately deleted:

The account is a mere 9 days old. Growing pains, perhaps?

h/t ShortFormBlog

fox news, secret service, twitter

Color Me Badd

Don’t blame them, I would hate having to hear their inane BS all the time too.
CAINtheBULL

hahaha. What time was it? hahaha. The Fox morning show crew seems to fit that tweet.
Zandandido

I guess the war between Fox News and the White House is back on. He also can’t deal with high ratings either.
lane

I find this doubtful. Secret Service is very conservartive, as is law enforcement in general. They watch FNC like the rest of the world. Sounds like a prank..
felixw

The Secret Service runs a Twitter account? Was this some kind of stimulus project?
Zandandido

lane said:
I find this doubtful. Secret Service is very conservartive, as is law enforcement in general. They watch FNC like the rest of the world. Sounds like a prank..

I hope it is a prank, for more than one reason. The major reason is that NO active secret service should EVER had a twitter account. Like this “Secret Service agents tweets: helping a foreign leader out to ‘blank’ street and ‘blank’ street in ‘blank city, USA’ at ‘blank’ time on ‘blank day’. Every President/Prime Minister/Foreign leader in the world has enemies. This is a security issue, more than a Fox News/White House issue.
The Lantern of Truth

Put some cop killer rap on in the background while you watch Fox , Tweeter-boy .

That’s what King Obama does .
Jaurez

Obama is paying secret service to monitor Fox News? Just wow…
Tedderman

Boy it sucks when the truth slips out, eh lil’ foxies.
snatchax

democrats are so clueless! LOL
Zandandido

Tedderman said:
Boy it sucks when the truth slips out, eh lil’ foxies.

Guess the same goes with MSNBC, CNN, and HLN. Fox’s high ratings really does getting up in the morning a painful procedure.
yungchii

The official secret service twitter account is verified. The account from which this tweet came from does not have the trademark verification sign.

Move along people, nothing to see here.
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

The Lantern of Truth said:
Put some cop killer rap on in the background while you watch Fox , Tweeter-boy . That’s what King Obama does .

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 Thank GOD a True American Patriot like yourself is keeping the story of this THUG GANGSTA RAPPER alive, because it is RELEVANT and IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

yungchii said:
The official secret service twitter account is verified. The account from which this tweet came from does not have the trademark verification sign.

I don’t know whether someone may have faked the tweet, but the linked account is verified.

And, I know that I’ve occasionally been served obviously personal links from verified news accounts, which were quickly deleted and blamed on misclicking TweetDeck, plus sometime in the past several months, I recall a story of an Congressperson’s intern making a similar mistake.

My guess is that an intern or low level employee monitors the account and they just misclicked.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

PS – Toward the idea that the tweet may not be real…

Of course if it was almost instantly deleted deleted, it may not have been seen by a spider, so this proves nothing, but the errant tweet isn’t coming up using Google: Realtime and I’ve been operating under the assumption that tweets are cached.
Liberal Tormentor

Color Me Ignorant says:
Don’t blame them, I would hate having to hear their inane BS all the time too.

Now you know how we feel when you are around.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Update: Jake Tapper of ABC has an official statement acknowledging the tweet. It was an operator error and that person no longer has access to the account.
Barack Must Go

Magister said:
Update: Jake Tapper of ABC has an official statement acknowledging the tweet. It was an operator error and that person no longer has access to the account.

Barack Obama ?
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

Barack Must Go said:
Barack Obama ?

You forgot the “HUSSEIN”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Barack Must Go

Karl Spensen said:
You forgot the “HUSSEIN”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

How much is that doggie in the window, the one with the suckiest shtick ?
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

Barack Must Go said:
How much is that doggie in the window, the one with the suckiest shtick ?

With all of the AWESOME wit on display by all of my fellow Right-Thinking American commenters, it is an HONOR to even be playing in the same SCHTICK LEAGUE as these Masters of their Craft!!!!!!!1111
Yoda002

I feel for you Secret Service!!.. Not too many sane people can take so much garbage on a single day.
kvon

Barack Must Go said:
How much is that doggie in the window, the one with the suckiest shtick ?

How much are you, son?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ruth-Gretzinger/596613915 Ruth Gretzinger

oh yeah, Fox blathering. I’m sure we’d all much rather listen to the calm intelligence of an Ed Schultz instead.
OxyCon

Is it really a good idea for the agency responsible for protecting the President to be tweeting at all? WTH information do they even have to add except the President’s whereabouts?
Barack Must Go

Karl Spensen said:
With all of the AWESOME wit on display by all of my fellow Right-Thinking American commenters, it is an HONOR to even be playing in the same SCHTICK LEAGUE as these Masters of their Craft!!!!!!!1111

Oh, so close….keep up the good work.
tatboy

Somehow I think the tweeter doesn’t mind MSNBC “blathering”. What a hypocrite POS.
avoidswork

Ruth Gretzinger said:
oh yeah, Fox blathering. I’m sure we’d all much rather listen to the calm intelligence of an Ed Schultz instead.

Um…have you ever watched “Fox & Friends”? The inanity is mindboggling. Those three work very hard to be that frakkin’ stupid.

Zandandido said:
I hope it is a prank, for more than one reason. The major reason is that NO active secret service should EVER had a twitter account. Like this “Secret Service agents tweets: helping a foreign leader out to ‘blank’ street and ‘blank’ street in ‘blank city, USA’ at ‘blank’ time on ‘blank day’. Every President/Prime Minister/Foreign leader in the world has enemies. This is a security issue, more than a Fox News/White House issue.

Like Geraldo drawing maps in the sand while embed reporting? FNC’s own Geraldo?

Barack Must Go said:
How much is that doggie in the window, the one with the suckiest shtick ?

Well, at least Karl “knows what show he’s on”. His brand of humor is patently obvious – sarcasm.

I know it’s hard, not having a sense of humor, being Bitter all.the.time. and just not finding enough hours in the day to loathe obama as you do and express it.
Bill Huggins

Secret Service should THANK FOX

They probably had to hire lots of extra workers because of Fox’s anti-Obama screeds.
Bill Huggins

People at the Secret Service HAVE JOBS because of Fox post-Jan 20th 2009.
Mas Liberty5

I’m not real impressed with the USSS, although they do have professionals working there.

http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-secret-service-the-feds-question-a-tacoma-seventh-grader-for-a-facebook-comment-about-president-obama-and-suicide-bombers-20110516,0,5762882.story

Be very wary of powerful government agents.
SmartAlec

Karl Spensen said:
it is an HONOR to even be playing in the same SCHTICK LEAGUE

Speaking of schticks…yours is old. Can’t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.
SmartAlec

Bill Huggins said:
People at the Secret Service HAVE JOBS because of Fox post-Jan 20th 2009.

More blathering. So you’re saying the USSS would have disbanded after The One was elected? After 146 years? How many sets of kneepads do you wear out worshipping?
X-3

They got caught. The SS also harangued a youngster who said that -0bama should be careful after UBL was whacked. Police State? Freedom of Speech usurped? It’s gettin’ there folks, it’s gettin’ there.
White Ninja

Why in the name of all that is good and holy does the secret service need a Twitter account?
mlb

I highly doubt this could be real and if it is. Talk about a paranoid President. Taxpayers get that you need to protect yourself, but really Obama, your own personal clear up crew or personal hit list collectors -… I am sure there is a better use of time then watching Fox. Then again they seem to be the network not kissing your hiney, and providing a different angle to every story. Must be trying to figure out who to pick on for the next election cycle?
Barack Must Go

Karl Spensen said:
With all of the AWESOME wit on display by all of my fellow Right-Thinking American commenters, it is an HONOR to even be playing in the same SCHTICK LEAGUE as these Masters of their Craft!!!!!!!1111

You know where you can schtick it.
Barack Must Go

avoidswork said:
Um…have you ever watched “Fox & Friends”? The inanity is mindboggling. Those three work very hard to be that frakkin’ stupid.

Like Geraldo drawing maps in the sand while embed reporting? FNC’s own Geraldo?

Well, at least Karl “knows what show he’s on”. His brand of humor is patently obvious – sarcasm.

I know it’s hard, not having a sense of humor, being Bitter all.the.time. and just not finding enough hours in the day to loathe obama as you do and express it.

It’s so nice to see the softer, caring….I guess one could even say nurturing side of douche come in you once in a while. Just don’t do it too ofter, you know..with your reputation as a mean girl and all.
NonElite

How does the concept of “secret” elude a “Secret” Service agent? Why on earth would they be charged with monitoring FOX news? Where would you find a threat to the President’s safety at FOX? There might be threats to his popularity, but that’s hardly a Secret Service matter. This sounds like a misappropriation of SS time.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

NonElite said:
How does the concept of “secret” elude a “Secret” Service agent? Why on earth would they be charged with monitoring FOX news? Where would you find a threat to the President’s safety at FOX?

The relevant portion of the statement given to ABC News: “Our public affairs employees monitor all the news channels throughout the day for stories that effect the Secret Service.”
Joe C

Obama is paying ss to watch Fox News now?
Rio

SmartAlec said:
The. Blathering

Does anyone actually waste time reading his junk posts after reading one of them? I certainly don’t.
SmartAlec

Rio said:
Does anyone actually waste time reading his junk posts after reading one of them? I certainly don’t.

Yes, you are right. I should put more thought into my comments and put forth a well-reasoned argument directed at the issue at hand…kinda’ like you did….not.

But you read it anyway. Nice try…you don’t even insult well.
Rio

SmartAlec said:
SmartAlec says:
May 19, 2011 at 6:51 am

I’m on your side, sorry for not communicating that a bit better.
SmartAlec

Rio said:
I’m on your side, sorry for not communicating that a bit better.

My apologies. I’ve read your comments on other threads and should have picked up on that. Again, my apologies for being a smartass…but then again…I am SmartAlec for a reason.