The kids these days like curses words and typing in all caps. 

He’s fuckin’ right.

I know I am naive and as an educator no one sees the reason for frustration better than I do.  But how does the profanity-laced hashtag further anyone’s cause? It is certainly not the way I want to encourage students to get someone to pay attention. 

He’s a journalism professor, what a shocker.   CUNY must be proud to have this guy represent the credibility and professionalism of its university…. 

Who is this clown…and why should we give a damn about this stupidity?

What’s his point?

Is he just another O-bot who is traumatized over the fact that their president is a lazy, stupid, dishonest, incompetent, irrelevant, petulant little child of a loser?

I have been tweeting #FuckYouWashington hashtags all day yesterday, will continue today. My personal favorite was this one I wrote yesterday.

I love the #fuckyouwashington hashtag I want the MSM to know that includes you too, you are all complicit douchebags #fuckyouwashington

I’m almost of the opinion that if the Tea Party and Grover Norquist want to hold America hostage, perhaps Obama should call out the Army and hold the Republicans in Congress until they pass the debt ceiling. This is nothing more than the GOP following Rush’s words of ” I hope he fails”…but if Obama fails America fails. Wish the GOP/Tea Party would learn one thing…They are Americans first, GOP/Tea Party second.

Let’s call upon the Tea Party to stop using things that have been supported by taxes. They must stop using bridges, they must stop driving on paved roads, they must stop eating meat that has passed FDA inspection. They also must stop taking medicine that has been approved by the FDA. If their house catches on fire, they must use their own water hose. No fire department. Can’t call the police if someone breaks into your house either. Can’t take a vacation via airplane either, can’t use elevators or escalators if they go someplace. Can’t drive a car that has passed safety inspections either. They’ll also need to stop using electric and gas A/C this hot summer. The grid and pipelines were subsidized by the government.
The list could go on but you can see how idiotic stopping taxes really is.

May I suggest a name for your ideal action?  How about the “Enabling Act?” of 2011 of course not to be mixed with the 1933 version

WARNING:  THIS POST WILL BE INSULTING TO THE MAJORITY OF PERSONS IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD!  (re “voice of the country” in the article)
Parable:A lowly private is given the responsibility of leading a battalion into a fierce and deadly battle and will be held personally liable for their victory or defeat in the battle.  When he dares to ask what authority to give orders he will have for the battle, he is told he will have none: the other soldiers in the battalion will not be required to do anything he tells them to do.
For any of you who understand why such a situation is stupid to the level of insanity, congratulate yourselves.  You are much smarter than the majority of persons in this country and the world, who seem to believe that government should take care of all of their needs and desires, BUT NOT INTERFERE IN THEIR LIVES IN ANY WAY THAT THEY DON’T LIKE.
It is a natural law of human group interactions that RESPONSIBILITY for participants and AUTHORITY over participants by any leaders in the interactions must be reasonably well balanced, or nothing works, and disaster results.
Moral:  Don’t try to blame it all on the politicians: remember who elected them, and who would not have voted for them if they didn’t entertain you with all the fun political rallies and the pretty lies of “BENEFITS”, “HOPE”, “CHANGE”, “TRANSPARENCY”, etc.  Did you have no reason to suspect them of lying?  Have politicians not lied since the dawn of time, and especially in modern democracies, where they must get elected?  But now you want to act offended and innocent because “They lied to us!”  Yeah, right!  Next tell me again about the tooth fairy.

For the record and as an FYI, I mentioned the fellow quoted saying Twitter seemed to be moderating search results in the Storify version of this story in a tweet of my own early yesterday. I wondered whether it was a difference between “top” and “all — my reason was because at the time of my tweet, “top” only produced one result, while there were a lot more under “all”.

He later responded (via Twitter) that at the time he made the observation, both “all” and “top” were showing only few results per hour, but as of the time of our communication (several hours later), “top” still seemed to be throttled, while “all” appeared to be more inclusive.

Of course, I replied with a rhetorical that we really don’t know much about the algorithm Twitter uses to define “top” and I’ll add in this space that the number of followers or retweets could possibly be a factor, but if they were weighed heavily, then Jeff Jarvis’ should have been there.
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PS) I’m also going to add that in addition to Jarvis’ post and the Storify which he suggested, the Storyful archive that he also linked is good for a snapshot of the beginnings.

Jeff Jarvis is one of the most respected and quoted experts on the subject of media in general and new media in particular.

I don’t always agree with his conclusions or prescriptions and have said as much in comments to his and other blogs, plus in a few posts of my own, but he has written and spoken extensively about new media over the years and is considered a guru.

Shouldn’t the MSM be against his fiery rhetoric. Isn’t this coarsening the dialogue? 

Why do you think it’s Obama and not all Washington? All you know is calling names and not thinking for yourself

Dont people realize that the entire strategy of the conservatives is to harm the economy and ride the resulting chaos into power? Dont they realize this has been their goal all along? and that obstructionism and lies are all part of it?

I dont agree with calling out the army but its obvious they want Obama to fail..its a party of racists, war mongers and flat earth believers who with it were 1850 all over again! 

Nice talk cindy…you show what kind of hateful loser you are..

Dont people realize that the entire strategy of the liberals is to harm the economy and ride the resulting chaos into power? Dont they realize this has been their goal all along? and that obstructionism and lies are all part of it?     

Dont people realize that the entire strategy of the liberals is to harm the economy and ride the resulting chaos into power? Dont they realize this has been their goal all along? and that obstructionism and lies are all part of it?     

Lets face facts. Obama wants everyone in Washington to like him. I laugh at
him for wanting that. I guess he did not hear Jimmy Carter when Jimmy said “the
some of the people in his party and most of the people outside of his party is
not going to like him because he is part black.” However, I feel most of America
couldn’t care less what his completion maybe they just want him to fight for our
rights. And as a tax payer who pay more taxes then most of the people who own
corporation like big oil and banks. I’m sick of their shit! And if they are so
afraid of the “tea party aka a new form of the KKK” I think it’s time for my
people, and what I mean by ‘my people’ is Americans, to stand up and look at the
facts.

Recently a newspaper in Poland wrote that the greatest danger to America is not Obama, but the fact that there are enough American voters who are stupid enough to have elected him.

Pretty interesting, coming from folks who have already “been there and done that”, not to mention having worn the T shirt threadbare…

Those who will not learn from history are condemned to repeat it…