Twitter war in Nevada?
posted at 8:50 pm on August 26, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
I’m not sure which I find more amusing in this clip. Is it the fact that a local TV station spent more than three minutes reporting on sniping on Twitter after complaining that they would have to sit through 70 days of campaign commercials? Or is it the obligatory fingers-typing-on-keyboard shot that has been a hallmark of blog coverage on television since the inception of the blogosphere? Heck, why choose? KLAS breaks the scoop on “political Twitter” and the infighting between the Harry Reid and Sharron Angle campaigns (via Elizabeth Crum):
It does take a special kind of chutzpah to gripe about Angle’s hiring advisers out of DC on Twitter with a handle that references one’s own status as a Beltway denizen. That’s worthy of a good poke in the figurative Twitter eye. As for the rest of it, maybe the staffs of both campaigns need a little more supervised work, and maybe KLAS should hope for more campaign commercials, not fewer.
To that end, this new ad from Team Angle looks like the communication shop has been working overtime. They call it “the most tragic love story of our time,” but the real tragedy of this love triangle hits everyone but the three people involved. You have to love the saxophone riffs.
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artist on August 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Oh, are we paying!
bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 8:57 PM
What is this ‘Twitter’ that you speak of…?
Seven Percent Solution on August 26, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Since Dingy Harry is involved, wouldn’t it simply be a ‘Twit War’.
trigon on August 26, 2010 at 8:59 PM
War , brought to you live, 140 characters at time.
bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Do a post on the Grayson ad with schoolkids!!! It is outrageous!
Joe Caps on August 26, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Oh, that ad is gold. Dem love is tawdry “love”. (And here I thought that saxaphone players were AGW civil disobeyers, as the Glass headline story claims.)
onlineanalyst on August 26, 2010 at 9:04 PM
More like a war between two twits….
lexhamfox on August 26, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Can’t believe Reid still has a chance.
abobo on August 26, 2010 at 9:07 PM
I’m waiting for the compilation of all his remarks such as “the war is lost”, “unemployed husbands beat their wives”, “no negro dialect”… etc.
CCRWM on August 26, 2010 at 9:07 PM
The only thing that second video “Love Triangle” was missing…
… was the theme song.
Seven Percent Solution on August 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM
I think it that since he could not knock her out after 5 weeks of unopposed negative ads about her, he is in big trouble. The only that actually worries me about NV is the none of the above handle, who does that!
bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Can’t believe Reid still has a chance.
abobo on August 26, 2010 at 9:07 PM
I think
itthat since he could not knock her out after 5 weeks of unopposed negative ads about her, he is in big trouble. The only thing that actually worries me about NV is the none of the above handle, who does that!bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM
I really need to use review
bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Meh…they’re playing the standard ‘politics is so unexpectedly ugly and contentious’ crap the lefty media always plays when their people are losing.
AUINSC on August 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Twits and Tw*ts Twittering and Tweeting
to the tune of Warring Tweets!!
canopfor on August 26, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Battle of the Twits!!
canopfor on August 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM
When I think of Twitter war
i think of boys wearing neon, running around like silly gooses, having a slap fight
blatantblue on August 26, 2010 at 9:20 PM
by boys i mean grown men that are particularly effeminate.
blatantblue on August 26, 2010 at 9:20 PM
C’mon Harry, you said the war was lost.
SHARPTOOTH on August 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM
here is said Grayson ad.
Joe Caps on August 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Twitter Muck Raking!!
canopfor on August 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM
here is said Grayson ad.
Joe Caps on August 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Joe Caps: It got a bit creepy towards the end,
mmm mmm mmm!!
canopfor on August 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I love that Sharron Angle ad.
SouthernGent on August 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Something like this? Skip ahead to 1:43 or so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXaYj33F0A
bluemarlin on August 26, 2010 at 9:27 PM
What they need is Twitterers with degrees in humor, preferably MS’s and PhD’s. I see a whole new market opening up, and you, AP, making millions by getting in on the ground floor as a consultant and employment agency.
KLAS is whining because the campaigns have cut out the middleman — the media.
Dusty on August 26, 2010 at 9:33 PM
That’s a great ad!
tinkerthinker on August 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM
YES!
blatantblue on August 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM
a tale of two twitties
WashingtonsWake on August 26, 2010 at 10:17 PM
“These were the best of crimes, these were the worst of crimes…”
WashingtonsWake on August 26, 2010 at 10:18 PM
The frakking kids are morons. Grayson didn’t save their schools: we did.
BuckeyeSam on August 26, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Torn between two lovers
Feeling like a fool
Loving both of you
Is breaking all the rules!
What is Nancy to do? Barrack and Harry are both such nice men.
Mojave Mark on August 26, 2010 at 11:32 PM
KLAS failed to disclose that Jon Summers, Reid’s communications director who is prominently featured in their report, used to work for them as a reporter.
Not sure what the general journalistic standard is for disclosing that type of thing, but it’s something to keep in mind.
Ry Ry on August 26, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Fun definition: twit (n), someone who inadvertently ridicules himself on Twitter
ex: Reid’s dir. of comm., Jon Summers, who as JonsummersDC(sic), attempts to ridicule Sharron’s “DC handlers”
http://twitter.com/jonsummersdc
Maybe they don’t teach logic (or reading comprehension) at Central Floriduh. Certainly not irony!!
fred5678 on August 27, 2010 at 4:03 AM
Twittering is for the birds…or the bird-brained, in this case.
Dark-Star on August 27, 2010 at 9:15 AM
It doesn’t take more than 140 words to say, “If elected I will vote to cut spending and taxes, and reduce the size of government.” You could even add that Reid is fear mongering.
flataffect on August 27, 2010 at 6:37 PM
The NRA has taken a lot of hits in the past two months from the Right because many speculated that they were going to endorse Harry Reid. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES TODAY? The NRA has announced that they will NOT endorse Reid. Come on bloggers, time to be fair and spread the truth.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on August 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM