Meghan McCain: Rove’s ‘creeping me out on Twitter’

[merh]

Meghan McCain: Rove’s ‘creeping me out on Twitter’
By Muriel Kane

Published: April 20, 2009
Updated 1 hour ago

The daughter of Sen. John McCain is being followed on Twitter by Karl Rove — and she’s finding the experience “creepy.” Not only that, but the Tweets she gets back from Rove in return strike her as “boring.”

“Karl Rove follows me on Twitter,” Meghan McCain writes at The Daily Beast. “That’s creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. … 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. We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people.”

McCain suspects that Rove’s own tweets may be the product of an assistant, or “ghost Twitterer,” since they reveal so little about him — unlike her own father’s far more personal twittering.

more @ http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/20/meghan-mccain-roves-creeping-me-out-on-twitter/

[Arkana]

1. Hahahahahahaha.

Karl's probably trying to work up the nerve to tell her he thinks she's PUUUUUUURRRRTY.

[pnwmom]

2. Twitter creeps me out. Why would anyone want to broadcast their goings on

to masses of people every day?

[merh]

6. I don't get it either.

[NYCGirl]

14. Like you're doing right now? NT

[yodermon]

23. not at all. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

21. And why would anyone want to follow someone's every move all day long?

The whole concept seems like the biggest waste of time and energy.

[lies and propaganda]

24. I post about my art & its process, politics, wine, cooking

pictures of my furballs, get up to the second info such as the last Cali earthquake was tweeted about twenty minutes before teh Times, Chronicle or Google reported on it.

Its not just "I pooped." "Just had dinner."

[jazzjunkysue]

28. What? You don't find my hemmoroids fascinating? My mother-in-law?

You don't want to know how my heel spur treatments are going? What I'm doing next year for the super bowl? Why my boyfriend dumped me?

You're not waiting, with baited breath, for me to declare my new favorite TV show?

Next thing you'll tell me is you don't want to see my scrapbooks of my trips to the amish country.

[crikkett]

38. You don't have to broadcast personal goings-on.

You can broadcast things like upcoming events, haikus, participate in word games, follow headlines. People complain about airlines (I read some eye-opening stories!) and you can brag about your computer and you can rave about the best sandwich in the world.

You can also block 'creeps', so I wonder if Meghan is just being a whiner or if she's even bothered to explore the service.

The best use I know of for twitter is real-time organization. Like participating in a flash-mob, responding to a fire, or avoiding riot police at an RNC protest.

[wilt the stilt]

3. Karl Rove-stalker

tell me if he doesn't remind you of a stalker or a pedophile

[AnneD]

11. Given the conviction rate of those with GOP affilliations.......

it is a reasonable fear.

[WI_DEM]

4. it doesn't surprise me that Rove is a stalker.

[Solly Mack]

5. Ew. She's being "twalked" by Rove

Needs a t-shirt

I was twalked by Rove and now have a painful rash.

[bleever]

18. A quick Google search suggests that

you are the first to coin the term "twalk"!

[Solly Mack]

19. Twelicious!

or would that be twilicious?

[blogslut]

7. Ha!

Block him, Meghan! Make sure to Tweet about it when you do!

[get the red out]

8. It's what happens when you leave the prescribed script

Megan McCain is now tagged "enemy" by the right for speaking her mind. Oh, but these are the guys that say Rush and Hannity are exercising "free speech" by ignighting the right to violence.

[YOY]

9. Ah Karl...you did it yourself. Why do you keep persisting in this charade?

we all know you fucked up. You advised an imbecile into his political grave by taking the far right route..now you fight against the inevitable backlash from those in your party who would dare point out that the emporor was naked all along and you still think he is clothed.

Just a pathetic attempt to clean up his own legacy.

[sufrommich]

10. I think Rove ,mastermind of the right wing revolution,

is pathetically trying to figure out what these youngsters want.

[YOY]

16. Jobs. Pretty easy answer.

And trickle down/NAFTA hasn't been providing those jobs.

[Javaman]

12. more useless blather.

who gives a damn?

:rant:

we live in a totally self absorbed society. I find that the few that twitter now are on the far end of the bell curve of self indulgence.
what is so freaking important in their lives that I must know every single moment of their happenings? "I'm drinking a latte'", "I don't care for what so and so said", "is it important to really care about the children?"

good. fucking. god.

What has happen to us? do we now have so much free time that we don't know what to do with that we have to fill it up with inane insights?

or more likely,

Do we have this overwhelmed feeling (not overwhelming) to be on top of the latest bullshit in fear that we might miss something? Miss what, exactly? Miss some half-witted boobs attempt at being witty or insightful?

or do we fear time to contemplate our lives? To reflect on just how fucked up it is that we have become obsessed with filling each and every waking moment with something to fill the void of silence?

We have become a society void of day dreamers. Time once occupied by gazing out the window and imagining the unimaginable is now replace with head down, eyes glued to screen and thumbs gone wild. And when that is not happening, the obsessive checking and rechecking for a response.

oh fuck it. here we are and here is were we are going to stay. Short attention span 140 character theater.

Here's a thought: if we as a society have a massive blackout, the cell phone towers only have enough juice in their battery back ups for, at most, 3 days. If the black outs stretch beyond 3 days, that's when the withdrawals start and the riots begin.

I weep for our future on so many levels.

:rant:

[wicket]

20. Wish I could recommend your comment.

Amen!

[lostnfound]

22. Aren't we precluded from daydreaming for 12 formative years of our lives?

Could that have something to do with it?

[LuckyLib]

25. So true. I often wonder if young folks have any moments of silence, contemplation, enjoyment of the

immediate environment in which they are passing. They all live in each other's back pockets these days . . .

[NYCGirl]

13. Someone should tell Meghan she can block him. I would. NT

[bemildred]

15. Oooog. I do not want to know about this. nt

[Seen the light]

17. You can easily block people on Twitter nt

[Starry Messenger]

26. Well, he is Karl Rove.

Far easier to follow her on Twitter than root through her garbage.

[gamecock]

39. the question is

Why does Karl Rove have Twitter?

[crikkett]

40. Twitter's doing this massive PR push to get people to adopt the service so they can

roll out their business plan to monetize it sometime next year. So my guess is that he's being encouraged to have one and might even be paid by the tweet.

[The Wizard]

27. She should post false information

to make Ku Klux Karl go a little more nuts.

[jazzjunkysue]

29. Meghan's statements held alot of water, and the MSNBC GOP pundit agreed with her.

I guess Daddy should have taken some advice from his little girl. She makes way more sense than he does.

[merh]

30. so, do you think she will end up running for office one day

maybe daddy's seat when he retires with an eye on the whitehouse?

[jazzjunkysue]

31. Nah. She'll never fit into Sarah's hand me down used power suits.

[merh]

33. she doesn't need them

the Coors fortune allows her to dress and be her own person.

I think she will hold office one day and be a force in the GOP, if she sticks with that dying party.

[crikkett]

41. Coors? Why did I think it was Budweiser?

IIRC (and apparently I don't) i read something about her getting 4% of the distributorship or something.

Another reason to legalize pot: it will cut into money spent on alcohol.

[merh]

42. are you kidding, a glass of wine and a joint, a beer and a spiff

they go hand in hand. Like coffee and a cig, they compliment each other quite nicely. ;)

[crikkett]

43. not so much, not for everyone

although my grandmother had to give up coffee after her heart attack because her doctors also made her give up the cigarettes, and coffee was the only time she craved one.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

32. He never needed Twitter to be creepy.

It's what defines him.

:hi: :)

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

34. I'm liking Meghan more and more...

[ecstatic]

35. Meghan, leave the darkside already!

It's OK!

[varelse]

36. Comedy gold here:

“My local Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who, as the author of America’s Toughest Sheriff, is notorious in his own right, recently sent me a Tweet about an answer I gave a fellow Twitter follower. He tried to tell me to go easy on them. It’s really scary when the guy who houses his inmates in tents in the summer and whose most visible public relations success involves pink underwear, boxers, and handcuffs tells you to tone it down."

:rofl:

[Pithy]

37. Bwaa - haa - haa!

Karl Rove = creeper!