Monday, January 24, 2011

#WHERESJWBOOTH:   Name an historical event whose contemporaneous Twitter coverage would have been worth following.  For bonus Likes, supply some of the missing coverage:
Survived purple tunnel, but how's Potus surviving without a hat? #whhinaug

Just heard Ruckelshaus resigned too; is there anyone left at DOJ?

Well, now we've got a second piece of videotape Rob Lowe would like to erase. #oscars
Related, from 5770: TweetTheExodus.

(One in an occasional series of possible posts inspired by Patton Oswalt's recent appearance on The B.S. Report.)

25 comments:

  1. Benner9:47 AM

    Excited for FranzF visit! #Blackhand

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  2. Carmichael Harold10:10 AM

    Our American Cousin sucked, Prez was lucky to get out early.  #HeadedToBen'sChiliBowl

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  3. J. Bowman10:15 AM

    RT @pauliesilver: One by land. Everyone meet at Lexington Common. Drinks after in Concord. #redcoatsRcoming

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  4. The Kennedy1960 (which has now become Kennedy1961) Twitter stream is another good example of this.

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  5. Joseph J. Finn10:59 AM

    Speaking of which, anyone else enjoying The Long Recall, covering the various sources day by day of the upcoming US Civil War?

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  6. Marsha11:06 AM

    Babe Ruth is such a poser. Can't take a little ribbing from Cubs fans. Ya think bleacher-pointing is gonna make us respect you? #delusional

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  7. Weird echo on Yankee Stadium PA system; can't hear Lou.  Am not luckiest fan rt now.

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  8. Marsha11:25 AM

    Mookie keeps fouling off pitches. All we need is a hit Mookie - plz plz plz don't hit a little dribbler up the 1st baseline... #wishfulthinking

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  9. Wow that's good.  Hell of an op-ed in the Jacksonville (FL) Republican of 1-24-1861, concluding with:

    "<span>If the negro was made free under the forms of law, he would still be, to all intents and purposes, a slave. His inferiority fixes his social position inexorably. ‘Tis the grip of destiny that holds him fast where he is. It would be cruelty to turn him loose from such fatality, if that were possible. His greatest enemy, save the devil, is the abolitionist. This may be an unwelcome truth to him, and to the nations of the earth; nevertheless it will yet be substantiated to all the world, out of the unfoldings of the eventful future. War, we fear, will come; and then the furies will be turned loose to desolate our land, but the voice in the Apocalypse will speak from behind the cloud of battle, and the trembling people will hear it. The red dragon of abolitionism will skulk away to his hiding place, routed and discomfited, and the master and guardian of Africa (the South_) chastened for its high mission, will resume its control of the black man, and educate him for a destiny far in advance of that it were possible for him to reach, unaided by his heaven appointed master."<span> </span></span>

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  10. Dan Pohlig11:31 AM

    So excited. Just 30 minutes until WS Game 3 between my A's and the Giants starts.  What was that?

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  11. Meghan11:45 AM

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  So glad to be w/ Elin and kids.  #Ilovemyfamily #Tigerscubs

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  12. LDP in Cincinnati11:52 AM

    Wow!  Amazing HR by Fisk!  Get the champagne ready - Red Sox are golden!

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  13. I really hope that ship turns around #CubanMissiles

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  14. Eric J.12:21 PM

    Why are they going to show Oswald's transfer to jail? I'm not even going to watch. #JFKAssasination

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  15. Eric J.12:24 PM

    Going to see new German Zep. land at Lakehurst. Anyone want to join me? #blimpspotting

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  16. Eric J.12:28 PM

    Anyone going to music fest. in upstate NY? Trade some groovy brown blotter for a ride. #Woodstock

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  17. Congressman Ryan is going to Guyana to the bottom of this. #PeoplesTemple

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  18. Woodstock and the hunt for John Wilkes Booth were my two immediate reactions to the question.  More recently: the Andrew Cunnanan chase?  the slow white Bronco?

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  19. The Pathetic Earthling12:48 PM

     I just spotted 130801 2013/EARTHWATCH in my telescope.  Cool.  Except for the end of the civilization party. #ExtinctionLevelEvent

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  20. The Pathetic Earthling12:48 PM

    Who is going to need more than 140 characters anyway?  #Ijustinventedthetweet

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  21. TheRealAC12:53 PM

    rt@BrentwoodPD You know who I am, God Damnit!

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  22. Meghan2:29 PM

    Looks like thunderstorms.  Where's my kite? #science

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  23. <p><span>OMFG Niki just took off shoe, banged table with it.<span>  </span>Completely unironic.<span>  </span>LMAO.<span>  </span>#whatshotattheuntoday</span></p>

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  24. <span>RT @JRO A communist?  A COMMUNIST?  R u effing kidding?  Dont need a PhD in theoretical physics to know whose side I’m on. See if I ever invent another bomb for them...</span> 

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  25. <span>Crowdsrcing campaign slogan on my l8est invention! "Pragmatic Progressivism"? "Liberalism w/Limits"? "I Actually Went to Nam”? "I'm not the 1 who got the BJs"? #gore2000</span>

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