I am not sure what is more disturbing about this story? That the Secret Service is monitoring Fox News? Or that the Secret Service even has a Twitter account? What can they possibly have to tweet about? Or even should they? Are not they supposed to be SECRET? Why then tweet on social media? I have to say that this is a strange, puzzling story. So how did this all unfold and what are its implications?
Apparently, a member of the Secret Service′s Public Affairs office was watching Fox News and tweeted the following on Twitter: ″Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can′t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.″ The tweet was deleted a short while later. The Secret Service then issued an apology for the tweet.
″An employment with access to the Secret Service′s Twitter account, who mistakenly believed they were on their personal account, posted an unapproved and inappropriate tweet. We apologize for this mistake, and the user no longer has access to our official account. Policies and practices which would have prevented this were not followed and will be reinforced for all account users.″
So the Secret Service apologizes for the negative Twitter tweet about Fox News. There are still many unanswered questions. For example, what story on Fox News were they monitoring? Was it a particular story or was it a particular host, such as Glenn Beck? What is the criteria for the Secret Service to take the time and monitor any news network or program? These are subjects I am curious about concerning this story. There is just something very odd about all of this. Perhaps the line from the old Capitol Steps song is appropriate…″The Secret Service makes me nervous…″
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May 21st, 2011 at 6:13 am
In this season of daily speculation on presidential runs, I truly don’t see anything sinister in them monitoring the news. Sooner or later they will have candidates to protect. And let’s face it, the potential republican candidates are spending more time on Fox than other networks.
But I couldn’t agree more about them having an account in the first place. WTF???
May 21st, 2011 at 6:20 am
But Fox News is not a “news” outlet. It is the propaganda arm of the Republican party. Fox News routinely deals in distortions and outright lies. Stories and programs on Fox News have been directly tied to acts and attempted acts of violence. A good example is Byron Williams, who was arrested in Oakland and who was on this way intent upon a shootout at the Tides Foundation in San Francisco, an organization repeatedly demonized by Glenn Beck on this program. Another is Francis Piven, a 78 year old, realatively obscure college professor who has been constantly harrased and who has received repeated death treats since Glenn Beck named her one of “the nine most dangerous people in the world,” and an “enemy of the Constitution.” Another example is Richard Poplawski, who killed three Pittsburg police officers. Poplawski is a right wing extremist who stated that he was “afraid that Obama is going to take our guns away.” Links to various Fox News stories and programs about Presidnet Obama and gun rights was found on this computer.
Still, I doubt if the Secret Service is really actively monitoring Fox News.
But if not, they should be.
May 21st, 2011 at 10:31 am
“Apparently, a member of the Secret Service′s Public Affairs office was watching Fox News and tweeted the following on Twitter: ″Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can′t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.″
Thats funny, because I get that feeling more often than not when watching CNN, MSNBC or any program that contains a panel of three or more broads trying to talk over each other.
Its usually CNNs Joy Behar or Nancy Grace or Jane Valesquez that have these fcking chicken coop hen panels all sqwaking back and forth in total disarray to the point you just want blow yours or the TVs brains out.
There actually seems to be a lot less blathering on FOX except maybe for Hannity whom sometimes I’d like to backhand and tell him to get a soul and mind of his own.
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Klo… just to refresh your memory…
you’re a fckin idjut
May 21st, 2011 at 10:47 am
“And let’s face it, the potential republican candidates are spending more time on Fox than other networks.”
Why shouldn’t they? They’renot going to get a fair shake from Billy Ray’s lap dog lame stream media outlets. Gingrich’s run in with David Gregory is a good example.
Sarah Palin’s right. Why play their game. The Republicans should stick to social networking sites, Fox News Channel and the talk radio circuit. It would drive the lapdogs moonbat- sht crazy.
May 21st, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Well, Klo, if what you say is true, that Fox News is just the propaganda arm of the Republicans Party, then the Secret Service has no real business monitoring them as their role should be completely a-political.
May 21st, 2011 at 2:26 pm
FOX has better looking women
May 22nd, 2011 at 12:22 am
it is rather scary that the secret service is monitoring the fox news
they should be monitoring al jazeera
May 22nd, 2011 at 6:38 am
Ghost of Klo,
ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,MSNBC, are the propaganda machines of the left. The conservatives have 1 while the liberals have 5. Please tell me what is fair and balance. Pivan has been on around for along time. She worked with the Clintons and has published things to encourage the poor to riot since the 60’s. She and Cloward have given the radicals a blue print on how to ruin this country. They encourage chaos in some one elses neighborhood but not in theirs. They are not innocent lambs.
Klo, are you a professional useful idiot? Are you in your basement in underwear trying to start arguements on right blogs? Get a life and try to enjoy it. You may make the world a better place for all if you had a skill in something useful.
May 22nd, 2011 at 8:52 am
Sue Marie you have all that scathing judgemental distorted puritanism of the uninformed right that reminds me how lucky I didn’t grow up to be your way. Why it feels positively Christian actually to not wake up each morning being “that”.
May 26th, 2011 at 2:50 am
so funny, HEY LIBS we wouldn’t have gone to Fox or Ailes and Murdoch wouldn’t have created Fox IF WE HADN’T GOTTEN sick to death of the leftwingnut media selling their lying propaganda – calling it news……..
Trashing Fox LIKE BABIES is just what the liberals tried to do in 95 –with DRUDGE, hehee we see how that worked out!!!!
now it is the number one goto in the WORLD for news……..
keep it up lefties, communists pick and choose and censor news they don’t like FOR EVERYONE ELSE, you sound just like them.
It always amazes me that the first thing a commie liberal beats down is when someone watches Fox, their arrogance is so great they don’t even hear it…………DON’T WORRY LIBS, WE HEAR YOU (COMMIES).
That is ‘their lame censorship attempt’.
Face it Democrats LOVE THEIR FOLLOWERS DUMBER THAN ROCKS and you can’t stay dumb watching Fox. I see more liberals on Fox than I EVER SEE CONSERVATIVES ON ABCNBCCBSPBSNPRCNNCNBCMSNBC………
Mr. Transparency’s Secret Service guy’s tweet sounds a little like a ‘brown shirt’ doesn’t it? Read some history…..it will scare you the comparisons.