A risk you run with in the digital age is that if you do something stupid, it will almost certainly be recorded in a quasi-permanent way, in contrast to the ephemeral nature of a spoken conversation. You don’t even have the “I was misquoted” excuse when you’ve removed the human being from the equation.<\/p>\n
Great example: Pete Hoekstra (R, Min) tweeting about the horrible mistreatment he and his colleagues have suffered.<\/p>\n
Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not surprisingly, that set off the internet’s sarcasmotron. Lots of tweets<\/a>, and a blog post devoted to it<\/a>. If you don’t want to sift sort too much, here are some highlights<\/a><\/p>\n
benhuh: @petehoekstra I had to sit in the last row of our corporate jet this morning. This is what Rosa Parks must have felt.<\/p>\n
curtsmith: @petehoekstra, fell off my surfboard in Malibu today, now I know what D-day felt like.<\/p>\n
donnahon: @petehoekstra Got some sand in my shoe. Now I know what it’s like to be on my third deployment in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A risk you run with in the digital age is that if you do something stupid, it will almost certainly be recorded in a quasi-permanent way, in contrast to the ephemeral nature of a spoken conversation. You don’t even have … Continue reading