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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:24 PM Mar 2014

Outside Beltway Media, Obama’s “Between Two Ferns” Appearance is a Giant Hit

While the beltway media is Truly Upset (TM) that the President of the United States went to Funny or Die to promote Healthcare.gov, in real America, the appearance seems to have worked tremendously well. Bill O’Reilly is super upset, other traditional media is crapping their pants, and the White House Press Corpse (no, I know, but is the ‘e’ really unnecessary?) bellyached about it to Press Secretary Jay Carney yesterday.

In the mean time, the president’s appearance has already had over 12 million views, sent nearly a million people to Healthcare.gov, and made traffic to Healthcare.gov jump by 40% in a single day. And to the dismay of the entire beltway media and conservative pundits, this time they did not have a story about how the flood of traffic broke website – because it didn’t! And the people who actually watch the video are overwhelmingly impressed…

More here: http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2014/3/12/outside-beltway-media-between-two-ferns-is-a-giant-hit

Found on the Obama Diary

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Outside Beltway Media, Obama’s “Between Two Ferns” Appearance is a Giant Hit (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP
That blog is still going? functioning_cog Mar 2014 #1
DU rec for The Peoples View... SidDithers Mar 2014 #2

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
2. DU rec for The Peoples View...
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:44 PM
Mar 2014

'Cause I know how apeshit it makes some folk around here.

And for 14.3 million views at FoD.

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