Heritage Foundation Breaks Major Abuse of Power Story

[kpete]

Heritage Foundation Breaks Major Abuse of Power Story

Perhaps eager to illustrate what I was saying the other day about journalism and the right, here comes the Heritage Foundation breaking a fantastically dumb major abuse of power story regarding Robert Gibbs’ Twitter account. It seems, you see, that he Tweeted a recommendation of Revolution Cycles as a bike repair shop, offering “special thanks to Ken and others there for helping me with my bike.”

As Heritage explains, this is far worse than torture and secret prisons:

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/07/white-house-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-twitter-an-abuse-of-power/

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs & Twitter: An Abuse of Power?
Government officials using their position to endorse businesses and products creates very obvious conflicts of interest. Will every business Robert Gibbs walk into now offer him special treatment in the hopes he gives them a shout-out or endorsement? Will Revolution Cycles offer him special treatment for today’s tweet? Did he already recieve special treatment from Revolution Cycles, considering his tweet specifically calls out “Ken” who helped him with his bike?

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/05/heritage-foundation-breaks-major-abuse-of-power-story.php

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Good grief

Wingnut logic at work.

[Cassandra]

2. Don't you know...

bike repair places are going to take over the world!! Just the name of the place suggests communism and mad cyclists ruining our way of life (TM).

[Flying Dream Blues]

24. It's a front for them ACORN commies, dontcha know. :) nt

[dems_rightnow]

3. Ill-advised, sure

But "major abuse of power" is a HUGE stretch.

[Lasher]

6. We call them lies where I come from.

They're just mad because the White House doesn't let them screen resumes anymore.

[mucifer]

4. wow they really can't find anything?

[BeFree]

9. That's all they got, except...

....except for the story about how they are eating their own shit these days.

[lunatica]

5. Bike repair is so Small Business

Now if Gibbs were to do a shout out for the Heritage Foundation that would be OK.

:sarcasm:

[WeDidIt]

7. But Cheney waiving safety regulations for Halliburton was okey dokey.

:eyes:

[troubledamerican]

21. No-bid (!-NO BID !!) contracts for Halliburton was okay!

People fail to appreciate how unprecedented this was. And is.

[mucifer]

8. Impeach Obama NOW!

[Demeter]

10. My god They Are More Than Insane

Why aren't these people locked up for our protection?

[Turbineguy]

11. It's the end of the world.

As they know it.

(and I feel fine)

[madmax]

12. Sounds like 'The Onion'

Unfortunately, it's not. These fuckers are batshit crazy and anyone who contibutes 1 cent to these idiot foundations is stooopid. Yeah, I know, stating the obvious.

[asjr]

13. OMG! I hope to goodness he did not

thank his last taxi-cab driver for letting him off at the right place!!

[ThomWV]

14. God help us if he tells his neighbor which plumber he called the last time the line clogged

[tanyev]

15. The same Heritage Foundation who helped staff the disastrous Coalition Provisional Authority?

They need to STFU.

[rucky]

16. Haha. The more I think about this...

the Think Tanks do not understand Twitter. This could be a chink in their armor.

[Toucano]

17. This is just the tip of the iceberg!

It starts by currying favor from Revolution Cycles, Ken and Twitter.

It's a slippery slope!

If not stopped, these tyrants will be getting special treatment at from Rob at Burger King and digg.com!

All on your dime, American taxpayer!

[Ikonoklast]

18. The operation's cover is blown wide open.

Thanks, Gibbs, you big jerk, now EVERYONE knows about the coming Revolution.

[Greyhound]

19. K&R.

:rofl:

[Yuugal]

20. Is he going to give Checkers back?

[Motown_Johnny]

22. so what did ever happen to all those Bush/Cheney e-mails anyways?

[DRoseDARs]

23. Wait, isn't bike riding Communist? Shouldn't they be crowing about this PROOF of Communist takeover?

Orsomeshit? :shrug:

[foxfeet]

25. Call me back when there's a massive bicycle spill somewhere.