Smartphones do things that once seemed inconceivable: They hold your music collection; they track subway trains; they correct your spelling, sometimes in embarrassing ways. But one thing they can’t easily do while jostling about in your pocket — despite what former Senator Scott Brown seemed to suggest in a recent interview — is tweet by themselves.
One Friday night last month, Brown responded to a series of antagonistic Twitter posts with several of his own: “whatever bud,” “whatever michael,” and, famously, “Bqhatevwr.” An obvious explanation would have been that Brown had decided on a lark to engage with his critics. But in an interview with Fox 25 over the weekend, Brown claimed instead that, after getting tips from his daughter on how to use Facebook and Twitter and then replying to a few people, he put his iPhone in his pocket. The next morning, he said, his comments were trending worldwide. He asked, “Anyone ever hear of a ‘pocket tweet,’ ‘pocket dial’?”
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What is the point of this?
I think that the point is that Senator Brown is not being truthful, and that he has a very low estmation of the intelligence of the electorate, most of whom use these phones too.
Ooop! I didn't really write that comment. I was on my smartphone. Still getting used to all these picture things on the screen.
This is a content-less editorial on a slow news day written by a group of people with nothing better to do and who, to a man, dislike Scott Brown. I cannot imagine a such a frivilous piece being directed at, say, Patrick, Frank, or any Kennedy. Pathetic.
He got caught in a lie, everybody knows he lied and he still lied. And it was a trivial thing to lie about, which is really disturbing, especially when you consider he threw his own duaghter under the bus in trying to exlain it.
I can't imagine Patrick, Frank or any Kennedy tweeting "whatever bud" or starting one of their campaign advertisements with a head nod and "Watsss up!" to a guy behind a lunch counter. Brown will fade from the limelight pretty quickly because he is just a good looking guy who got lucky with the special election and is just not bright enough to be a good polititian or a leader. He is in fact an everyman (except with better than average looks).
What is really pathetic is that Scott Brown continues in the same pattern of messing up and then putting out fuzzy denials rather than just saying "I did it," and moving on. Others do it, too, but that doesn't make it any better. It's time this man grew up if he ever hopes to be governor or anything else beside "Mr. Huff."
Brown just Tweeted himself out of consideratin for a run for Governor.
Brown is back where he always belonged - Faux News! His attempt to prove his moderation fell apart during the debates when he answered "Justice Scalia" to the question "Who is your favorite Supreme Court Justice?"
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Wow, I cannot believe the time wasted on this topic. An errant tweet a few weeks ago and the Globe is still on this? Wow, journalisim at it's finest with all the other pressing issues the Globe could be focusing on. Of course, this has nothing to do with a possible Gov run by Brown, which the Globe will gladly cheer for anyone with a D.
Only the gullible eat this stuff up and I can see there's plenty of gullibles around.
Luckily as we find out later in the day, this is all for naugtht. Wonder if the new Globe owners will want more than stories like this to feed the Dem sycophants. We can only hope. Too bad, used to be a good paper.
Democrat bleepup = one day story if that.
Republican bleepup = perennial gift that keeps on giving.
Fair and balanced, you decide.
Let's see..In OTHER news, which the Globe has no intention of reporting..
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_PRE_EXISTING_CONDITIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
2/15/13 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing financial concerns, the Obama administration has begun quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president's health care overhaul, a plan that helps people with medical problems who can't get private insurance.
In an afternoon teleconference with state counterparts, administration officials said Friday the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will stop taking new applications. People already in the plan will not lose coverage.." Better get your Elective surgeries done NOW, before the government cuts you off.
And North Korea does another nuke test, Iran builds nukes. Russian military plane violates US airspace.
Obama response: "The most serious world problem right now is Climate Change! And it will be a top priority for my administration.
Scott Brown on the Oreilly Factor agrees with Bill O'Reilly that MA has a $500 million budget shortfall and is $17 BILLION in debt. Globe would jave us believe that Deval's proposed tax hikes are "Only" to improve transportation and education, when, in fact, the money would be used to go to the enormorous budget shortfall.