President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to Copenhagen to support the bid of their home town Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Their efforts mirrored those of the President Brazil to support the winning bid of Rio de Janeiro. In the end, Chicago’s proposal failed to gain the support...
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Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Associated Press, Chicago 2016, CNN, Copenhagen, International Olympic Committee, IOC, Jon Stewart, Liberal media bias, Media Bias, Michelle Obama, MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, President Barack Obama, Right Wing Media, Rio de Janeiro, The Daily Show, Twitter
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After spending a couple of hours pouring through my emails, I found this nugget from Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church. Readers here know I usually attend the Irvine service, and I keep waiting for Pastor Rick to say something truly outrageous in his sermons — and that hasn’t happened yet; Pastor Warren usually...
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Tags: Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Tweeting for Jesus, Twitter
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One of our readers dropped me a note last night:
Thought I’d bring this to your attention…
As you know, Beth Krom lost her 22-year-old son after he fell off a cliff June 6. For a considerable portion of the fundraising period, she’s been mourning this loss, spending as much time/energy as she could muster on...
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Tags: 2nd Qtr Fundraising, Beth Krom, CD-48, Election 2010, John Campbell, Matt Cunningham, Red County, Republican mistakes, Twitter
Posted in National-US, Orange County - Local | 5 Comments »
Crickets.
Nothing on the Flash Report. But click here for a stroll down memory lane on Jon’s man-crush on Sheriff Mike. And for a laugh, click here and be sure to read the URL of the website and the content of the page.
A story from yesterday directing readers to the Register’s Twitter coverage of the...
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Tags: Carona, Debbie Gavello, Diane Harkey, Ed Royce, John Moorlach, Jon Fleischman, Matt Cunningham, Mike Carona, OC Register, Red County, Twitter
Posted in California, Orange County - Local | 18 Comments »
Gavin Newsom’s campaign proves value of social networking after Twitter announcement of his gubernatorial run results in more than $28,000 in Act Blue donations in one day. Newsom’s campaign launch also resulted in a spike of 18,000 new supporters on his facebook page.
Today the Twitter campaign continued with an Earth Day greeting, link to...
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Tags: 10th Congressional District, California Governor, Ellen Tauscher, Facebook, Gavin Newsom, Gubernatorial campaign, John Garamendi, Twitter
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Several of us from the Liberal OC will be at the Obama Town Hall this afternoon; In between taking photos with my huge zoom lens, I will be Twittering from the event. My Twitter ID is TecFlack, so follow my posts later today. I’m sure Chris will Twitter from the LiberalOC account which you...
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Tags: Obama, Twitter
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