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John McCain MySpace Prank makes Seattle 11pm News (VIdeo)

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:53 AM EDT
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Our local NBC News affiliate paid a visit to Newsvine global headquarters today to film a spot for the 11pm news. Here it is... make sure to watch the video.

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Mykola Bilokonsky

Ha, apparently you are henceforth known as "Seattle Man," teacher of lessons.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:14 AM EDT
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Eric Atienza

I wasn't able to get on Newsvine all of yesterday so I was relegated to wading through ten pages of Technorati links about the McCain Myspace Incident to get my Newsvine fix. You were covered in at least 4 languages and the WSJ did a little blurb on this as well.

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  • 6 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:03 AM EDT
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oldfogey

NBC, AP, Newsvine, MySpace and Mike D conspire to raise awareness of McCain campaign. Trashy neocon, right wing, mushroom cloud stuff.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:15 AM EDT
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lauhal

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! :)

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  • 2 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:33 AM EDT
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fullrangeofmotion

Mike - Look what you've started:

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  • 1 vote
Reply#5 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:46 AM EDT
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fullrangeofmotion

Boo! I can't post links.

cliveholloway .net/mccain/

take out the space.

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  • 1 vote
#5.1 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:48 AM EDT
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Eric Atienza

Here you go: Mike - Look what you've started:

Though this is kind of funny, but also undeserved and while what Mike did was warranted and in good fun, this is kind of spiteful, I feel. And riding coattails of a funnier joke. Just my opinion though.

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  • 3 votes
#5.2 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:08 AM EDT
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fullrangeofmotion

agreed 100%.

thanks for linking.

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  • 1 vote
#5.3 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:31 PM EDT
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cliveholloway

Well, I was covering two issues - the fact that staffers are apparently clueless about this old internet and need to be kept on a tighter leash (better they find out now than in 2008), and playing along with the meme at artisresistance.net (that's a longer debate, to cut a long story short, I succeeded well on that one either way)

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    #5.4 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:43 PM EDT
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    Renesis

    Mike's joke was in good taste -- this second hijacking is completely without taste, and unoriginal at that.

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      #5.5 - Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:59 AM EDT
      {"commentId":616805,"authorDomain":"cliveholloway"}
      cliveholloway

      "completely without taste, and unoriginal at that"

      Exactly! Tasteless and unoriginal is the best description I have heard so far of this circus that we call electing a president. Mind if I use that?

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        #5.6 - Sun Apr 1, 2007 3:26 AM EDT
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        {"commentId":612261,"authorDomain":"fogplanter"}
        fogplanter

        Heard it on the Radio this morning in Seattle.

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        • 1 vote
        Reply#6 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:57 AM EDT
        {"commentId":612315,"authorDomain":"zaki"}
        Zaki

        "so I guess we're B.F.F. now"

        bahahahahah, internet classic

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        • 7 votes
        Reply#7 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:26 AM EDT
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        France

        Listening to the serious female voiceover with "...two passionate females..." is the single funniest thing I've experienced all year.

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        • 1 vote
        Reply#8 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:44 PM EDT
        {"commentId":612708,"authorDomain":"brianford"}
        Brian Ford

        Very brave of you.

        Having seen how local news can sensationalize, misrepresent and otherwise butcher simple news stories would have made me think twice about participating.

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        • 2 votes
        Reply#9 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:47 PM EDT
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        Dennis P. McCann

        Mike,

        The day after tomorrow is April Fools day. How are you going to top this?

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        • 1 vote
        Reply#10 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:05 PM EDT
        {"commentId":613096,"authorDomain":"incredulous"}
        The Incredulous One

        If I understand correctly, McCain was using a file from your server without attribution and you changed the file on your server. Tremendous. I love it. What a temptation it must have been to put something truly earth shattering on there, though the "passionate females" was a stroke of genius. But couldn't you just see yourself through to: McCain admits he is gay.

        I'd still be laughing at that one.

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        • 1 vote
        Reply#11 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:12 PM EDT
        {"commentId":613502,"authorDomain":"2timothy42"}
        Sectim42

        This made Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight! I'd like to consider that the apex of all news sources ;-) If I could cite it, I would start my own feed.

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          Reply#12 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:07 PM EDT
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          Sectim42

          I couldn't seed it, because their was no link, but here is a "column" on it

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            #12.1 - Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:18 PM EDT
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            {"commentId":613653,"authorDomain":"protoolrobot"}
            protoolrobot

            Awesome.

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              Reply#13 - Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:43 AM EDT
              {"commentId":613673,"authorDomain":"renesis"}
              Renesis

              Mike, that's awesome how funny Jon Stewart thinks you are. Although he did call you a "hacker" :)

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                Reply#14 - Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:08 AM EDT
                {"commentId":613717,"authorDomain":"dwell"}
                David Wellington

                Love it!

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                  Reply#15 - Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:39 AM EDT
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                  benmode

                  Great job on this one Mike!!!

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                    Reply#16 - Thu May 17, 2007 2:04 AM EDT
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