Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Stench (Hoax and Mistake)

Some questions about the references to "Stench":
1. Isn't this stench gate unprofessional? Has there ever been a campaign where the VP candidate  attacked the Presidential Candidate, so early?
2. Haha! Rachel Maddow you can't claim you had a hand in this one.
3. I see the cute smile of Stef Cutter somewhere in the background.
4. Twitter Search "stench" and read for a while.
5. Ann Coulter, we like your style, your prescience, you look like many Rinos, Switch over to the liberal cause! Signify by switching to MSNBC.
6. Well I am off to try "stench" search on google+.
7. Will Ryan ever get another opportunity to run for major office again?
8. Thanks Alex Wagner, John Heilemann and others for discussing this a bit on Alex' Show at noon.
8. Ezra McDuffee described it as a "nuclear meltdown" to me on the phone. Those are expensive to clean up!
9. These comments above, may be about a satirical piece written in Politico two days ago. Please See
Talking Points Memo explanation. I will continue to clarify. If this is an error it is a big one for me and for a a lot of other people.
10. The hard lesson is I have been a Lemming! Here is the correction. Mia Culpa I was totally wrong! The explanation can be reached by pressing the previous line. I will write on the great black board of the Internet three hundred times, check your source! Maybe there is some way I can retroactively adjust my mistake!
12. Good catch to all those who made comments!


5 comments:

  1. Is there a link to something specific in reference to 'stench'? A youtube video or something? Not really sure what you're referring to specifically.

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  2. There seems to be a gawker article misquoting or misinterpreting something written in the New York Times. Major news agencies may not be picking this up because it may be an complete fabrication of the internet.

    http://gawker.com/5946600/paul-ryans-got-a-cute-nickname-for-his-floundering-running-mate-the-stench?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

    This may be a roller coaster of weirdness, and it may not be over yet. But it sounds a little too good to be true at the moment.

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  3. This does not seem to be the 'nuclear meltdown' it first seemed. Apparently the author of the post has sence add an 'i may have made this up' clause at the bottom of the post.

    "[Author’s note: Jonathan Swift did not really want Irish people to sell their children for food in 1791; George Orwell did not really want the clocks to strike thirteen in 1984; Paul Ryan, I am sure, calls Mitt Romney something more dignified than “Stench” and Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint as a means to euthanize cattle. At least I am pretty sure Microsoft didn’t.]"

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618_Page2.html#ixzz27bZulVXM

    Has no one told Roger Simon that subtle humor, especially about poltics, does NOT work on the internet?

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  4. I added the TPM explanation above and re-posted. Will continue to verify and clear this up. Looks very much like it's incorrect right now.

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  5. 10. The hard lesson is I have been a Lemming! Here is the correction. Mia Culpa I was totally wrong! The explanation can be reached by pressing the previous line. I will write on the great black board of the Internet three hundred times, check your source! Maybe there is some way I can retroactively adjust my mistake!

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