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  Shock! Alabama Viral Video Candidates Didn't Fare Well at the Polls

  JP 11:46 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alabama (6), barack obama, Bradley Byrne (2), candidate (2), Dale Peterson (2), driver license test (2), James (3), Judge Roy Moore (2), Moore (4), nbsp (1,691), Phillip (2), Read (1,473), Tim (3), video (28)

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  Alabama recently saw a groundswell of viral videos. Unfortunately for Alabama residents, the stars of these videos were also politicians campaigning for the state’s June 1st primaries. According to Gawker, three candidates — gubernatorial candidate Judge Roy Moore, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries candidate Dale Peterson and congressional candidate Les Phillip — didn’t fare as well at the voting booth as they did on the Web. Because, while their videos might be funny (for all the wrong reasons), voters were smart enough to realize there wasn’t much behind the platforms.

  Moore, whose video attacked rival candidate Bradley Byrne by questioning his views on the Bible and evolution, garnered only 14-percent of the Republican vote. Peterson, best known for a spaghetti-western influenced spot featuring him on a horse with a rifle rattling off the many “hats” he’s worn, finished third in his primary. Phillip’s harsh words brutally juxtaposed his Navy days with President Barack Obama’s political career and garnered him a solid last place in his race. However, there is hope for one viral video candidate. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim “It makes sense to me” James, famous for a melodramatic video that contended Alabama’s driver license test should only be offered in English, could be set for a runoff in July pending a recount of Tuesday’s votes.

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  Shock! Alabama Viral Video Candidates Didn't Fare Well at the Polls

  JP 1:47 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alabama (6), barack obama, Bradley Byrne (2), candidate (2), Dale Peterson (2), driver license test (2), James (3), Judge Roy Moore (2), Moore (4), nbsp (1,691), Phillip (2), Read (1,473), Tim (3), video (28)

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  Alabama recently saw a groundswell of viral videos. Unfortunately for Alabama residents, the stars of these videos were also politicians campaigning for the state’s June 1st primaries. According to Gawker, three candidates — gubernatorial candidate Judge Roy Moore, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries candidate Dale Peterson and congressional candidate Les Phillip — didn’t fare as well at the voting booth as they did on the Web. Because, while their videos might be funny (for all the wrong reasons), voters were smart enough to realize there wasn’t much behind the platforms.

  Moore, whose video attacked rival candidate Bradley Byrne by questioning his views on the Bible and evolution, garnered only 14-percent of the Republican vote. Peterson, best known for a spaghetti-western influenced spot featuring him on a horse with a rifle rattling off the many “hats” he’s worn, finished third in his primary. Phillip’s harsh words brutally juxtaposed his Navy days with President Barack Obama’s political career and garnered him a solid last place in his race. However, there is hope for one viral video candidate. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim “It makes sense to me” James, famous for a melodramatic video that contended Alabama’s driver license test should only be offered in English, could be set for a runoff in July pending a recount of Tuesday’s votes.

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  Shock! Alabama Viral Video Candidates Didn’t Fare Well at the Polls originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  ATM Hacker Arrested, Thanks to Reformed Con Man

  JP 2:15 am on May 7, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: artist (2), barack obama, Brian Rhett Martin, Con Man, Con ManATM, FBI (4), federal sting operation, hacking exploits, Houston (2), Leo, Martin (2), Morris, nbsp (1,691), North Carolina (6), Read (1,473), Rick James, Thor Alexander Morris

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  Is a reformed con artist really a reformed con artist if he cons another criminal into a federal sting operation? That’s the question Thor Alexander Morris must be asking himself after ending up on the wrong side of an undercover FBI investigation. The 19-year-old grocery store worker from North Carolina recently made the mistake of teaming up with a con artist from Houston to pull off a major ATM hacking project. Unfortunately for Morris, 34-year-old con Brian Rhett Martin had recently gone straight after getting out of jail, and had officially declared an end to his evil-doing days. As he began working with Morris, Martin also began saving all of their chatlog correspondences, and downloaded a bunch of photos of Morris from his Facebook profile. He then handed everything over to the FBI, which later sent an undercover agent disguised as a local hoodlum named “Leo.”

  When Morris flew into Houston to begin hacking into some ATMs, Leo met him at the airport, and drove him to a Walmart to pick up a prepaid debit card, which he activated under the name “Barack Obama.” As Leo drove the hacker to his first targeted ATM, Morris allegedly told the undercover fed all about his ATM-hacking exploits in other states, and recounted stories of other hack jobs involving credit cards. When they finally arrived at the Mercado 6 flea market to break into the cash machine, Morris put on his so-called “Rick James” wig, and coolly set about doing his thing. He ran into trouble early on, though, and before he could figure out how to get himself out of it, FBI agents came out and arrested him.

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  ATM Hacker Arrested, Thanks to Reformed Con Man originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 06 May 2010 06:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Web-Assisted Attack on Tea Party Bound to Backfire

  JP 10:39 am on April 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America (15), barack obama, fringe members, Jason Levin, nbsp (1,691), Party (2), Read (1,473), Tea

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  Congratulations Jason Levin; you have single-handedly let the Tea Party movement off the hook. Levin, who is either a technology consultant or a school teacher (or both), has taken to the Web to organize the ‘Crash the Tea Party’ movement. The goal of his organization is to infiltrate and “out-crazy” the fringe members of the group.

  We, like most, would never take the rather extreme leap to suggest that every member of the Tea Party movement is racist, homophobic or just flat out crazy. However, there is no denying that these elements are part of the grass-roots conservative push. Levin’s goal of quietly infiltrating and exaggerating the least desirable qualities of the Tea Party, however, may have unintended consequences. Now the movement and its leaders have an easy way to dismiss any bad press or misbehavior by its members.

  Levin has used a Web site, as well as Twitter and Facebook, to organize members around the country who plan to “crash” the Tea Party’s Tax Day protests. As he describes it:

  “…whenever a tea partier says ‘Barack Obama was not born in America,’ we’re going be right right there next to them saying, ‘yeah, in fact he wasn’t born on Earth! He’s an alien!”

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  Web-Assisted Attack on Tea Party Bound to Backfire originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Web Electioneering Gets the New Jersey Treatment

  JP 1:57 am on September 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: barack obama, Chris Christie (2), Electioneering (2), Jersey (8), nbsp (1,691), New Jersey (11), NJ (3), Read (1,473), reading web (2), self parody (2), Web (76)

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  Campaigning via social networks worked so well for Democrats last election, especially for Barack Obama, that Republicans are rushing to embrace not only the tools but the tone of the 2008 Electioneering 2.0 fad. Of course, leave it to Jersey to take a perfectly reasonable idea like this and tackify it to the point of self parody.

  As it does most things, and we say this with tough love, New Jersey has hijacked social networking, given it an acid-washed, Aqua Netted, spray tanned makeover, and dubbed it, “It’s My NJ.” A culmination of hand-picked Twitter feeds, political infomercials, and profiles (which are really more like personal ads), the site is funded by the Chris Christie for Governor campaign.

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  Web Electioneering Gets the New Jersey Treatment originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Web Electioneering Gets the New Jersey Treatment

  JP 1:58 am on September 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: barack obama, Chris Christie (2), Electioneering (2), Jersey (8), nbsp (1,691), New Jersey (11), NJ (3), Read (1,473), reading web (2), self parody (2), Web (76)

  Filed under: Web, Social Networking

  Campaigning via social networks worked so well for Democrats last election, especially for Barack Obama, that Republicans are rushing to embrace not only the tools but the tone of the 2008 Electioneering 2.0 fad. Of course, leave it to Jersey to take a perfectly reasonable idea like this and tackify it to the point of self parody.

  As it does most things, and we say this with tough love, New Jersey has hijacked social networking, given it an acid-washed, Aqua Netted, spray tanned makeover, and dubbed it, “It’s My NJ.” A culmination of hand-picked Twitter feeds, political infomercials, and profiles (which are really more like personal ads), the site is funded by the Chris Christie for Governor campaign.

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  Web Electioneering Gets the New Jersey Treatment originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Seltener Besuch in Washington - Deutsche Welle

  JP 1:57 am on August 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: barack obama, Hannover (9), hosni mubarak, Kairo, Mubarak, nbsp (1,691), Obama (3), raquo (39), US (24), Washington (15)

  Hannover Zeitung

  Seltener Besuch in Washington Deutsche Welle Ägyptens Präsident Hosni Mubarak hat US-Präsident Barack Obama in Washington besucht. Vor knapp drei Monaten hatten sich die beiden bei Obamas Besuch in Kairo getroffen. Ägypten gilt westlichen Regierungen als Stabilitätsfaktor im Nahen Osten. … Obama sieht ermutigende Zeichen in NahostFOCUS Online Niemand weiss, wer auf Mubarak folgtBasler Zeitung Ägyptens Staatschef Mubarak in Washington: Obama macht Mut für …RP ONLINE AFP -derbund.ch – Nichts verpassen -SF Tagesschau Alle 106 Artikel »