'Solicitweetion': AP Reporter Tweets For Negative Comments on Mitch Daniels Selection as Purdue President
The Tweet watchers at Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com caught an Associated Press reporter seeking out (perhaps the term should be "solicitweeting," with "solicitweetion" as the related noun) negative comments about Mitch Daniels on Twitter earlier today from Purdue alumni and students about the appointment announced today of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to become that school's next president.
After the jump, readers will see AP reporter Tom LoBianco's birdbrained tweets, followed by what should be considered an embarrassing mistake in the copy of his co-authored story (saved here for future reference, fair use, and discussion purposes):
Here are the Twitchy "solicitweetion" grabs:
Perhaps if LoBianco weren't so obsessed with finding naysayers, he might have noticed this embarrassing sequence in the dispatch he co-authored with reporter Tom Coyne (note the repetition in the first and fourth paragraphs presented at the AP's home site):
Okay, guys, we get it. There's a "perception." You and Margaret Ferguson seem to be the only ones who have it.
The loathsome LoBianco and Coyne burned an awful lot of bandwidth questioning Daniels's supposed lack of academic credentials. Hmm -- the three Democratic Party examples I'll name predate the Twitter era, but I wonder if AP reporters tried as hard to get negative feedback about Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey when he became President of the New School in 2001, former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala when she took over at the University of Miami in Florida that same year, or former Senator David Boren when he got the CEO role at Oklahoma University in 1994?
Does anyone think there was similar skepticism about Boren's, Shalala's, or Kerrey's academic cred? Don't be silly. For Boren and Shalala (I was unable to find a Kerrey-related item quickly), the respective answers are: puff piece and puff piece.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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So, the head of the Poli-Sci department
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 4:20pm.
thinks that the inmates should have a say in who runs the asylum?
An ex-governor becomes a university president? So?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 5:42pm.
He doesn't understand academia? Again, so?
We already have a precedent in a president who was a community organizer who kneecapped his way to state senate, hustled his way to the U.S. Senate, and then charmed his way with racial intrigue and operational translucency to the presidency.
Daniels may have appointed his own electors, but Obama had the entire media, except for Fox, most of talk radio, and a good section of the blogosphere, on his side, panting heavily for a transformative moment, and awaiting his second coming with ... um ... feet to the ceiling.
A university president's #1 job is fundraising--not academic.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 5:58pm.
They sell the university. That's their job. They have provosts, deans, VPs of different appellations and all manner of administrative people to see to running the school.
As a general rule, high powered academics are lousy managers and fundraisers and that's why universities want someone who can bring in the cash.
Question for the AP reporter
Submitted by IndianaCarl on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 6:03pm.
When exactly are you going to question whether or not Barack Hussein Kardashian (yeah, you know who I listen to at lunch) is qualified to be President?
And guess what? This is possibly one of the BEST things that could happen to the campus. Perhaps those people in West Lafayette will figure out that their liberal ways aren't the best, and they can quit looking down their noses from up on the hill at the rest of us. (Three guesses where I actually live, here in Indiana - first two don't count.)
Seriously - a lot of the professors at Purdue don't have a clue about the real world, nor do they have values that match the rest of Indiana. Maybe this'll tick 'em off enough that they'll leave, and we can reclaim one university.
Letter to the Editor in the local paper today started out like this: "Would you make Nero Rome’s fire chief? Would you reward Bashar al-Assad with the Nobel Peace Prize? Those would be outrageous decisions."
God Bless the U.S.A. and the troops that defend her and her Constitution.