| Signs that the GOP just doesn't get Teh Internets (via MIRS). Senate Majority Leader Mike BISHOP(R-Rochester) has learned that you can't believe everything you see on Facebook.
A group, "Draft State Senator Mike Bishop for Congress in 2010," popped up this week on the social networking site, but Chief of Staff MattMINER said it's not affiliated with Bishop's office. His boss is still focused on running for Attorney General in '10. Miner said aides have discussed the idea of challenging freshman U.S. Rep. Gary PETERS (D-Bloomfield Twp.) in the 9th District, but Bishop's wife, Cristina, isn't a big fan.
"Mike's not running for Congress," Miner said today. "He doesn't have any personal desire to go to D.C."
Miner said he's contacted Facebook to try to get the page removed, since it uses an unauthorized image of Bishop, but so far, no one from the California-based company has gotten back to him. He said Facebook is new technology to many and said some people are "trying to relive their days of juvenile high school tactics."
Italics mine. It goes on, with great hilarity, to where relevant Republicans suggest that the entire thing is a put on by unknown persons. I'd like to know just who they think would waste their time inventing such a thing for jest, and what gain they thought they could get out of it. Update! ... More hilarity from the same story. Meanwhile, the real Shinkle isn't even on Facebook and he tells MIRS he's also trying to get his fake page yanked. He says he and the MRP have nothing to do with the site and he has calls in to Bishop, Schuette and Welday. Unfortunately, it appears that the Mike Bishop for Congress page has been pulled down. So, the story turned out to be about a mostly complimentary dirty trick -- these ain't Dick Nixon's Republicans anymore. And you've got to wonder about the state of the campaign if it fears being undone by a fake Facebook group. Anyway, it's illuminating to know what he regards himself as a Sun King whose image is not to be profaned by use not approved by the emperor itself. We kind of had that idea already, so it's the question remains is whether the entertainment value to this is the reason why it was a story in the first place. |
