Newspaper not thrilled with McCain's Tweet

By GottaLaff

Not ten minutes ago, I was reading Paddy some of John McCain's Tweets from my new Twitter toy, TweetDeck. I was telling her that his Tweets were an annoying series of isolated little pokes at various earmarks. Guess I was on to something. Here's the most recent one:

#8. $380,000 for a recreation and fairground area in Kotzebue, AK

That's what he does. He posts them exactly as you see above. And here is an example of why they irk some people:

A South Carolina newspaper isn’t too happy with what John McCain’s been Twittering.

McCain has been using the microblogging site to post a near-daily list of the “10 Porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill. On Wednesday, the Arizona senator posted “#6. $950,000 for a Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, SC.”

See what I mean?

The Myrtle Beach Sun News editorialized Friday that McCain is using the site “to make congressional earmarks a political wedge issue for the Republicans” by posting such earmarks without context.

The paper wrote that “readers of McCain's Convention Center tweet are now invited to think — without the inconvenience of critical reflection — that the Myrtle Beach Convention Center project has no value.”

The editorial argued instead that the convention center project has the potential to create long-term wealth and jobs in the coastal resort city.

The paper went on to say how ironic it was that the earmark was put into the bill by none other than Gramm-pa McCain's bff... Lindsey Graham.

Looks like Tweeter McCain laid an egg.