By GottaLaff
UPDATE: Washington Post too!
My original story is here. The sequel in which I discuss the Secret Service's call back to me here. Pollster response here.
Another chapter:
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances.
"We are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps," said Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman. "We take of these things seriously." [...]
"The third-party application that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning," said Barry Schnitt, Facebook's spokesman for policy.
Because the application was disabled, the responses to the nonscientific polls are not available.
Bingo. Thank you. Maybe some of these nutcases (not the pollster, those who are hostile and violent) will see how seriously their words and actions are taken, and think twice...
... although many of them seem to have difficulty thinking once.
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