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Oct 09The party of no tech support.
Is there anything funnier than watching Republicans trying to figure out Twitter?
Yes, there sure is: watching Republicans trying to build a website. The new GOP.com was…let’s say undercooked upon its launch.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele pops up in a format typically associated with dancing hamsters and offers to consolidate your bills/get a fake Internet degree/get a new mortgage. He also has a blog called “What Up.” (The blog has been renamed “Change the Game.” I’m 99% sure they didn’t catch the irony). His opening sentence? “The internet has been around for a while, now.”- The “Future Leaders” section of the website was empty. (It’s now been updated, in a Time-style cop-out, to “You.”)
- The Republican Party hosted a kick-off conference call to announce its grand new venture (it’s “become a personal thing” to Steele!), the website was down. The first question during the conference call was a Hispanic woman who asked why there was no Spanish-language version of the site.
- The site’s admin information was posted for the public to see.
- Gawker noted that Jackie Robinson was posted as one of the GOP’s “Heroes.” You know, the guy who left the party and said this about the 1964 Republican Convention:”A new breed of Republicans had taken over the GOP. As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”
Let’s put it succinctly:
Tagged: humor, news, politics, web, wtf o'clock
October 14th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
What Up, Martin’s blog.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
i secretly <3 michael steele.