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GOP Launches Web Site to Give Real Time Reactions to State of the Union

Do you plan to use social media during tonight's speech?

Feb 12, 2013 by Lisa Fine

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Image: www.GOP.gov/SOTU

In a nod to the critical role of social media in politics, House Republicans have created a web site to respond in real time to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.

The House Republican Conference's site, www.GOP.gov/SOTU, will provide a "second-screen experience" for viewers of Obama's speech tonight, Politico reports.

It will feature responses to specific parts of the president's speech in the form of GOP "fact checking," a stream of tweets from GOP leaders and supporters, infographics and other content.

Social Media has become a powerful tool during major political events, offering the television audience a running commentary from friends and experts. A politician's gaffe or turn of a phrase can pop up almost instantly as a meme that catches fire on the internet.

Via Politico

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Zazziness

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Oh good. So we'll know what the parrots will have to say before they cut-and-paste it on every forum they can reach.
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thatgirl

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Did you read Andy Borowitz's column today? Hilariously accurate.
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Zazziness

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@thatgirl I have now. And yeah, that's about right.
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it already started
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/12/anoth...
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martydotcom

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@thatgirl I sent the link to the column to @bsking who better?
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thatgirl

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@martydotcom omg, thats hilarious!
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Denizen_Kate

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I prefer to listen to the entire SOTU uninterrupted and form my own opinions. I listen, I take a few notes, then I go online and look things up.
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DogLady_1

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Thank you! I prefer to listen, research, then form my own opinion... the only people I see online during a SOTU are the name callers, blamers and whiners anyway... IMHO... But the day after is a lot of fun!
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martydotcom

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Pre speech headlines: passed over due to Dorner in Ca: the dynamic duo of John McCain (R-Angry/Senile)!-and Lindsey Graham (R-Closet) having vapors and hissy fits over including gays in immigration bill and Chuck Nagel as Sec of Def s
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harold_lloyd

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I'm sorry, that sort of rationality almost disqualifies you at this site. Please be more careful.
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Denizen_Kate

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@harold_lloyd - Yeah, I know . . . I've been tilting at this windmill for awhile now. :)
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Denizen_Kate

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@harold_lloyd - You know, they say a pessimist is an optimist with experience. Maybe an optimist is a pessimist with a bad memory?
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Hireman

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Lots of bobble heads accomplishing nothing.
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Jack-Black

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I will read the transcript. His voice is graining to me....
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Denizen_Kate

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I understand; I had the same problem with GW Bush. I like Obama's voice, though. Don't much like him, but his voice is rather mellow.
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@Denizen_Kate Look up Key and Peele on YouTube. They do the best impression by far that I have ever seen of the President. He has his mannerisms down to a tee. The slight pause, the "Uh..." Its funny stuff.
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Denizen_Kate

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@Fishbone345 - Thanks! I love Luther the anger translator, ROFLMAO!
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Synthesis

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I'll grab the popcorn!
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jessejaymes

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Why bother to watch institutionalized promises that always turn out to be lies. I can look them up later on fact check and get high blood pressure then.
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Denizen_Kate

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Jesse, two things:

1) They make pills for that.
2) Don't you want to watch in case Ted Nugent does something interesting? This SOTU could turn out to be quite a hoot.
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@Denizen_Kate I gave that some consideration. But after seeing Nugent with Piers Morgan I've come to the conclusion Nugent doesn't have the conjones to act out at the SOTU. I've come to the realization that I have more fun things to do (like this) than to sit and listen to my 55th state of the union LIES.
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culinary

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I'm not watching it either. I have more important things to do....UK is playing tonight!
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Fishbone345

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@jessejaymes Nugent doesn't have half the cojones that he thinks he does. And I find it somewhat saddening to think that the same people that condemn Hollywood celebrities as being too stupid to possibly listen to, take this mans words to heart every chance they get. If there is one type of person that I despise the most? Its a Hypocrite. I have such a strong strong loathing for that type of person, that the word hatred doesn't even touch it.
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texas_cutie75

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I'd prefer not to drag my facebook into this.... Politics stay over here!:-)
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DARSB

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Rep Stockman and his little friend Ted Nugent will be live Tweeting under the #youlie hashtag. #itworkedsowelllasttime
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jessejaymes

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I myself will be conducting a separate poll tonight. Whether Nancy Grace or Rachel Maddow has the most irritating voice on Television.
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jessejaymes

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Now that Silly Sarah is no longer on Fox of course.
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Nancy Grace gets my vote hands down.
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martydotcom

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@jessejaymes can't discount lockjaw Greta, Meagan has snatched
the irritating snark award from Rachel who remain the fastest paced annoyingly shrill voice on TV.
How would you like to have the hairspray franchise selling to all the Fox News helmet heads? Some one tell Sean his toupee is askew
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stephen

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who wants to listen to karl marxist obama!!
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DARSB

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Nancy Grace, hands down. Or maybe it's just her cold-bitch persona...
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jessejaymes

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I'll record you vote. I'm taking this pool because i can't make a decision. Both of them flat out make me want to shoot the TV.
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DogLady_1

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“Every person in America has done or said something that would keep him or her from being president. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ‘character issues’!”-P.J. O’Rouke
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mtkopf

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Speaking of booze I got a 12 pack of Amstel light chilling for sotu.
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Zazziness

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The only conservative pundit worthy of the title.
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I think while Obama is giving his speech I will be on the toilet. Just because he's full of s*** doesn't mean I have to be too. LOL! I really crack myself up.
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texas_cutie75

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I laughed so hard I spit water out of my nose!! Holy smokes!!
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FollowTheMoney

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I have absolutely no interest in the Presidents annual sales pitch. Nor am I interested in hearing members of the power parties and pundits tell me what to think. If they are not talking about flat/fair tax, term limits, ending corporate welfare or restoring the sovereignty of the states, then it's just more of the same. The same old self promoting career politicians preparing for the next election or post government employment.
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MadAmerican

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Obama will just spin what is said by Americans or just ignore it like he does congress and national security.
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Romney2012

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IMPEACH OBAMA!
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crusader

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I am not sure any of my facebook friends follow politics, I know for sure most don't. So I don't want post there jsut to ahve to explain it. I know one is completely liberal and has a Hillary 2016 tag on her facebook page. So she probably follows politics but I would prefer not to speak with her, especially since it would just be a political argument.
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CaryNickel

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Hell. I won't even be watching the speech. There is nothing Obama has to say that I care to hear, and I don't need to agitation. I'll probably watch a couple episodes of "StarTrek: Enterprise" on Netflix.
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cat2009

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Who really monitors this site. A lot of great comments on all the time but is the message really getting out.
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DARSB

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I'm disappointed. Not much traffic there and Rep Stockman failed to Tweet out his reactions with that #youlie hashtag.

I did see Ted Nugent playing with a pen. Maybe he's a little too old for Twitter.
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