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October 15, 2008 by Colin

It’s been a long time since I’ve featured a quote from Scott Feschuk, humorist, former speech writer for Prime Minister Paul Martin and communications consultant. This is from his liveblog of the Canadian election results:

“… 11:15 p.m. I know the Internet is resilient, but I’m not sure it has the power to survive these painful segments when some poor soul from the mainstream media is reduced to reading twitters and tweets and twirps and cockadoodle-doos from that special segment of the illiterate that prefers to communicate in seven-word bursts. Harper bad. Dion bad. Harper badder. No, Dion badderer. Me like eggs!!!!! …”

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  1. watercooler » Word around the web, politicalism hangover edition says:
    2008/10/15 at 12:12

    [...] Remember those ‘this is your brain on drugs’ commercials? Here’s the 2.0 equivalent, so replace drugs with Twitter and mix with the election – CanuckFlack [...]

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