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President Obama extends his warm wishes for Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah marks the start of a new year – a time of humble prayer, joyful celebration, and hope for a new beginning. September 18, 2009. (Public Domain)
Joe Wilson is the Republican who yelled “you lie!” at Barack Obama – The President of the United States. Joe Wilson has sky-rocketed from number 516587 in the list of people I don’t like – to the top 10 (haven’t decided where yet). Anyway – check out www.joewilsonisyourpreexistingcondition.com (or click on the picture below) to read the absolute honest-to-God truth about Joe Wilson.
As many of you know, I get my Mashable news intravenously by now.
I just got my daily dose of the Social Media drip, but lo! It was laced with Government.
Congressional House Republican New Media Caucus have been holding meetings with Silicon Valley giants Oracle, Apple, Google, and UStream in the efforts to better understand the intentions of these companies as they move into their respective next stages.
This is really interesting considering the dead unsexy face the Republican party took on during the past election. Not to mention the extremely sexy face the Democratic party took on. The Democrat use of social media to reach the people probably won them the election. That, and they made sense. Nevertheless – I think the Republican Party is taking a bold step into an area that may or may not rejuvenate their image.
It’s difficult to see the intentions of the Congressional House Republican New Media Caucus in these visits. Although they did ask a lot of questions, mere curiosity cannot possibly be the cause. When was the last time you sat in a meeting, brought up an idea that would raise a lot of attention, brought “’cause it’d be pretty awesome, you know?” as a reason for the action, and didn’t get chewed out?
Does the Republican Party want to make nice-nice with Social Media in order to gain support? In order to gain control of this media? In order to offer more $$$ for these companies – and buy their favoritism? Either one would be fine – and I’m not accusing. It’s political game-play either way. But which one is it?
Should government get involved in Social Media on the Gov-Co level at all?
What do you think?
