Ann Coulter was reportedly insulted in a Microsoft tweet on Saturday. (AP File Photo)
Politico is reporting that Microsoft accidentally delved into the world of partisan politics over the weekend after tweeting out a message insulting conservative author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter.
In response to liberal economist Robert Reich’s tweet that he would be visiting his granddaughter and sitting on a panel with Coulter over the weekend, the tech giant’s official Twitter feed reportedly responded: “@RBReich your granddaughter’s level of discourse and policy > those of Ann Coulter.”
Here is a purported image of the tweet:
(Photo: Twitter/@Mobtivate)
The tweet was deleted immediately, according to Politico, and was accidentally written by one of the individuals who manages the company’s Twitter account.
“[The] tweet obviously is not an official statement by the company,” Microsoft stated in a press release.
Microsoft spokeswoman Christina Pearson added: “One of the people who manages our corporate twitter account thought he was tweeting from their personal twitter account on Saturday morning but tweeted from our corporate account by mistake…That person immediately realized his mistake and deleted the tweet from our corporate account. We have taken steps to help ensure that this kind of mistake doesn’t happen again.”
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338lapua
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:20pmLefty turds are less than a dime a dozen.[adjusted for inflation] I am sure Ann will have a sweet rebuttal to this stupidity.
ALL HAIL BILL
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Teabunny
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:04pmClinton? the guy kiss MB axx right now? got your blue dress? I hear its required for the posture you propose!
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oldduffer
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:13pmBill Gates has always been like his father. Liberal Democrat. Look where he went to school and what state he came from. Washington….Next to San Fran it’s a liberal training ground.
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Stuck_in_CA
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:28pmIt always puzzles me how affluent Lefties can be so against the Capitalist system. The very economic system that has brought them success. And then, to vote for the political party with Communists running it.
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ZengaPA65
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:48pmSo what
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Kregneva
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:50pmYou are named after a company that is trying to dominate the sniper market, doing well.
We are very impressed.
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sWampy
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:52pmBecause they are rich, once you are rich, you vote liberal because it’s the liberals that create all the loop holes that allow the rich to get richer on the backs of the poor.
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jzs
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:54pmStuck_in_CA says, “It always puzzles me how affluent Lefties can be so against the Capitalist system.”
“Lefties” love capitalism. I realize your post sound cute to many, but would you care to give an example of a “leftie” who condemns capitalism? A quote from Obama maybe? What’s the basis or your cutesy post?
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RANCHO_DEL_VALKAYRIE
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:03pmSTUCK_IN_CALIFORNIA
What is even more amazing is that foaming at the mouth, panting, Democratic reggressive liberals, have hoodwinked the masses in believing that the Republican party is the party of wealth. Nothing is farther from the truth. Democrates have been so since the slavery days..
They are also the wealthest members in both chambers of Congress. And if you take a look at the Forbes list of wealthiest U.S. you’ll find out the majority are of Democratic perssuasion including 7 of the top ten. while holding the top spot 2 spots in Gates and Buffett.
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The_Edge
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:14pmWould that be Bill Clinton? You know, that awful racist Obama referred to in 2008, but now has him starring in his pitiful TV ads. So, when is the Lewinsky book out?
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DemsRLiars
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:15pmJZS is right. All ******** love capitalism. If it wasn’t around, who would they steal from to buy votes?
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jzs
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:43pmWampy says, “Because they are rich, once you are rich, you vote liberal because it’s the liberals that create all the loop holes that allow the rich to get richer on the backs of the poor.”
Huh? It it opposites day? Get some sleep swampy.
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Libertarian
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:54pmI live in Washington State, Bill Gates is a huge enviro-mental-case. He is helping sustain Agenda 21 here in WA State. The regulations coming down the pipe here are absolutely absurd and unreasonable, despite Washington States constitution’s great protections of property right.
Our states enviro-mental-cases need to be challenged using the States own constitutional protection of private property.
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QuincySmith
Sep. 23, 2012 at 10:46pmStuck;
It’s called, “I got mine, and I’m gonna keep it”!
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Sara123
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:00pmMaybe Microsoft would have a change of heart if they knew Annie has come out for socialized medicine and the gay special rights agenda. She bent herself into a progressive pretzel to fit into Romney’s shoes.
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Oneirishman
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:04pm@JZS
Michael Moore is a lefty who says he hate capitalism.
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meeester
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:04pmJZS Examples? How about every old line network anchor person? Then how about the Occupy crowd and their supporters? What are the they; the favorites of the Tea Party set? Quite the opposite. The list of people supportive of that clueless rabble is extensive and Left/liberal (liberal in the modern distorted definition; not Liberal as in how the Tea Party are, ala Jeffersonian Liberal). Then we have people like you who profess not to be aware of such a thing! At least if you are clueless you can plead ignorant and perhaps benefit from additional input. At least ignorant is a higher position of intellectual expression than the hypocrite that is so common on the Left. How ridiculuos is it that singers, actors, ball players, and media people making good money point accusatory fingers at someone running a business and who is responsible for the continuity of the livelihood of many people?
Hypocrites will probably be a burden for reasonable people to endure for life. At least clueless or ignorant have a chance. Hope and Change we say (how’s that for some efficient recyling? Hope & Change 2012.
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Cemetery
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:50pmPoor Ann, it’s tough being a conservative woman in this sexist, liberal biased political season.
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ijava44
Sep. 24, 2012 at 2:31amThe level of Bill Gates’ microsoft OS system stability and engineering prowess < than Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds. Wasted a lifetime on Blue Screen of Death. Learned my lesson. Now a mac OS X and Linux Ubuntu user. Goodbye Bill and your worthless, overpriced crap.
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maverick4harlot
Sep. 24, 2012 at 2:42amI am FAR from even being close to being the smartest person in my county but if you TRULY believe that Ann Coulter is conservative then you are nothing more than an idiot. Ann Coulter isnt conservative AT ALL. She plays conservative to rile us up. She is a liar of the worst kind. If you dont believe me, If you dont know her for what she is, if you trust her, you need to grow up, you need to learn to see through the lies, you need to teach yourself what is real and what isnt. Ann Coulter is one of the biggest LIARS in this entire world. I am a true conservative and libertarian, SHE ACTS as such. She does everything within her power to make you believe she is conservative. SHE ISNT. She never was and never will be. READ HER EYES and you will know the truth.
GRIZZ MANN
Sep. 24, 2012 at 3:15amJust an accident? Did they make their contribution to the Democrats?
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chucksue351
Sep. 24, 2012 at 6:04amwhen will you all learn that all and i mean all economic systems are capitalistic, the difference is in who is in control of the capital, free market (the people) or communistic (the state)
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lloydc1234
Sep. 24, 2012 at 7:43amAnn? She’s a joke.
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johnjamison
Sep. 24, 2012 at 8:09amOPPPS!
Get real Microsoft is totally liberal and in thye bag for Obama……IT’S NO SECRET
Bill Gates is one of the most liberal business owners in history he almost more of a deomcrat than the founders of the KKK
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Sep. 24, 2012 at 8:21amJZS
Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:54pm
“Lefties” love capitalism. I realize your post sound cute to many, but would you care to give an example of a “leftie” who condemns capitalism? A quote from Obama maybe? What’s the basis or your cutesy post?
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Are you a real human, JZS…or just a fax machine at a local Democrat headquarters? Of all the crap you throw against the wall every day to cover up for the biggest, most complete failure in the history of the American presidency, this may top them all.
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TexasJack58
Sep. 24, 2012 at 10:27amTea, he’s talking Bill Gates
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TEA Runner
Sep. 24, 2012 at 10:59amRobert Reich is the guy who went on NPR and called a tax cut “income reditribution.”
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Dorugremon
Sep. 24, 2012 at 2:50pmCobraBill
Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:28pm
Try Ubuntu Linux or Fedora Linux, Linux is a great operating system for your computer and it is FREE.
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I prefer Slackware
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sixtysix
Sep. 24, 2012 at 3:09pmNot one of these “tweeters” has the nerve to confront Ann Coulter face to face. Hide behind snarky tweets, blogs, whatever; never try to make an argument with a woman who is so superior intellectually and has so much more courage than they.
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BarryHusseinOsama
Sep. 24, 2012 at 4:48pmHail CobraBill! You’re right, there are a lot of excellent FREE operating systems available! somebody’s gonna get s#$&canned!
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environmentalandawake
Sep. 24, 2012 at 9:21pmIn response to Libertarians post. I can’t comment as to the extent of Bill gates involvement, but the rest of your post is spot on. Here’s how they are doing it. They are using “The Endangered Species Act Sec. 6″ to gain possesin of lands under the guise of species protection. It would be great if Mr. Beck would research this matter and expose it for what it is. Go to the USFWS web and find the ESA awards. 2012 was just published. In 2011 they awarded Wa. for the preservation of the Brown Trout in North Blues. They listed the Grey Wolf as a species being helped by the move. I’m not kidding! Will give you links if you like.
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siquijorisland
Sep. 24, 2012 at 11:41pmso are you sure it was accidental?
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TJexcite
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:20pm“We have taken steps to help ensure that this kind of mistake doesn’t happen again.”
By firing him and/or not allowing anyone to log on to the corporate twitter account anywhere but at the office. Not on their phone that they also use for their personal account. No one be allowed to update the company website with this, the twitter is the same thing.
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Sara123
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:05pmThey didn’t fire him. Mircosoft is a globalist progressive corporation. Gates is real into population reduction and control, if you get my drift.
Like the liberal media, these liberal CEO’s are going to run their corporations out of business. Don’t invest in liberal corporations. They are going the way of the New York Times.
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soisay
Sep. 24, 2012 at 2:27pmSome poor administrator, sitting in a cubicle (or maybe a tech room full of servers), types out a snarky note to his buddies. Then he finds out he logged into the master account used for sending out system wide virus warnings or outage alerts. It will certainly be the LAST time he does that, poor devil. And it should be a nice warning to all low level rats like us to be careful when given internet responsibilities for our employers. The higher the access, the higher the attention is needed. This guy will never get the missile launch codes now.
By the way, this has as much to do with Bill Gates as it does with Rupert Murdoch or the Queen of England, and I think everybody here knows it. The more we stray off onto these subjects, the more we alienate the independent voters we need in November. When we look like idiots, independents won’t trust our side with governing the country. We need to clean up our act and let their side be the only goofballs on the internet.
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RayOne
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:19pmThe BOD did not mean for it to happen, the share holders will pay.
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jimtrees
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:32pmOne lost sale from this will hurt already slumping sales.
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Blazed_and_Confused
Sep. 25, 2012 at 7:40pmLmao
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Swimming-with-the-Sharks
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:19pmReally? No way! Who would have ever thought that MS had an liberals occupying the highest levels of leadership in the company.
I always thought it was those who’s employees were made up of “60s-70s -dope smoking-hate America- press for freedom but promote socialism-aim for high profits but spread everybody else’s wealth around-geneation X” posers.
Wait, I just described Microsoft.
Never mind.
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Marine25
Sep. 25, 2012 at 5:02pmYou need not be a liberal to know that Coulter is an embarrassment to conservatism.
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2smart4libs
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:16pmIts an accident when your a 3 year old boy with your hand in the cookie jar. Its not when your a multinational corperation
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KickinBack
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:19pmBam! Right on the mark.
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GloWormy
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:16pmWhy the heck was the moron tweeting on the clock? I’d get so fired
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riseandshine
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:55pmWhat I’d like to know is can The Blaze possibly suck worse than it does?
grayling646
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:09pm(sigh)
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Cosmos102
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:10pm@Riseandshine
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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Wool-Free Vision
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:14pm@riseandshine
“What I’d like to know is can The Blaze possibly suck worse than it does?”
Yes, but they’d have to change their name to Politico.
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riseandshine
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:21pmSorry.
Picolopete
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:35pmI agree…This classless individual SHOULD be fired but i doubt Microsoft will take any action. If someone tweeted a negative comment about Obama, Microsoft would have fired them immediately. It seems that liberals always feel as though they are mentally superior and more intelligent. However,in actuality liberals have serious flaws and feel compelled to put down others in order to make themselves feel better.
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QuincySmith
Sep. 23, 2012 at 10:51pmlowanddimmer;
Why are you here?
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riseandshine
Sep. 24, 2012 at 1:06am@Quincy
I tried to get my post removed right after it posted, but The Blaze declined. I don’t want to offend anyone…I get frustrated sometimes that stories don’t come along very often that I wish to opine about. In my opinion..most of the stories that The Blaze puts out are designed to push people’s buttons…and do they ever….80% of the comments might as well be from the same person…I could on, but I’ll just leave it there. I’ll try to refrain going forward…lol.
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EricCartman_RespectMyAuthoritah
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:14pmNice job Microsoft. Not only are you inept at making software, but you also just increased the sales of Ann’s new book 10 fold! Idiots.
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Calm Voice of Reason
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:24pmDollars to doughnuts she wrote those books in Word.
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Walkabout
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:55pmDigital rights management is getting so bad if your computer motherboard dies, MS makes you buy another copy of their software. That “ain’t” cheap.
Yes I use Word. I use to use Corel. In the future I intend to leave MS for good due to cost, politics & ease of use. I shouldn’t have to relearn the interface every few years.
Bye,Bye libs.
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ExLawman
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:40pm@walkabout try OpenOffice.org
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burningsodium
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:40pmNever bought one but will buy ten of this one just for MS.
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Redwood Elf
Sep. 23, 2012 at 9:21pm@CalmVoice: Only if she’s an idiot. OpenOffice is free and does the same thing.
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Silver Lining
Sep. 23, 2012 at 10:39pmOpenOffice.org rocks.
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BlueStrat
Sep. 23, 2012 at 11:56pm@ ExLawman + Silver Lining
OpenOffice is owned by Oracle and they have allowed further development and bugfixes/updates to stagnate.
It’s gotten so bad the OO project was ‘forked” by frustrated open-source developers and the “new” suite is called “LibreOffice”.
It’s “OpenOffice continued” with all the same OO goodness, plus more features being added, bugfixes being addressed, and updates occurring that OO/Oracle have been slacking at for some time now.
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imfrzn
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:13pmTreacherous “Microsoft”. The epitomy of capitalism and cowardly standard bearer for socialist causes. If this would have been an Obama slam, heads would be rolling down the streets of Redmond, WA, but since it’s just a conservative… no worries. It all ultimately comes out in the wash since there has never been a U-Haul behind a hearse… not even for Gates.
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Spqr1
Sep. 24, 2012 at 12:43pm“socialist” causes? Do you have a problem with promoting health causes all over the world? Do you think is okay to let brown people simply die?
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XenaWP
Sep. 25, 2012 at 4:32pm@SPQRI —– LOL
My favorite saying from Eric Cartman on Southpark:
” I don’t hate black people, I hate HIPPIES.”
So, SPQRI, we don’t have a problem with brown people having healthcare, you dirty hippie. We have a problem with socialized healthcare.
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wianno94
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:13pmThis was no accident. It was inadvertent. Happens to secret tapes all the time.
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Teabunny
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:07pm“ya know, I was just sitting here (doing something the president would NEVER do) …thinking about our national debt… and how the ecb is withholding the report on greece til after the election, and how Japan is printing money now…. and I thought to myself why? then it occurred to me…. He has Rumpelstiltskin (berneke) in the backroom, spinning gold for us! and it will only cost us our first born! do you think if we guess his real name, he will stamp a hole in the floor…right into hell? “
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Jenny Lind
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:18pmMaybe he will just spin right of the planet!
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Stelex
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:26pmThe hole is already stamped, its amazing how asleep some are, its amazing how anti American a lot are, and its amazing how I’m watching my country fall to the wayside as we are invaded by almost every subtle force in the world. Illegal imigration, Islam, Progressives, Anarchists, gay’s And a commander in chief who is a devout muslim, and inelligeble to be president. Thanks to an useless congress that supposedly represents the people…………We The People have lost our voice. Start screaming or you deserve what you get. Fed up and Pissed
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Teabunny
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:29pmThe sad part about this…it is not a fairytale. This is the truth. the fairytale is this Keynesian economics…which ever way you slice it. Call it trickle down, and do it through tax cuts for the rich, to concentrate wealth at the top…or stimulus, again concentrating wealth at the top… either way, it has one result. pent up demand at the bottom, due to lack of purchasing power… that eventually leaves businesses with fewer orders, causing lay offs and less jobs, thereby reducing the ability to purchase, increasing the pent up demand. If they really wanted to fix this…they would address the problem.
Anything top heavy, is doomed to crash. the base cannot support the weight…by definition. It is like a high center of gravity, one quick turn, and boom. get ready for the Greexit, y’all… its gonna be a hexx of a ride!
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pyeatte
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:03pmMessage to Microsoft. The last thing in the world you want to do is get involved in white-hot partisan politics. You will pi*s-off half of your customers in a big way, and I am one of them. I am a huge Microsoft supporter but this strains my patience, and I do not believe for a minute this was an accident. For your own good, the people responsible for this should be fired immediately for the crime of accute stupidity – they can always get a job at the Obama campaign.
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CatB
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:33pmLike!
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lilyred
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:01pmDouble LIKE
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QuincySmith
Sep. 23, 2012 at 10:55pmpyeatte;
First rid yourself of IE (use Firefox), then Office (use Open Office), and finally windoze (use Linux – free and MUCH more stable.
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The_Jerk
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:02pmShe’s a non-conservative Christi supporter. Who cares?
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NOTSMOKINPOT
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:19pmExactly!
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338lapua
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:22pm……you really need to answer the clue phone when it rings.
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:01pmOk, love to know how even a Liberal can “accidentally” write something. Sorry I wrote this, it was completely accidental, really, it was, I didn’t mean to write this, I don’t know what happened. Yeah, well, Don’t waste your crap sandwich on me, I’ve had enough, thank you!
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:58pmYet more proof of the liberal’s war against women.
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Chet Hempstead
Sep. 23, 2012 at 7:16pmBecause they said Robert Reich’s granddaughter is smarter than Coulter? Wouldn’t the granddaughter also be a woman?
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God_Is_Not
Sep. 23, 2012 at 8:31pmHaha, he/she never thought that far ahead. He/she simply saw it as an easy, unthoughtful attack.
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Sep. 24, 2012 at 7:58amCHET HEMPSTEAD – Coulter is a successful conservative woman. They attacked her. War on women. It doesn’t matter how they did it, or which tool they used this time. Are you able to follow that, or do you need some more help?
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kickagrandma
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:57pm“Accidentally”????
Guess we cancel our twitter accounts…. okconmigo.
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ginger100
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:57pmNot Hank Williamed or Gunnied for political beliefs?
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:57pmThey will just blame the fact the guy tweeted from his I Phone, it was Apples fault.
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Zatoichi
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:57pmMy microsoft stock, sold.
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coolcat
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:56pmIf it was an accident then it who are they hiring?
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RayOne
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:55pmMicrosoft should be made to pay, enough to have it felt by the BOD and shareholders.
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Anadara
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:54pmWe have taken steps to help ensure that this kind of mistake doesn’t happen again. – He will assimilated. – Locutus of borg.
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Markie Mark
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:54pmI could care less what anyone says about Coulter… She is awesome.
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Teabunny
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:53pmlotta strange stuff lately… my facebook was just hacked for the 7th time in a year! I cannot see comments, or post, even to my wall.
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EdgeOfSanity
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:53pmAccountability never applies to the left and it is always understandable and excusable if they error.
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XenaWP
Sep. 26, 2012 at 9:24amyour post says it all.
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LeadNotFollow
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:45pm…
Microsoft “accidentally” ???
It was no accident.
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Teabunny
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:57pmlotta strange stuff…my facebook has been hacked for the 7th time in a year!
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TG360
Sep. 23, 2012 at 6:58pmIs it out of the realm of possibility that the guy was thinking he was tweeting on his own account, but was still signed into MS’s?
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