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Would You Pay $47K For an Inaugural Package That Includes a ‘Twitter Butler’?

Jan. 8, 2013 2:23pm Guest Post

[Editor’s note: The following is a cross post by Jodi Gralnick that originally appeared on CNBC.com]:

If you’re heading to D.C. for the presidential inauguration, make sure to bring your Social Media Butler.

Don’t have one? No problem. The Madison Hotel will provide one for you, as part of its “Inaugural Town and Country” package.

The cost: $47,000. (And you’d still need a ticket to the inauguration or any of the swanky inaugural balls.)

That buys:

A 4-night stay for two in one of the Madison’s Presidential Suites
A private Lincoln Town Car and driver
A private tour of D.C. with 22 of your closest friends
A $5,000 shopping “experience” at Brooks Brothers
A night at the Landsdowne Resort with a couple’s massage
And, of course, that “Dedicated Social Media Butler.”

What exactly is a social media butler?

Meet “Dedicated Social Media Butler” Victoria Devine of Anchor Media. If you engage her services, Devine will “chronicle your Inaugural experience so your friends and family can follow your adventures on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.”

That way, if you do score tickets or a ball invitation, your Social Media Butler can tell everyone about it for you. She can follow you around taking pictures during your sightseeing. And if you happen to be gripping and grinning with the Partier-in-Chief you don’t have to reach for your iPhone. You can just call on your butler to snap the shot and tweet it out.

Or, you can leave your butler behind with all your account information, and send her your images, so she can upload them for you. But that sounds like more work than doing it yourself.

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bumfuzeled
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 7:21pm
I would not pay 47 cents if the package came with hookers and online gambling privileges.

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Mr. H.
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 2:23pm
Anyone that would spend $47K on that package has insufficient common sense to be allowed to manage that much discretionary income.

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bankerpapaw
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:08am
I wouldn’t pay .47 cents to see the little dictator crowned.

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Red Ruffansore
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 8:07am
I would gleefully pay that and more if part of the program included Der ObaMeinFuhrer spontaneously bursting into flames and running about the stage like a human Tiki torch but since it’s going to be a love fest for a demented narcissist with messianic overtones….NO.

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clinker
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 5:33am
I wonder if the o campaign will get 47% of the take?

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Kathleen3
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 8:43pm
Someone would have to pay ME $47K to attend this nightmare (aka inauguration) for America.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 8:41pm
I won’t have anything to do with twitter.

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spirited
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 8:19pm
Wasn’t there a rent-a-President’s-room during the Clinton residency –too?

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zoro51
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:46pm
id not even pay a dime just to peek I DID NOT VOTE FOR THE SOCIALIST the first time nor 2nd time.. IMPEACH THE KENYAN BORN RAPIST OF AMERICA NOW END THE WANNA BEA DICTATORS REIGN.. IMPEACH OBAMA HES NOT AMERICAN BORN AND A DAMN SOCIALIST WHOSE LIED TO AMERICA FORM DAY ONE

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Jake Dog2
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:24pm
I would not pay 47 cents.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:30pm
  Me either. Or 47 beans.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:48pm
  @KICKAGRANDMA
  
  Is that some sort of racist joke?
  
  Are you referring to ‘refried beans’?
  
  Hehehe :)
  
  I think the correct answer is: “Not only no, but heck no!!”
  
  I am in constant amazement as I peruse the Left-wing websites. It’s like a totally different view of the world and what is going on.
  
  I try hard to find some common ground, but I’m afraid we have entered into the ‘last days’ and everything is topsy-turvy.
  
  The “Unmentionable One” is about to have 4 more years to destroy what’s left of this country, and people are cheering?!
  
  In the words of KICKAGRANDMA: “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!!”
  
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bava
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:19pm
This is kinda funny. 90% of this site’s hard hitting ‘news’ articles are set up to let the majority of it’s readership spit venom. I suppose it’s cheaper than some meds. I’m just waiting for the results on the ‘very scientific’ gun poll results The Blaze is conducting. I bet I’m a psychic.

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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:26pm
  I bet you are a psycho.
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:11pm
Loyal subjects you are cordially invited to your rulers imaculation,join me and my beard as we celebrate four more years of destruction of the west.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:41pm
  Hi TIMEBOMB,
  
  Your slipping…. now, what did you forget?
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Yes yes Praise be to me BHO. My mind wanders sometimes with all my manufactured crisis.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:11pm
I agree with SNOW. I would only pay that amount of money to help see AMERICA FREE again.

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toiletclogga
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:05pm
I’d rather wipe up my rear with $47k than spend it on this fiasco!

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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:13pm
  You gotta see this to believe it!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjnUbds-JMU
  
  More of the agenda to use public policy to subvert America from inside, infiltrate and influence our culture driving us in a direction designed to destroy us. . No conspiracy – just verifiable facts! If you don’t know all this you need to find out!
  
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. I have watched it 12X to absorb all that is in it…give it 5 minutes and you won’t be able to walk away
  
  Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,
  It is free on line for the moment
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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cantwaitfor2012
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:57pm
I would not walk across the street to see the Immaculation if it were free!

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cassandra
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:54pm
the only thing I would pay for is to see obummer testity before Congress on where was when our consulate was being attacked/ they had real time video in the situation room he had to be informed so what did he do after ?and why did he go to Vegas the next morning after knowing Americans were under attack and killed ? I thought he was suppose to be commander and chief of our Armed forces ? Why did you keep saying it was because of a you-tube video,Why did you send Rice out on TV to make a fool of herself when you had the intell that it was a terrorist attack ?When you knew our Ab was missing why didn’t you send in forces to find him ? this attack went on for 7 hours what were you doing all this time ? answer the questions please Mr.Barrack Hussain Obama

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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 10:26pm
  BHO was thinking Los Vegas
  
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biohazard23
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:50pm
Wow, you mean someone’s gonna get a “loan” from the Bank of Mom and Dad to pay for this? And I thought Mom and Dad already had to pay $18000 for their offspring’s birth control. Wow, kids these days feel so entitled to everything….. :)

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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:44pm
If it somehow happens that I become rich, and then proceed to spend my money on something like that, I will be entirely within my rights to do so. But, I do hope my father loves me enough, to whip my azz until I get some sense back into my head… and I’m almost 50.

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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:50pm
  Not even if I could be on stage with Obama.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:32pm
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$47k for Twitter Butter? Is that the LGBT pkg?…………That’s just sick…………

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:45pm
  The LGBT package is an upgrade from the Twitter Butler, the upgrade is an additional $20k, but includes Twitter Butler, Facebook Fairy, Text Maid and a real life Tickle Me Elmo, including the guy who does Elmos’ voice.
  
  But for an additional $100k, you can just get Barney Frank to follow you around and he provides all those services for free.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:31pm
We’re going to pay a hell of a lot more than 47k to keep the queen in chief in power that’s for sure.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Indeed, the only thing I would remotely consider that kind of money to see with the Obama’s is as they are sentenced to life in prison for their crimes.
  
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Exidor
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:30pm
More SPENDING…..

No thanks

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Top_Contributor
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:27pm
Trick question. Blazers don’t have that much cash.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:35pm
  You think that’s a question fool? You’re a government tool that explains your idiocy.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:36pm
  Great post Brokeback Mountain.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:44pm
  ARMED Pay no heed to top contraband as his magnificent ruler I can attest to the fact that he contributes to me routinely. I played ball with him in college,I pitched he caught,sometimes he pitched I caught,we had our ups and downs. Praise be to me BHO.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:57pm
  Yes, BOMB, I was pretty sure you two had a past. But with friends like that, who needs Syphilis, right ?
  
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- llotus
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:58pm
  top-con……….probly have more than you. I wouldn`t give 47 cents for the whole dam thing. Lotus.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:06pm
  ARMED Lol good one armed you will receive one extra ration of soylent green,your magnificent ruler appreciates comedy.Praise be to me BHO.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:23pm
  I appreciate that BOMB. I do what i can ( which isn’t much ). See you later.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:53pm
  If you can afford to throw 47000 around just to see the clueless man-child be placed back into office, fraudulently, then you are one of his targets. Shouldn’t the rich be wary of, and hating the president, or is it because they know they won’t be the ones paying taxes? It’s all going to fall upon the backs of the middle class, again. Don’t believe anyone who campaigned using the words ” middle class.”
  
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