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Florida Gov. Retweets ‘Jacka**‘ Comment During ’Twitter Town Hall’

What can go wrong during a “Twitter town hall?” There are no live questions, no unsuspected outbursts, and the “speaker” is in control of everything. Unless you’re new Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) and you retweet a profane message.

The process was fairly simple. Scott picked 22 questions to retweet, and then responded with an answer. There were questions about living in the state capital, Tallahassee, his thoughts on offshore drilling, and his plan for the Department of Corrections. But it’s not the 22 questions that are getting the most attention. It’s the 23 one — apparently retweeted by accident — that’s grabbing headlines.

That tweet came from user “Pretty Twister” who asked: “So what, are you gunna fire everyone and hire Walmart employees? Yeah, thats great… you jackass.”

Florida Gov. Retweets Jacka** Comment During Twitter Town Hall

Following the format of the evening, Scott’s posting of the comment made it seem as if he would answer. He didn’t. Instead, he thanked everyone for their tweets and signed off.

The profane tweet was later deleted from the exchange.

The event in general, however, was being hailed as a success. Scott even picked up 1,000 Twitter followers on Thursday.

Comments (54)

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Mohammad rode in on a jacka$$ named Barrack(sp?). So I guess it was a government reference made here. Barrack is the profane word I used.

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  • Tracking
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:18pm

    Also, I know Gov. Scott, personally and campaigned for him. We all hope he does what he promised. One thing we do know, he is not an innocent and knows how to take the issues on head first. We did not want to elct a “wussy” for the job and hopefully we didn’t. You just can‘t put someone into politics who doesn’t know how the game is played and is too clean. We must have fighters in these positions and someone who is not afraid to get into the game and know how it’s played.

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    • Richard M
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:12pm

      Well, I for one, am tired of the ‘game playing’ going on in politics. We need as many ‘too clean’ newcomers so they can actually change the game. Enough with game playing, let’s get down to some serious matters and stop playing the game.

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  • Tracking
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:14pm

    The whole reason the Unions are picketing and targeting Wal Mart and the developers of Wal Mart right now is because they are angry. Wal Mart would not go Union and fought them. The Unions have Lawsuits against Wal Mart and will do anything to ruin them.
    I don’t want a Wal Mart in every town and city. They sell nothing but Chinese and foreign trash and cater to illegals, at least in my town. WE don’t ( any of us) dare go there alone or at night. I live in Florida and know what I am talking about, at least for here in my town. I am not speaking for others. The Unions will do anything and I do mean anything, to obtain more power, corner all the jobs, grow their membership and collect the fees and dues. Now they are suing a major grocery store chain so that unions can come in and influence and stir up controversy and try to recruit members. Then they turn around and use those funds from members to donate to campaign coffers and influence policy making. We have more union officials in the White House now than ever in history. What does that say to you? One must understand that once any group or organization gains this much power, they fully intend to use it and everyone will be at their mercy. Look at what’s happened thus far….Now they have positions in this administration and protection with this president. That should alram all of us.
    Remember when Kennedy took them on and exposed all the criminal activity and violence? Remember what happened? I hope that you do.

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  • The Bees
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:02pm

    So now we have the Jack@ss Police!

    When are we going to get over words!

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  • AlmostaCowboy
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:45pm

    Even as a born-again in the blood of Christ, evangelical, New Testament believing, Baptist I missed the “profane” part. Is it “jackass”?

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  • sethlevy
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:49am

    Rick Scott did not delete the tweet, PrettyTwister made his twitter account private, making all of his tweets only available to people he gives permission to.

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  • Tony
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:13am

    The gov was only asking the tweeter if he was a liberal democrat.. jackass seems fitting to me.

    Secondly, how I wish we could contract out the entire DC bureaucracy to Walmart! Even Larry, Curly and Moe would do better.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:32am

      The gov didn’t call anyone a jackass, pretty twister called the gov a jackass. The gov accidentally retweeted it.

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  • svedka
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:51am

    Don‘t tell the Jenny that you banned the Jackass or she’ll spend the rest of the day kicking the goats K

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  • paulnashtn
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:46am

    This is SUCH a non-story!!!! A jackass is an name for an animal and NOT profanity and the Govenor has been called worse than that on air and in print

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  • scionshade
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:25am

    Congratulations BLAZE! You’ve beaten the MSNBC bunch to the smear of a Conservative!
    GREAT JOB…with friends like you……………………………………….

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:53am

      You should reread the story. There is no smear here.Simply reporting what happened is in no way a smear.

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  • florida123
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:12am

    Jackazz is a profane word? Since when? Not the nicest word in the dictionary kind of like Puke or Fart but profane i dont think so.

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  • rstarce
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:12am

    I think Rick Scott is going to be our Governor Christie. Bold ideas, common sense, & sincere in his attempt to bring our State back to at least where Crist tried to destroy it by playing political games with no clear path for success, for the State, just for himself and even that failed.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:42pm

      I sure hope so. I hesitated voting for him because of the last Medicare scandal but did it anyway (with my fingers crossed). So far, so good.

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:59am

    Whatever, just get us off-shore drilling.

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    • Slobaphobe
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:06am

      Right on, sista!

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    • jjoy
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:58am

      I’ll second that one Granny… We have more oil reserves than the middle east, yet our stupid politicians won’t let us drill for our own oil… Meanwhile, the Cubans, Chinese, and Russians are drilling in the Gulf of Mexico…

      Drilling for our own oil would put an end to this current “recession”… Thousands of jobs would be created as the drillers hired crews… Additional crude processing plants would be built built, providing employment for construction workers… gasoline would again be less than a buck a gallon and half of our GNP wouldn’t be going to people that hate our guts…

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  • Lucifers Hammer
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:51am

    So because the gov accidentally forwards the tweet from a scat-head lib, he is responsible for the words and content of the message…which was a slam on him. Really?

    Let me get this straight. Conservatives are responsible for the shooter in AZ …not the shooter responsible for himself. And Conservatives are responsible for the words of others, not the speaker himself. So are conservatives just responsible for everything? Are libs not capable of being responsible for anything? If that’s true…then step down from office everywhere. We will gladly be responsible and take control from you juvenile POSs.

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  • Jethro212
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:49am

    If jackass is bad, well, I am really bad then… Bunch of damn cry babies. Can’t call a moron a moron, an idiot an idiot, thanks political correctness! Now morons and idiots won’t have to worry about being told HEY MORON PUT THAT DOWN!

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  • tonkaslim
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:46am

    Didn’t Obama call Kanye West a jackass? Most people probably agreed.

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  • Smitty Of The Truth
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:32am

    so he called a jackass a jackass……I think it is refreshing……….whats the big deal? is it because he has a (R) after his name…..just sayin

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:30am

    this is not news and no one cares

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  • autumnsmommie
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:29am

    REALLY? I glad hedoing what he said he would. Is it news worthy…. not really.

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  • beebacksoon
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:19am

    This is news? Who cares? Anyone?

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  • Ialmostforgot
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:19am

    If the idea is a bad idea, they need to know that.
    If the idea makes them look like a jackass, they need to know that too!

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  • Ponyexpress
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:19am

    This is news because?

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    • bikerr
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:02am

      Because he is a Republican and is taking his country back from the brink of liberalism.

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  • orcainohio
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:18am

    I like it I think opening up new ways of access to the govenor is great

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:15am

    Jackass is a profane word??

    Grow up and grow a set ya effin jackwagon.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:08am

      Be careful..If you are going to quote R. Lee Ermey you have to then apologize for your comments.

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    • BibleGunClinger
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:28am

      @MauleMall – Hilarious comment, I loved it! Ya Jackwagon! ROFLMAO

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:04am

      Last time I checked the word “Jack***” refers to a aniamil, not just to a political figure, so yes it still is a legitimate word to use; I just hate the way this PC garbage is getting anymore across the board.

      However, on the twitter part, someone may have used better judgement in the posting or sending of the tweet. Never have bothered with twitter so not sure exactly how it works myself.

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:29pm

      Democrats are now profane? Isn’t that the symbol for Democrats?

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:09am

    Don’t worry. Soon they may open some factories to make Chinese handcuffs.

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:24am

      Well your all invited to join me at Jackass flats here in Va..

      so named because the the racist army of the northern democrat took thier supplies across river on the backs of Jackasses..

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:53am

      He retweeted that to show the vitriol of the left. And yes, he is going to fire all of the lazy state of FL workers. They are overpaid and rude. Walmart employees would be better than what we have.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:21am

      Barry and all his minions are the jackasses. We also have a jackass flats where I live. I love that name. It says’s so much. Kind of like the word bitch, my wife hates it but it’s another one that says so much.

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    • jgeezy
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:48am

      I’d fire lazy people too

      http://practicalpolitician.wordpress.com/

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:01am

      @Searching for the truth

      Unfortunately you are correct; the chinese will be running the country soon enough due to the amount of debt we are owing them. They are the new land lord – bankers, and they hold the mortgage to which our current political body may default upon.

      I pray all goes well.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:48am

      Just as long as they are made from cheap Chinese plastic instead of American Steel.

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:54am

      well if he fired the unions and hired walmart employees you just may get your moneys worth out of the workers then. union workers are lazy and thugs its time they go by the wayside. unions have outlived their usefulness.

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    • Occamz Razor
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 11:57am

      @chiefgeorge
      If only we still made steel in the USA. Or, anything substantial, for that matter. The geniuses in our Federal Government have managed to turn our economy into mostly Service oriented. Our production and industrial capacities have dropped to almost nil. We grow the cotton, but don’t make the towels, or clothes, or cloth. We export the cotton and then import the finished goods! The only thing we produce in large amounts is entertainment and BS.

      I recently had a conversation with an immigrant from Lithuania who was lamenting the loss of the America of the 80s. The Reagan Era America that brought down the Iron Curtain, that faced down Khaddafi, that faced down the Air Traffic Contorllers Union threatening to blackmail the government. The days when we had a backbone and actually stood for and believed in something.

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    • HUNITHUNIT
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:12pm

      Snowleopard- are you aware of how much of our debt China actually holds?

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    • Sam I am
      Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:48pm

      Now, you see why the politicians lost in Florida. They wanted to keep all the excess baggage.

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