Secret Service agents going insane from monitoring "blathering" on Fox News

Turns out it's not just news organizations that are grappling with proper Twitter etiquette for their employees. The U.S. Secret Service has also hit a social media snag, via an all-too-candid tweet on Fox News that forced the agency to issue a rare official apology. And to compound the Secret Service's very bad week on social media, it's also won plenty of adverse coverage for pulling a 13-year-old boy out of school to interrogate him over a Facebook post, without his mother on hand to safeguard his interests..

The government security body issued an apology Wednesday after one of its employees seemed to blast Fox News on the agency's official Twitter account, which was registered with the micro-blogging service on May 9.

The offending message (seen at right) was promptly deleted from the account, but not before being re-tweeted. It said: "Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110519/ts_yblog_thecutline/secret-service-issues-mea-culpa-for-accidental-anti-fox-news-tweet

Taking a bullet for the President? That's what they signed up for. But watching for threats amidst all the ravings and rantings on Fox News? Ouch.

Maybe it's an 'initiation' thing the new guys have to go through.

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...the Toughest of the Tough, the most Ethical of the Ethical, and all that, but wow.

I never realized.

::shudder::

Thank you, brave and tough men and women of the Secret Service, doing some of the toughest, dirtiest, most dangerous and painful jobs in our nation!

respectfully,
Bright

...if get what I mean.:evilgrin:

While you are relaxing perfectly still in freezing cold surf with a telephone pole on your chest, the real men over at CIA are listening to fox news!

:-) K&R