TPM does the (100th) day in 100 seconds

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Twitter is a passing fad that soon will go the way of Citizens Band radio

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 Remember the CB radio craze of the 1970s? It came and went in the blink of an eye — and the same thing seems likely to happen to Twitter, the social-networking phenomenon.

 My sense from the get-go that Twitter was just a passing fad is vindicated by THIS REPORT.

 With any luck, I’ll get through this life without ever having tweeted — just as I’ve never used a CB radio and never will.

This stuff is a Hoot (in more ways than one)

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 Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a rising star among the right-wing booboisie, tries here to blame Franklin Roosevelt for the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was one of the causes of the Great Depression.

 But Bachmann botches the name of the act, calling it “Hoot-Smalley,” and ignores the fact that it was a measure authored by congressional Republicans and signed into law by a Republican president — nearly three years before Roosevelt took office.

100 days of opposition to Obama

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 In a post earlier today (HERE), I showed you a collection of anti-Obama clips from Fox News over the past 100 days.

 Here’s more such stuff from various sources:

Ten achievements by Obama you hadn’t noticed

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 From health care to transportation, from urban policy to the environment, the Obama administration has ACCOMPLISHED MORE in its first 100 days than even most of its supporters realize.

Fox News is an alternate universe

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 President Obama has remained consistently popular among the American people through his first 100 days in office and now enjoys the approval of about two-thirds of the populace.

 But you’d never know it by watching this kind of coverage from Fox News over those same 100 days:

Swine flu public service announcements of 1976

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Whistling past the graveyard

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 Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol counterintuitively ARGUES that Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party actually is good for the GOP.

 (Check out the comments at the bottom of Kristol’s piece.)

 POSTSCRIPT: On the other hand, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee says the GOP won’t remain a viable national party if it continues its move to the far right:

DNC marks Obama’s first 100 days in the White House with a 1-minute TV ad

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