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Washington Gearing Up For Tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner
 

Washington Gearing Up For Tonight's White House Correspondents' Dinner

Washington, D.C. is gearing up for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner tonight. Comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brian will host the event which brings together journalists, government officials, politicians and media personalities to poke fun at one another. O’Brien has tweeted and referenced his next gig several times: In D.C. to perform at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Practicing my opening “Goofy Sunglasses” bit: bit.ly/15RpxA2 — Conan [...]

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Hilarious #BadBuzzFeedLists Trends on Twitter

BuzzFeed, the site notorious for making tons of lists about the most random things ever, published an article recently about their worst lists ever…and then got #badbuzzfeedlists trending. Talk about a weird PR strategy. Here are some of the best tweets! Yes, they did it. #badbuzzfeedlists buzzfeed.com/scott/the-65-t… — Chris Forewit (@forewit) April 13, 2013 One can only hope to get a Ph.D. in International Relations and spend Friday nights creating #BadBuzzFeedLists, just [...]

Best Twitter Reactions to BuzzFeed Employee Tweeting Gay Group, "Suck My D*ck"

It was the tweet heard ’round the world. BuzzFeed Senior Copywriter, Josh Fjelstad, vulgarly tweeted for a gay conservative Republican group to “suck his dick.” Fjelstad dug his heels in then later deleting the tweet. BuzzFeed employees should know that scrubbing the internet and not apologizing only makes it worse. We decided to round up some of the reactions: Chris Barron is a Co-Founder and the Board Chairman Emeritus of [...]

Scrubbing Fail: BuzzFeed's @JoshFjelstad Deletes Tweets Telling Gay Group to 'Suck His Dick'

Yesterday Viral Read was the first to report the crude tweets Josh Fjelstad, BuzzFeed’s Senior Copywriter, tweeted out to the world. Enraged by news that the gay conservative Republican organization, GOProud, is back to backing gay marriage (but now more formally) he mentioned the group and tweeted for it to, “SUCK MY DICK.” They were obviously too late in sharing Fjelstad’s same political position for him. Coverage followed our story over [...]

BuzzFeed Senior Copywriter, Josh Fjelstad, Tells Gay Republican Group to 'Suck His Dick' (Update: Fjelstad digs in)

An article from his colleague promoted BuzzFeed Senior Copywriter, Josh Fjelstad to tweet “WOW GOPROUD FINALLY CAME OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE. SO PROGRESSIVE. SO PROUD OF YOU. SUCK MY DICK.” Chairman Emeritus Chris Barron retweeted the tweet, adding Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith to the tweet. GOProud’s Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia told Viral Read, “It is not an appropriate tweet from someone who is a senior copy writer at BuzzFeed. [...]