McCrory’s spin in the twitterverse

by | Dec 7, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov | 13 comments

It looks like Governor Pat McCrory got the keys to his twitter account this weekend and took it out for a spin. On Saturday afternoon, McCrory tweeted, “Press always wants to psychoanalyze & categorize me and put me in a box. I’m focused on solving problems & rebuilding NC.” He managed to use “me” or “I” three times in a single 120 character tweet, so he’s clearly more focused on himself than anything else.

Besides sounding self-pitying and pathetic, it seemed to come from nowhere. Maybe it was a cry for help into the twitterverse from a struggling, ethically challenged governor with a victim complex. Maybe he just wanted to take another swipe at the press after launching his re-election campaign with an attack on the News & Observer. Who knows, but he clearly doesn’t understand twitter as a medium.

It brings back memories of Thom Tillis’ lonely tweets back in the winter of 2014 while he was still facing a primary. Back then, candidate Thom Tillis was putting up a bunch of silly tweets about how great he was and engaging in a bit of back-and-forth with twitter critics. It made him look less senatorial and showed his lack of understanding of twitter. After that episode, the campaign apparently took the keys away, but in the summer, he sneaked back in and got them. Maybe he just wanted to take his new souped up campaign for spin around the twitterverse as the GOP nominee. Regardless, they didn’t help his cause.

In the wrong hands, twitter is a dangerous tool. Clearly, Pat McCrory is not qualified to use it. Instead of bashing his nemesis, the press, he just exposed how self-absorbed he really is. Contrary to his tweet, nobody seems to be trying to psychoanalyze him, but tweets like this one sure bring questions about his emotional maturity.

13 Comments

  1. Buddy

    McCrory tells us he wants to continure the “Carolina Comeback.” I agree that he certainly wants to continue something, but I think he has the wrong name for it. The “Carolina Con-job,” or the “Carolina Crony-fest” would be much more accurate.

    • Tony Edward Dockery

      That is all the NC GOP are …con men, industry hacks,crooks,schemers,.bribe takers…Pay to play is here to stay…Until 2016…One term baby the conservative experiment has failed again…..They cant get enough of trickle up economics.

  2. Nortley

    “He managed to use “me” or “I” three times in a single 120 character tweet, so he’s clearly more focused on himself than anything else.”

    Isn’t self absorption pretty much the purpose of Twitter?

  3. Pete Kaliner (@PeteKaliner)

    “He managed to use “me” or “I” three times in a single 120 character tweet, so he’s clearly more focused on himself than anything else.”

    If this is the test, then the President is a raging self-absorbed narcissist.

    Seriously. Have you examined how often the President uses the words “I” and “me” in his speeches? Or -even better- the constant (and embarrassing) use of the President’s image in the official White House Twitter account? For example, the White House has sent about half a dozen tweets about Rosa Parks over the years. Not a single one used a picture of her. They all used pictures of President Obama.

    Psychoanalyze that.
    🙂

  4. Arthur Dent

    McCrory is a dangerous tool…

  5. Ebrun

    Mr. Mills chides Gov. McCrory for tweeting: “Press always wants to psychoanalyze and characterize me and put me in a box.”

    Then Mr. Mills writes that the Governor sounded “self-pitying and pathetic” and that his Twitter complaint “…seemed to come from nowhere.” After he then calls the McCrory “ethically challenged,” he characterizes the Governor’s tweet as “…a cry for help into the twitterverse…” and suggests that the Governor has a “victim complex.”

    No psychoanalysis there, right? Just more liberal hypocrisy or another mean spirited personal attack?

    • Eilene

      It’s a shame that you are so swept up in your unconditional support of anything Republican that you can’t see when one of yours makes true mistakes, or worse, intentionally lies. He has frequently been caught telling untruths, big and little. Even you can’t totally support this guy… but apparently, you’d rather nit-pick the author of this blog. It’s an opinion blog. You’re going to have to get over the fact that other people have opinions, even ones that ….gasp….don’t agree with yours. Oh well. Objectivity is apparently dead on both sides of the aisle these days, anyway, so we’ll have to disagree to disagree.

      How is this blog hypocrisy? Hypocrisy would be Thomas calling out the Governor for telling lies, then telling lies himself. That didn’t happen here. And the “attack” (which I would call “facts”) is pretty mild, if you ask me. Listen to some of the horsecrap that some of your leading presidential contenders are throwing out.

      • Ebrun

        Eilene, you write “You’re going to have to get over the fact that other people have opinions, even ones that ….gasp….don’t agree with yours.”

        Are you kidding? Do you follow the comments on this blog? NO ONE who comments here “agrees with me.” Since I’ve been commenting here, I have seen no regular commenters challenge the conventional wisdom subscribed to by liberals who post comments on this blog.

        You ask how this particular essay by Mr. Mills is hypocritical. It’s obvious. Mr. Mills attempts to”psychoanalyze the Governor writing that his tweet is “a cry for help” and that McCrory has a “victim complex.” He claims that the Governor’s complaint about being psychoanalyzed “seemed to come from nowhere.” In concluding, Mills questions McCrory’s “emotional maturity” and writes that “…nobody is trying to psychoanalyze…” the Governor.

        NOBODY??? Not even Mr. Mills?

        • Eilene

          I’ll give you that. This article was full of a bit of analysis of the Governor. And, I realize that you are used to very few people agreeing with you on this particular blog site, as it is obviously written by and for liberals primarily. But, if we tried something new, like not being so confrontational, and actually thinking about what others that you don’t usually agree with are saying, you might find that once in a while, you might change your mind about an issue here and there, and we could try compromising. Maybe we could teach this valuable lesson to our children, and our politicians… nope, that one is way above the realm of possibility.

          But, you truly can’t be a die-hard supporter of Pat McCrory… he is weak, ineffectual, and has serious trouble with the truth. For him to blame the mainstream media for being out to get him is comical. They are simply reporting on what he does…it just so happens that a good deal of what he does is ridiculous. How many lies must he tell? How many cronies will he put in positions of power after running a campaign promising to fix that very thing? How many times does he get to complain about how mean the media is before we call him out for the whiner he is? You reap what you sew…. he has done everything that they have reported. You can’t seriously blame the media for telling it like it is. Cookies, for goodness sake! He brought a protester cookies, in the middle of a busy street, then left her there to get run over by a car when his security left and let the traffic flow before making sure the protester that he had called over got safely back to the other side of the street. Cookies. What an idiot. Surely there is somebody better in your party that you could try to get elected to the Governor’s office?

          • Ebrun

            I do appreciate your civil response to my previous post. A much better way to stimulate a rational discussion rather that a condescending lecture.

            However, I don’t share your antipathy for the Governor. No doubt he participates in political activities that appear to be unseemly. But this is the way politics is played in NC. Financial supporters get favors, campaign workers get political appointments in the elected administration. In politics, “to the victor go the Spoils.” It was that way under the previous Easily and Purdue Democrat administrations and I have no reason to believe it would be any different under a Roy Cooper administration.

            So I prefer to focus on issues and policies rather than personal attacks. As a conservative, I generally support Republican policies and believe they have put the state on a track to a stronger and more vibrant economy. Job growth is now exceeding the national average, as is growth in personal income. Taxes have been reduced and state revenues have increased. Public spending restraint has been instituted and funds have been set aside in a rainy day reserve. Public debt has been reduced and in some cases eliminated.

            Election reforms have been passed and some progress has been made toward reform of public education. Regulatory reforms are also being implemented. The state’s “business climate” has soared to a top ten ranking by several national business publications. And all the while, NC is experiencing net in migration of folks from other states and countries.

            All this has been accomplished despite a well documented attempt from the very beginning of the McCrory administration to “cripple” the state’s GOP leadership through manipulation of the MSM and pressure from special interest groups (Moral Monday demonstrations). Just google “Blueprint NC” to see details of this conspiracy by left wing advocacy groups.

            Liberals ridicule the Governor for offering cookies to left wing protesters. What a petty complaint! I much prefer to debate issues and policies that effect our future prosperity.

    • Tony Edward Dockery

      The only thing this govenor is doing is lining his campaign chest with more cash….He actually thinks he is going to be a second term governor lol…..Boy is he in for a surprise…He better get all his goodies while he can…We dont have to paint the govenor anything we already know what he is…

  6. Ghost of Reagan

    My favorite Thweets: Saying Obamacare was starving him and then bragging about his mean tender loin.

  7. James

    Great observations, Thomas. McCrory continues to lurch along, trying to be the kind of tough guy you’d want to have a beer with. How he manages to fail at every turn is beyond me.

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