Wow. ABC/Yahoo story links to DU thread.

Followed Yahoo main page link to ABC/Yahoo story on NASA mohawk guy. and found a link within the article leads to a DU thread (a thread with few replies).

Sixth paragraph down, the word "meme" is a link, which leads to the DU post.

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First came the online meme, the Tumblr and then the thousands of new followers to his @tweetsoutloud Twitter account, where he describes himself as "Flight director on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission. Exercise fiend. Mediocre shortstop."

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/nasas-mohawk-guy-gets-galaxy-marriage-proposals-191058476--abc-news-topstories.html

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ABC/Yahoo story linking to DU. Isn't that a big deal?

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
Wow. ABC/Yahoo story links to DU thread. (Original post)	Skip Intro	Aug 2012	OP
DU is newsworthy.	RedStateLiberal	Aug 2012	#1
I think that is freaking fantastic	dballance	Aug 2012	#2
And we have to keep repeating it	mick063	Aug 2012	#3
Can we still vote to hide the OP?	jberryhill	Aug 2012	#4
Love it! nt	Mojorabbit	Aug 2012	#5
That IS really cool.	UnrepentantLiberal	Aug 2012	#6
Props to Poll_Blind and his OP they linked to	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#7
Heh heh, nice! I didn't realize this till someone PM'd me about it this morning.	Poll_Blind	Aug 2012	#8
Teecher's pet!!!	CatWoman	Aug 2012	#10
That's because DU is the best!	tallahasseedem	Aug 2012	#9
Kick for anyone who might have missed it.	Skip Intro	Aug 2012	#11

Response to Skip Intro (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:54 AM

RedStateLiberal (1,374 posts)

1. DU is newsworthy.

At least when it comes to Internet memes according to Yahoo.

Cool find!

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Response to Skip Intro (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:02 AM

dballance (3,767 posts)

2. I think that is freaking fantastic

I Believe there are hundreds of thousands of people here on DU and we do our best to tell relevant stories. Some times we express an opinion that pisses other people off. That is a good thing.

Only by having one's beliefs challenged do I believe people grow and learn.

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Response to dballance (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:07 AM

mick063 (1,082 posts)

3. And we have to keep repeating it

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Because we all know how steep the Teabillie learning curve is. It doesn't help that they have been hypnotized into Lemming trauma by Fox News.

Intelligent debate to stimulate new ideas and thinking?

You gotta be kidding me.

Nothing can penetrate the hatred for anything "Obama" these people have. These folks parrot Fox News and intellectual discourse is the furthest thing from their mind. They elect Congressmen that replicate their thinking which means.....no room for compromise from the standard Fox line.

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Response to Skip Intro (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:09 AM

jberryhill (29,904 posts)