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Thread: Ben Swann currently BARELY in FIRST place for a Shorty Award

  1. 01-23-2013, 01:36 PM #1
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    Ben Swann currently BARELY in FIRST place for a Shorty Award

    If you have a twitter, then you know what to do, so get to it! I voted for him yesterday, and he had 93 votes, IIRC. He's now at 95, meaning he's only gotten two votes since!

    The #Journalist Shorty Award
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    You know we can beat prog presstitutes no. 1 and 2!:

    Amber Lyon: 230 votes in journalist

    Tim Pool: 139 votes in journalist

    Ben Swann: 95 votes in journalist     (and three votes in the fashion category! He is a snappy dresser.)

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    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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  3. 01-23-2013, 01:37 PM #2
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    Vote him up! I'll tweet it too!

    His twitter name is @Fox19BenSwann - you need that to nominate him! and you have to say WHY he should win!
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    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

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    retweet this! https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...67918093139968
    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

    "Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." -Edward Snowden
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    I think people stopped because they weren't validating his account for the LONGEST time....so votes weren't counting.
    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by FSP-Rebel View Post
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    Same here.
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  11. 01-23-2013, 02:55 PM #9
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    It is updating slowly maybe? It only says 96 now.....
    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

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    It must be. He's up to 98 now (No. 1 got one more vote).

    Remember!:

    Vote with a tweet. Votes must have a reason after "because..." or they won't count!
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    Last edited by Lucille; 01-23-2013 at 05:14 PM.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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    Number 1 might be ok, she just is just not Ben. I understand she goes after NDAA at least. So I wouldn't call her names unless I knew her, although I want to beat her vote count, obviously.
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    Oh her! She's not so bad. She's the one who blew the whistle on CNN's censorship too.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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    Remember the final award is given, based not just on the vote, but also based on other factors as well.
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    Bump for more votes!!
    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by BSU kid View Post
    Remember the final award is given, based not just on the vote, but also based on other factors as well.
    Yeah, and his account wasn't verified for the longest time, we have to make up ground. Here are the qualifications, though, and I think he is pretty good with social media:
    The winner will be selected based upon the number of nominations they’ve received, the impact and creativity of their tweets, and the level of innovation in their use of social media as judged by the Shorty Awards Real-Time Academy. Only those who have been verified as a journalist by Muck Rack are eligible for this Award.
    Or is it saying WE have to be innovative in our nomination tweets? I think I'll find that clip of him interviewing Obama about NDAA and tweet it with a nomination.....
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    OK, I tweeted another nomination using Ben Swann's Obama interview where he asked about NDAA FIRST OF ANYONE, and about the Kill list etc. Obama was expecting a low key 'local paper' interview, I suspect.

    https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...65174829985792
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    Quote Originally Posted by sailingaway View Post
    OK, I tweeted another nomination using Ben Swann's Obama interview where he asked about NDAA FIRST OF ANYONE, and about the Kill list etc. Obama was expecting a low key 'local paper' interview, I suspect.

    https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...65174829985792
    Ben Swann interviewed Obama on his secret kill list? Where tf was I when all this happened? +rep for the mention. I'm off to see the epicness that is sure to happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sailingaway View Post
    retweet this! https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...67918093139968
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    Lyon: 234
    Pool: 144
    Swann: 134

    I find it impossible to believe that we can't scrape up another 100 or so lousy votes to get him to tie for 1st!
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    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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    Nice, comments carry over to front page articles now.
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    OK, when I click the link I see Ben in third place with one MORE vote than the guy in second. Can we get a few more votes here? Maybe they update ranking periodically...
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    I bumped him up past 2nd place, but he's still in third.
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    Who has an account on Daily Paul and can get this posted there? There is no way Swann shouldn't be winning.
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    +rep, LE!

    He's now in 2nd with 147 votes.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LibertyEagle View Post
    Who has an account on Daily Paul and can get this posted there? There is no way Swann shouldn't be winning.


    I posted it and Nystrom even tweeted it out. A bunch of people are retweeting my tweet, but they have to vote for him themselves through the link for it to count....
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    He's in 2nd place right now
    1st Amber Lyon 234 votes in #journalism
    2nd Ben Swann 156 votes in #journalism
    3rd Tim Pool 134 votes in #journalism
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