Gov. Martin O’Malley ventures from his Annapolis office into hostile Reddit-land via laptop in a futile attempt to earn hip Internet cred for his nascent presidential cam- paign, as his ill-advised ‘AMA’ on Reddit bites the dust. (Photo/O’Malley Twitter feed)
HIS ONLINE OFFER ‘ASK ME ANYTHING’
IN THE END PRODUCES NOTHING,
SO REPORT THE REDDITORS
The most horrendous ‘AMA’ ever!
THE GOVERNOR DODGES QUESTIONS
By Alan Z. Forman
“The man will not answer the questions that the majority of people want [him to address]. This is what we’ve come to expect from our ‘leaders.’”
So complained “Redditor ‘The Tenth State’” at the end of the initial segment of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s eight-and-a-half-hour venture Monday into the uncharted waters of popular social-networking service Reddit, where registered community members submit content and evaluate that which is submitted by fellow users.
By all accounts it was a disaster for the Maryland governor cum presidential aspirant.
“After this ‘AMA’ I have no respect for Gov. O’Malley as a politician or honest deliberator,” said a Redditor calling himself “horatiooo.”
(An ‘AMA’ is an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session.)
“[H]e’s a s**tty governor and what limited success he has had in running his state is mostly due to small business owners who were lucky enough to open their doors to a growing state economy which he had nothing to do with,” added Redditor “allthe_gundams.”
“Basically he got lucky since a bunch of nouveau riche people moved into the state to open up shop.”
A Redditor identified as “AmateurHero” however had sympathy for the governor:
“This is f**king brutal,” AmateurHero said. “Every answer that he does give gets ripped apart by the constituents.
“It’s a minefield out here.”
