And all the different absurdists and satirists out there. "You know, the more and more with the CBS Google Trends ticker, as you get the media and politicians trying to plug into this still new territory of social media, you're only going to see more and more times when that kind of old-school thinking clashes with all sorts of new media. "I think this is just one iteration of a phenomenon that's going to continue," he said. There we go /LtyW9ivV6I- lindsey February 9, 2016įor LaMagna, who led the charge to get Cruz/Zodiac trending during the CBS GOP debate, it was all about the worlds of politics and social media colliding. and there's none of that with him at all. "It seems to be something that has always been true of presidential candidates, people say 'I wanna have a beer with this guy.'. Monahan said that Cruz has a likeability problem. I think it just sort of crystallized for me that there's something about this guy that really kind of is off-putting to people." Monahan added, "and then there was a protester in one of the Iowa rallies that stood in the back and yelled 'Ted Cruz looks weird' a bunch of times. The column never pointed to any scientific reason and its author concluded he was "at a loss to verbalize what unsettles me." It's important to point out that was one person's take in one column, and not accepted science. "There was something about the fact that there was a neurologist that went on the air or did an interview that said there's a neurological reason why Ted Cruz's face seems strange," Monahan said. Monahan cited a column that went viral last month in which a professor of neurology attempted to explain why "Ted Cruz's Facial Expression Makes Me Uneasy." I'm just asking questions /kh98UCekTv- Patrick Monahan February 22, 2016 I just tweeted out: 'Hey everybody should Google 'Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac killer?' and see if we can hit the ticker on there.'" "But while I'm watching this, I'm like well if it's showing what the Google Trends are, what's to stop somebody from making that trend. "It wasn't going to help anybody get informed," LaMagna, who is an Independent supporting Bernie Sanders, said. What are people Googling about the candidates? It was stuff like 'How tall is Jeb Bush?' Stuff like that. the Google Trends ticker along the bottom of the screen, kind of a way to make things more interactive. "I didn't really engage with it too much up until the CBS GOP debate, the most recent one," Nathan LaMagna, one person who helped make that happen, told NPR. During a recent GOP presidential debate on CBS, comedians behind the Cruz/Zodiac meme were determined to make it trend. WOW! /skTG39kLDU- lindsey February 14, 2016
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