<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[From Tweet To&nbsp;Tsunami]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger">@JRubinBlogger</a> Wendy Davis conducts pointless filibuster and she is a hero of Left. Cruz stands for something and GOP establishment sneers.</p>
<p>— Chad Seiter (@AppleCiderKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/AppleCiderKY/statuses/382703643138334720">September 25, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Kevin Drum <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/tweet-meme-wendy-davis-ted-cruz-filibuster">traced </a>one of this week&#8217;s <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/5-reasons-the-media-is-covering-ted-cruzs-filibuster-differently-than-wendy-davis-and-rand-paul/279981/">biggest memes</a> &#8211; &#8220;the media is hopelessly biased because it treated Wendy Davis’ abortion filibuster more sympathetically than Ted Cruz&#8217;s kinda-buster on Obamacare&#8221; &#8211; to its source:</p>
<blockquote><p>A guy in Kentucky with 187 followers on Twitter [responding to Jennifer Rubin] got retweeted by Laura Ingraham, and by the next morning his tweet had morphed into a media bias meme that went viral. Congratulations, Chad! You won the Internet today. Isn’t social media remarkable?</p></blockquote>
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