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Stephanopoulos’s Twitter Misunderstanding

February 24, 2009

“The bass not served w cannabis! ‘Pot’ short for potato!” read an urgent tweet minutes ago from ABC News’s George Stephanopolous regarding the menu served at the Twittered twelve minutes prior (emphasis mine):

WH menu: lobster bisque w beignets, seared Virginia bass w leeks and pot, pound cake w fruit compote and lemon sorbet was one of several journalists who lunched with President Obama today.

And, for additional color, Stephanopoulous’s pre– and post-presidential-lunch tweets:

Cab to WH for traditional anchor lunch pre-SOU speech. 1st w Obama Food always outstanding Opp to see POTUS upclose always instructive

Walking from lunch w POTUS Terrific sense of what Obama thinking and feeling. Clearly relishes job–esp tough decisions more tk

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.