As Twitchy reported yesterday, followers of “Family Feud” suddenly found themselves in the middle of a political feud, when a tweet from the game show’s official Twitter account urged Speaker John Boehner to end the Tea Party shutdown and “stop letting extremists sabotage our economy.”
Those are pretty strong words from a game show, but they’re not exactly original. That exact sentiment has been making the rounds for a couple of days, and it seems that “eggs” — Twitter accounts with very few tweets, and usually no followers — are the most “upset” over the Tea Party’s extremism.
We’ve seen that phenomenon before, when an army of eggs was demanding a vote on expanded background checks for guns.
But a game show? After yesterday’s backlash and some internal investigation, it seems that the folks at “Family Feud” have been … hacked! The original tweet has since been deleted, but hacking is a serious charge, and now we’re curious: was the show really hacked-hacked, or was it Anthony Weiner hacked?
Survey says: dubious. “@FamilyFeud: Our account was hacked. Earlier post was not from the show. We apologize for it and took it down.”
— Judge Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) October 6, 2013
@FamilyFeud a likely story.
— Evil or Stupid? (@EvilorStupid) October 6, 2013
@FamilyFeud Really? Not buying it! Proof needed. Sounds like PR spin. Who hacked it?
— Chance (@TheSlimChance) October 6, 2013
https://twitter.com/Come2MyRescue/status/386909135482003456
. @FamilyFeud i was hacked is the new "I was drunk"
— Steve (@WasteLandArcher) October 6, 2013
@MyCoatIsBrown hmmm well I guess someone WAS drunk…er um I mean hacked.
— Dede (@teh_Dede) October 6, 2013
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/386923753260597248
Did you file a police report? @FamilyFeud Our account was hacked. Earlier post was not from the show. We apologize for it and took it down.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 6, 2013
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/386924103271055360
@amylutz4 @FamilyFeud My guess is whoever runs the account thought they were tweeting from their personal account.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 6, 2013
https://twitter.com/amylutz4/status/386928145569288192
But … they just admitted they were hacked!
.@FamilyFeud Survey SAYS: BULLSH*T
— Harriet Baldwin Text Trump 88022 (@HarrietBaldwin) October 6, 2013
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