They Said It Couldn’t Be Done . . .

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. . . which is the kind of double-dog-dare-ya thing you should never say to me. Ladies and gentlemen, the Tweet Heard ‘Round the World:

My response was appropriately dignified:

How long has this been my goal? Remember, this all started when Alyssa Milano re-Tweeted a post by Mickey Kaus last October. At that time, she had more than 300,000 followers — she’s now got more than 1 million — and everybody said it would never happen.

Not only was she a famous Hollywood celebrity but, as I explained at The American Spectator:

Some of my friends say that Alyssa is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. . . . Surely, however, she would not allow mere politics to prejudice her Twitter habits.

Whenever you set out to achieve great things, you will immediately be told that it can’t be done. And if you listen to the naysayers, you’ll never achieve anything. Had I heeded the voices of discouragement– “Ah, she’s just another liberal Hollywood bimbo” — this never would have happened.

Fortune favors the bold. Those who dare, do.

Or, as my father often told me, “Son, ‘can’t’ never could.”

In a follow-up Tweet, Alyssa paid tribute to my persistence:

Yeah. You can ask Mrs. Other McCain about that.

Many thanks are due. Dan Collins of Piece of Work in Progress was an early supporter of the “Just One Tweet, Alyssa” campaign, and many others joined in. For nearly a year, it was a running joke — until it became a reality.

So thank you, Alyssa Milano.

And all you people who said it would never happen?

Hit the freaking tip jar!

87 comments

  10. The best revenge of all is living well…

    Damn you RSM. I tried to destroy you, yet you get stronger? I feel like the Grinch when he is ready to toss all the Who’s stuff off Mount Crumpet.

  23. If Alyssa Milano will re-tweet Stacy, then maybe miracles do occur. I now expect to see a Christine O’Donnell victory in November. . .

  30. Maybe she is a conservative?

    I hesitate to attribute any poliitcal significance to this. At the same time, Andrew Breitbart has been telling me for three years about the existence of “underground conservatives” in Hollywood. It’s very difficult for people who work in the entertainment industry to dissent from the prevailing leftist orthodoxy. Even if they can still work, being identified as conservative in Hollywood generally means you never get considered for an Emmy or an Oscar.

    We can look at Alyssa Milano’s biography and judge the likelihood of her being, if not ideologically conservative, at least not a fanatical leftist like Sean Penn or Margaret Cho:

    1. She is Italian and thus, quite likely, raised Catholic.

    2. She is married and has a wholesome reputation. You don’t see tabloid photos of her drunk in some disco with an entourage of lowlifes.

    3. She’s a Dodgers fan, and baseball is an all-American sort of sport.

    4. I don’t recall her ever going on TV ranting about Halliburton causing the Iraq war or claiming that 9/11 was an “inside job.”

    By Hollywood standards, then, Alyssa Milano is at least moderate in her politics. Her main “cause” right now is Haitian relief, which anyone can support. So unless and until Alyssa says otherwise, I’m going to assume that she has small tattoo of Ronald Reagan someplace the cameras never see.

  32. Congratulations, Stacy! 🙂

    Steve in TN: that’s Stacy’s fault for settingh is ambitions too low. He just wanted Alyssa to hit a button and re-tweet; he didn’t think that she would go so far as to craft her own, less-than-140-character missive to him. :p

  39. OMG, say it ain’t so. You won’t be worth a plug nickel anymore.

    Thanks, Alyssa Milano, for putting Stacy out of his misery. And again I say to all the pessemists out there, miracles happen.

  42. Wow, to think I doubted you and that you were merely trying to drum up web traffic through prurient means. Maybe Alyssa has stock in Technorati or, better yet, is coming out with a new series about blogger obsession! No better case study exists than rsmccain.

  43. Stacy wrote: Would I be correct in guessing that we’ll see an “Alyssa Milano Through the Years” retrospective as Rule 5 entry from Camp of the Saints?

    You know me soooo well.

  46. Timing is everything in comedy
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    Received the sweetest terrestrial tweet: @Alyssa_Milano @rsmccain You’re tenacious. Goodnight. Robert. x0 Bon nuit. Sans sommeil dans le Maryland. Fedora salut xxx0.

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