Here’s Jared Schmeck’s posted YouTube video of his call to Joe and Jill Biden:
Note that he closes a very friendly conversation with “let’s go Brandon” which award winning journalist Tim O’Brien describes is like telling the following to the president in this tweet:
This is what Rep. Eric Swalwell tweeted:
#JaredSchmeck is trending on Twitter (here) and as one would expect there are lots of #JaredSchmuck tweets.
The story was widely covered everywhere form The Oregonian to The Guardian.
I checked to see if he already had a Wikipedia page. He didn’t. I was curious whether the man who by chance had his call on the NORAD Santa Line get answered by President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden only to close his call by saying “let’s go Brandon” and when this came out saying it was meant as a joke made it to the Wikipedia entry for the town her lives in.
His name wasn’t there under the Wikipedia page listing “Notable People” from Central Point, Oregon:
- Jason Atkinson, Oregon State Senator and 2006/2010 gubernatorial candidate
- Eugene Bennett, fine artist.
- Amy Denson, professional basketball player.
- Lisa Franchetti, United States Navy Vice Admiral.
- Dean Hartgraves, major league baseball pitcher.
- Clayton Klein, a former Oregon State Representative
- Bryce Peila, football player who played for the Portland Steel of the Arena Football League
- Dennis Richardson, former Oregon Secretary of State
- Basil Wolverton, comic book artist, Marvel & Mad magazine.
I’ve edited three or four Wikipedia pages to make them current but this is not a simple thing to do because you need to code everything in HTML and of course document what you add with sources. Otherwise I might have done it myself.
I never heard of any of the notable people from the city of Central Point. If making the news internationally is a criteria for being on this list perhaps he should be included. In fact, perhaps he should have an entry of his own.
What do you think?