Hey, here is a fucking terrible idea: take an angry old publicity whore who has decided that hiring an intern to fart out cheap 140-character anecdotes on a three-year-old Interwebs Technology is the route back to political glory, and have that person do an interview with George Stephanopoulos. On Twitter. [George's Bottom Line]
McCain-Stephanopoulos ‘Twitterview’ Sure To Be Wretched
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140 characters are too many for the subject.
Everyone knows that when you achieve 10,000 followers you automatically become President of the Internets. GOOD MOVE, Walnuts.
I bet Palin’s wishing she’d thought of that. What could go wrong with only 140 characters per answer?
Also, too, in what respect? gotcha journalism pallin’ around with terrist oops out of space.
‘Back in my day when you twittered someone you got married.’
…who in the hell would want to get twittered by WALNUTS! Even Cindy isn’t interested!
“Fucking terrible idea” should be added as a tag.
What’s next for John McCain, an earring, a tramp-stamp tattoo, covering his briefcase with Nickelback stickers? (He’s such a maverick!)
…Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! = 140 characters
Further proof that not only has Twitter jumped the shark, but it went back to jump it again only to be eaten whole by the shark.
And you wonder why everybody gets their news form the web these days.
This is worse than that time your grandma joined myspace.
#StupidIdeas
Senator McCain has finally settled out at his own level after finding that the presidency was too big a stretch. Barking about earmarks and playing with his new game is fully engaging his abilities.
“I tweeted” and “Twitter me” sound so nasty.
I will never forget the interview where George was interviewing some Bush flunkie or other who didn’t know the difference between Afghanistan and Pakistan, or something like that, OK, so I forgot a few little details, I smoke a lot of weed, but the guy made the same fucking stupid mistake about 3 or 4 times and Shlepanopolous never caught it.
This is the world’s dumbest reporter interviewing the world’s most irrelevant politician on the world’s shallowest medium.
I like Scarab’s comment- maybe the winning tweet from Mr. Mc could be tattooed on his neck. Some plaid bermuda shorts and white socks with his sandals might improve his dowdy senate get-up. If we had only voted this guy in we wouldn’t be stuck with a blingless president. oh well.
[re=264973]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Hahhahahaheeeeeeeeennnngggghhhh!
Can’t we just get McCain a Nintendo DS and a copy of Mario Kart and put him in a corner for the next 4 years?
Walnuts will just use Morse code to type his responses, like when he crashed his plane(s).
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“I tweeted” sounds like something that should leave skidmarks.
You’re using too many letters. It isn’t “twitter”. It’s “twit”.
[re=264980]gurukalehuru[/re]: RT @gurukalehuru
Will somebody please fucking kill Twitter and all the technophilic hipster twats who unleashed this latest dumbness into mainstream consumption?
[re=264980]gurukalehuru[/re]: Please, Snuffleupagus is not the world’s dumbest reporter. He’s the world’s dumbest political hack.
[re=264999]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: Hahaha FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/SHORTSandPANTS/
[re=264997]Min[/re]: See, that’s what I was thinking. If it were called “Twit”, it would be the most appropriately named site on this whole intertubes thingy.
I have a short question for George to ask him!
“Hey John, how does Hopey’s ass taste?”
Twitter me this, twitter me that, who’s afraid of a big black bat?
Walnuts! does realize the root word of Twitter is “twit,” doesn’t he?
Maybe he thinks it’s “Titter.”
[re=265015]tootsieroll[/re]: Walnuts hasn’t had taste buds since he was 97 year’s old.
[re=264975]NoWireHangers[/re]: ” your grandma joined myspace.”
I use facebook, young lady.
[re=264980]gurukalehuru[/re]: You win.
Walnuts! Why doesn’t he fucking retire already? I know Cindy probably doesn’t want him in the same time zone as her, but they have 7 houses. I’m sure somewhere Wal-Mart needs an old cranky greeter to chase after people who make their door alarms go off.
[re=265011]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I WILL SLANDER YOU ON YOUR OWN TWITTER
So this is basically gonna be an AIM conversation. Are they gonna read it to us on the teevee?
GREAT MOMENTS IN FAIL:
After the last election the RNC got together and said, “We as a party look out of touch. No matter what new bullshit technology comes along next, we need to jump on it first and make it our own. That will make us appear hip.”
Two months earlier and the GOP would all be rocking a Storytime Elmo.
What’s next for Walnuts- publishing his doodles?
So will this be twit-per-view, or pay-per-twit?
I can pretty much write this whole discussion right now
Steph: blah…blah…blah….earmarks
McCain: earmarks…blah…blah blah..earmarks
Steph: earmarks…earmarks..blah…blah…blah…earmarks
McCain: EARMARKS!
[re=264963]TGY[/re]: “@georgestephanopoulous” would fill enough space.
[re=265042]Gallowglass[/re]: And if they did, could you tell the difference between that and a “normal” Steph’lous interview?
I guess we shouldn’t knock it- I heard it is saving his marriage, now that Cindy is allowing him to tweet her.
Twitter is sort of the perfect Republican medium. It lends itself to sound bites, bumper stickers, slogoneering and namecalling, while covering up a lot of sloppy grammar. Watch for an 18-wheeler full of ALL CAPS AND EXCLAIMATION MARKS to unload at Walnuts’ offices.
!!11!!!EARMARKS!!!!11!!1GAYS!!11!!!TAXES11!!!SOCIALIST!!!1
Kinda like that?
[re=265011]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Hahahahahahahah. Shorts found a way to be boring!
This was unexpected!
Will Walnuts’ gorilla rape joke fit in 140 characters?
I’m a pretty inquisitive guy but I can’t bring myself to figure out what the hell Twitter is. If it’s something old white Republicans obsess about I’m not interested.
Ah, you would have to completely misunderstand the concept behind Twitter to try and conduct an interview on it, wouldn’t you? It’s like writing a novel on a stock ticker.
[re=265011]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Twitter whore!! (I’m following you, since the last time you got booted which was never explained, probably for good reason.)
[re=265003]FMA[/re]: If you don’t consider anyone employed by Murdoch to be a reporter, maybe he could be both!
Sorry, I am late to the party.
The comments @ http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/03/twitterview-wit.html
are un-moderated…. I am sure the masses would appreciate your humor there.
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