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McCain-Stephanopoulos ‘Twitterview’ Sure To Be Wretched

NOM NOM NOMHey, 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]


1:17 PM on Fri March 13 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. 140 characters are too many for the subject.

  2. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:27 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Everyone knows that when you achieve 10,000 followers you automatically become President of the Internets. GOOD MOVE, Walnuts.

  3. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 1:28 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  4. Sussemilch says at 1:30 pm, March 13th, 2009

    ‘Back in my day when you twittered someone you got married.’

  5. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:30 pm, March 13th, 2009

    …who in the hell would want to get twittered by WALNUTS! Even Cindy isn’t interested!

  6. Delicious says at 1:32 pm, March 13th, 2009

    “Fucking terrible idea” should be added as a tag.

  7. Scarab says at 1:32 pm, March 13th, 2009

    What’s next for John McCain, an earring, a tramp-stamp tattoo, covering his briefcase with Nickelback stickers? (He’s such a maverick!)

  8. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:33 pm, March 13th, 2009

    …Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! = 140 characters

  9. Hooray For Anything says at 1:33 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  10. NoWireHangers says at 1:34 pm, March 13th, 2009

    This is worse than that time your grandma joined myspace.

  11. Keram2 says at 1:34 pm, March 13th, 2009

    #StupidIdeas

  12. what tha? says at 1:35 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  13. Itsjustme says at 1:35 pm, March 13th, 2009

    “I tweeted” and “Twitter me” sound so nasty.

  14. gurukalehuru says at 1:37 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  15. what tha? says at 1:38 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  16. freakishlystrong says at 1:39 pm, March 13th, 2009

    AngryBlakGuy: Hahhahahaheeeeeeeeennnngggghhhh!

  17. Serolf Divad says at 1:39 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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?

  18. Lucas Burch says at 1:41 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Walnuts will just use Morse code to type his responses, like when he crashed his plane(s).

    … — …

  19. Country Club Jihadi says at 1:43 pm, March 13th, 2009

    “I tweeted” sounds like something that should leave skidmarks.

  20. You’re using too many letters. It isn’t “twitter”. It’s “twit”.

  21. Delicious says at 1:46 pm, March 13th, 2009

    gurukalehuru: RT @gurukalehuru

  22. Anonymous Office Zombie says at 1:46 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Will somebody please fucking kill Twitter and all the technophilic hipster twats who unleashed this latest dumbness into mainstream consumption?

  23. gurukalehuru: Please, Snuffleupagus is not the world’s dumbest reporter. He’s the world’s dumbest political hack.

  24. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:54 pm, March 13th, 2009
  25. masterdebater says at 1:54 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Min: 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.

  26. tootsieroll says at 1:55 pm, March 13th, 2009

    I have a short question for George to ask him!

    “Hey John, how does Hopey’s ass taste?”

  27. CivicHoliday says at 1:57 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Twitter me this, twitter me that, who’s afraid of a big black bat?

  28. CaliforniaMike says at 1:57 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Walnuts! does realize the root word of Twitter is “twit,” doesn’t he?

    Maybe he thinks it’s “Titter.”

  29. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:02 pm, March 13th, 2009

    tootsieroll: Walnuts hasn’t had taste buds since he was 97 year’s old.

  30. DustBowlBlues says at 2:07 pm, March 13th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: ” your grandma joined myspace.”

    I use facebook, young lady.

  31. DustBowlBlues says at 2:08 pm, March 13th, 2009

    gurukalehuru: You win.

  32. Texan Bulldoggette says at 2:09 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  33. JeffGoldblum says at 2:09 pm, March 13th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: I WILL SLANDER YOU ON YOUR OWN TWITTER

  34. Gallowglass says at 2:09 pm, March 13th, 2009

    So this is basically gonna be an AIM conversation. Are they gonna read it to us on the teevee?

  35. Scarab says at 2:10 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  36. what tha? says at 2:14 pm, March 13th, 2009

    What’s next for Walnuts- publishing his doodles?

  37. So will this be twit-per-view, or pay-per-twit?

  38. Hooray For Anything says at 2:20 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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!

  39. Teds Famous Kickin Chicken says at 2:21 pm, March 13th, 2009

    TGY: “@georgestephanopoulous” would fill enough space.

  40. V572625694 says at 2:21 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Gallowglass: And if they did, could you tell the difference between that and a “normal” Steph’lous interview?

  41. what tha? says at 2:31 pm, March 13th, 2009

    I guess we shouldn’t knock it- I heard it is saving his marriage, now that Cindy is allowing him to tweet her.

  42. WadISay says at 2:36 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  43. MarieDeGournay says at 2:49 pm, March 13th, 2009

    !!11!!!EARMARKS!!!!11!!1GAYS!!11!!!TAXES11!!!SOCIALIST!!!1

    Kinda like that?

  44. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:48 pm, March 13th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: Hahahahahahahah. Shorts found a way to be boring!

    This was unexpected!

  45. Human-Animal Hybrid says at 4:46 pm, March 13th, 2009

    Will Walnuts’ gorilla rape joke fit in 140 characters?

  46. Capricatony says at 5:29 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  47. Tommmcatt says at 7:16 pm, March 13th, 2009

    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.

  48. hobospacejungle says at 7:58 pm, March 13th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: Twitter whore!! (I’m following you, since the last time you got booted which was never explained, probably for good reason.)

  49. OzoneTom says at 9:20 pm, March 13th, 2009

    FMA: If you don’t consider anyone employed by Murdoch to be a reporter, maybe he could be both!

  50. tomjones says at 4:22 pm, March 14th, 2009

    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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