Wonkette
- OBAMA TO TALK IRAN, MAYBE, LATER: Barack Obama is scheduled to hold a press conference with Italy’s leathery clown king, Silvio Berlusconi, at 5 p.m. today, to discuss Stuff. In other words, a bunch of reporters will harass him about Iran. His options are to either declare war on Iran or allow John McCain and Andrew Sullivan to do it themselves, on Twitter. [Swampland]
Surely, he will have some comment on momentous topics such as Berlusconi’s supposed romance with an underage girl? Or perhaps I should stop calling you Shirley.
God, I hope they do the press conference during a naked pool party.
Internally valid: Berlusconi in the buff? Gahhhhh!
Or he could just declare war on John McCain and Andrew Sullivan.
You know what I farking hate whenever people use Twitter to communicate about a breaking news event (Iran, or the Mumbai attacks, or whatever)? The fact that 80% of the “tweets” are about how fucking awesome twitter is and how it’s so cool that twitter is being used to cover breaking news. I’d like Twitter if there weren’t so much masturbation about twitter.
Hey, she’s 18 already, I think. LEAVE SILVIO ALONE…LEAVE HIM ALONE!!
A better solution to the mess in Iran is open our borders to all their women who uniformly seem to be extremely hot and look great in green. Leave the whole country to the menfolk to beat their chests and drop dead leaders out of coffins. We’ll take the wimmins.
Also, I masturbated using green lotion today to support Iran’s hot chicks in green. And I ate a lot of artificially-colored frozen treats yesterday so my poop was green to protest the Iranian government stealing the election. I also mixed the results of both activities to support Guns ‘n’ Ammo.
hobospacejunkie: That is either the goofiest plan for Middle East domination that I have ever heard, or the most brilliant.
jagorev: Iranian hardcore twitterers are all about the events beign covered. The only time the Twitter the medium became Twitter the message was when they realized it was going to be shut down for maintenance today for an hour and a half.
jagorev: What you are describing is how CNN goes about discussing things. They’re all like “Aren’t we awesome for occasionally checking Twitter! Yey, twitter! Yey us! We are not old and uncool - we are young and with it!” Twitter itself is too busy passing around proxy servers for Iran, taking down sites of the clerics and relaying pictures/videos of people being beaten/killed.
Barry! Give a shout out to those Iranian College Students, ya hear?
If you cant find your trucknutz for the kids, at least give ‘em a tweet in support.
I just want to say that the sobriquet “leathery clown king” is worthy of the glory days of Spy magazine. (”Short-fingered vulgarian,” “tiny Scientologist-actor” — and hey, those guys are still around, too!)