Political “news” these days is now mostly just whatever clever/bizarre/idiot thing ends up on the Twitter after a bored Washington aide takes another dump over a computer keyboard and a few of the keys including the “enter” button somehow get pressed, so let’s check in to see where that’s getting us as a nation: oh look, the White House is holding Twitter “office hours” to discuss the debt ceiling, which means hitting a few softballs lobbed over the plate from users asking questions of the “but didn’t George W. Bush do the exact same thing in office without fuss?” variety. One brave Twitter critic pointed out this was totally boring, so the White House shot back a reply with the Internet’s favorite outdated meme of death, the rickroll.
Is it funny? Is it appropriate? Should user @wiggsd be sent to Abu Ghraib for calling the White House boring? Isn’t that why those other guys were being stored there? Or does Bradley Manning want some company, maybe, hmmm? Could a dead possum also do the job of running the White House Twitter feed? DISCUSS.
Oh well, still better than having your Truck Nutz taken away. [NY Daily News]
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"Could a dead possum also do the job of running the White House Twitter feed?"
I dunno, the Palins are a bunch of worn out beavers and they manage to rule the Twitterdome.
Who? (too soon?)
oh much much too soon.
Not soon enough for some of us…
"Worn out beavers" ftw.
Ooh, a Rick Roll. How very 2007.
I'm happy they leapt ahead 15 years in such a short time.
2007 BCE.
Gov. Christie from NJ is in hospital with SOB.
What, wait, what now? Tells me, this better not be a joke, don't be getting a fools hopes up like that.
Yes, I heard he got SOB when he tripped over one of his rolls.
More like walking up two stairs (not flights of stairs.)
No joke. Short article on Get the latest updates at NorthJersey.com
Just heard he has breathing problems…no shit , so when your fucking enormous chin(s) loll onto your fucking moobs, sometimes it affects your breathing, who knew?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110728_Christ...
"[Christie] was taken to the hospital by motorcade."
Tractor trailer, is more like it.
Complete with "wide load" flags a-flying. Bada bump.
I believe in basketball what you did there is known as "a bunny."
But did said motorcade proudly display Trucknutz?
Government funded helicopter.
Oh wait, it's a medical emergency, not a kid's softball game.
What a depressing story. I had high hopes up until his spokesman's statement. I'd rather hear his spokesman quote Bones McCoy: "He's Dead, Jim."
Not to despair, for two years one of my journalist friends states that when Michael Drewniak speaks no one believes him.
good thing he's got that gov't funded helicoptor to fly him around for gov't funded health care.
Awwwww…
Ohh, shortness of breath. Thats crippling, to a professional blowhard.
Now, doctors are also in the hospital with an SOB.
For a moment I thought you meant Same Old Bullshit, until I googled it…OK, governor, get well soon so I can go back to making fun of you…
The response I was expecting was; Who?
Why do I keep seeing that as SLOB?
He's just trying to top Michel Bachmann's headaches.
BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin has offered her services as V.P. candidate for a Chris Christie Presidential run.
The first presidential ticket to loose and election before Labor Day.
BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin has just quit as Chris Christie's V.P. candidate.
I love how they put out there almost instantly that he has a history of asthma. So, that's what they are calling angina, these days?
Symptom, or cause of our doom?
Isn’t that why those other guys were being stored there?
Allegedly. Then when it turned out they were referring to boring holes into the house at the end of the road for plumbing, they were sent to another secret CIA torture prison forever.
Because letting them go would embarrass high-ranking officials who wish to remain unnamed for this story.
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A lemonparty link would have been more appropriate.
This is what happens when you put new tech into old hands.
I could see Jay Carney doing it.
Shoulda linked to some porn. That's exciting.
… and not too dry.
Sorry, after nearly 15 years of the internets, even porn is boring.
Now that's jaded!
Well, now some poor schlub in the WH press office will lose their job. Too bad; they replied to the inquiry with exactly the right degree of solemnity.
I'm still trying to memeify the jelly roll.
Do you have the set of his Library of Congress recordings? Amazing stuff – some of which is downright nasty.
Or the Son House cover of the White Stripes' "Death Letter."
Thanks for that! Nice stuff. Oh, and if you like stride piano, Art Hodes is terrific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgavxLHG2cM
does Bradley Manning want some company, maybe
well… when complaining about boredom is outlawed… only outlaws will be outspokenly bored, apparently, while they anticipate knuckle-tapping tired-inspired message codes with neighboring mortal offenders on the walls of isolation cells.
ARIE, YE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH!
Reason #111,521 why I don't, nor will ever use Twatter.
Hear, hear!
Every time you say that, Ashton Kutcher drops his blackberry.
Oh goodie.
Reason #111,521 why I don't, nor will ever use Twatter. Reason #111,521 why I don't, nor will ever use Twatter. Reason #111,521 why I don't, nor will ever use Twatter.
Did it work?
You know, I don't know a single person that claims to use twitter, but, then again, I'm over 13.
Online acquaintances that use Twitter get down right defensive when you point out to them that adults don't tweet.
@wiggsd is lucky. I'd have sent the Secret Service over to his house to smack him upside the head for belaboring the obvious.
That's the Bull O'Really? approach – remember when the Fox Security Service was going to pay a call on a caller to his show?
Damn. i've never been Rick-rolled. I must be some kinda Luddite.
Then again, I'm not into twatting on the Twitter, either.
i once rick rolled myself somehow.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
I signed up for Twitter a while back, but other than occasionally stalking Sara Benincasa in the hopes she'll interview me in a bathtub, I keep it free of my twits and twats and tweets or whatever.
Silly natoslug, Sara doesn't like things clean.
Coulda been wikirolled.
I'd prefer a cinnamon roll.
If the White House is reduced to using outdated internet memes, then we're in danger, as maybe all our base is belong to Boener.
Well Boener is about as base as it gets.
hes in ur base, using ur bronzer.
O, hai! I upgraded ur recession! Kthxbai!
Rush can haz cheeseburger?
All your cheezeburger are belong to him.
How is lobby formed?
Hopey needs to announce another prime-time speach, and come out and just say "Whats the deal, can't a nigger get a debt ceiling increase?"
Yesterday WaPo said he was struggling to stay relevant. Today that editor is staying away from open windows, as you never know when a red dot might appear on your forehead, and your best friends won't tell you.
I want to read more twitters about John McCain and the Hobbits.
Sadly, the "Tea Party hobbits" line came from a WSJ editorial, which was funny enough, but woulda been funnier if McCain had come up with it on his own (I know, I ask too much). Still, it managed to provoke a Sharon Angle hissyfit, so I'll give Walnuts that much
Maybe they should have gone for something with a "retro" feel. I hear "retro" is "all the rage" these days.
One of our former dead possum IT/Twitterverse posters (social media specialist) pulled the same stunt for our business. I thought he might be the downfisting troll when he moved back in with his mom. Glad to hear he found found work.
Rickrolling OR Bush's oh, we lost 10 months of emails from a triple backed up system designed to never lose a single email.
Which do you prefer?
user @wiggsd's punishment will be to receive only Twitterz from Sarah Palin.
It won't be long before user @wiggsd will be found hanging from his/her cell.
Shoulda just replied with "Your Momma didn't think it was boring when I was banging her last night".
If you're going to go out, go out in a blaze of glory.
the intern should have linked to sarah palin's twitter feed instead.
At least we're finally getting away from the Bush White House's inexplicable fascination with that dancing baby….
Tubgirl has some great thoughts on the crisis.
Joe Biden Planking or GTFO.
Owling, please.
bbc homepage has a picture of some tool dressed as captain america protesting something or other about the debt ceiling.
this is all fucking embarrassing.
Dammit, you made me look.
Totally off topic but the very weirdest thing I find about British media is their obessesion with American crime. I was reading one of their dailies the other day – can't remember which one – and they had some piece on the very top of their website about some murder in North Carolina, as if they don't have enough violent crime in their own country to cover that they have to cover some random, local murder in the American South. I've seen this quite a few times and I don't get it.
Actually I thought Rick was alot cooler in the early/mid 90's when he "grew" as a song writer and lyricist. Check out some of his later stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9lUbf5GQ0
Best bottle head throw on youtube?
Ouch!
If I had a nickle every time I saw the Jesus Lizard or Scratch Acid and wish I had a glass bottle of Rolling Rock to throw at David Yow's head…….I'd have almost $2.
makes me think of Pop Will Eat Itself's Preaching to the Perverted"
Astley's in the noose, hang loose kid
lift the lid on the crimes he did…
Tight and shiny!
When the teatards find out they've been double-crossed and the Social Security checks don't show up, I think fiscal policy will be anything but dull as we watch the hijinks ensue.
Double-crossed?! "I knew that Muslin wuz gonna take mah check! He's probably gonna give that monies to the black people!" This will have them charging up their hoverrounds for the 2012 election .
Bitchslapped.
Everything looks boring if you live in a world of fast cars, loose women and gunfights each night… aka the World of Grand Theft Auto.
"Is the White House not here to entertain you? Are you not being entertained?"
Could have been worse they could have lemonparty 'd him….
"Gov. Christie was on the way to Hillsborough in Somerset County to sign open space legislation. He was taken to the hospital by motorcade"
Right, a new law that requires all remaining open space to be paved over as soon as possible.
I don't understand your criticism of the debt talk, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pancake-bunny#.TjGN...
Oh yeah?
e^{i pi} + 1 = 0, therefore god doesn't exist.
The link led to a YouTube clip of Rick Astley's 1987 hit single, "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Now, if you're going to go with the 80's, personally I would have done Guns N Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle." Or Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Or…
How about 'All your debt ceiling are belong to us'?
"You have have my trucknutz when you pry them from between my nicotine-stained teeth." – John Boehner.
This should be celebrated, as clearly people are using pot in the White House again.
This is demeaning to the presidency! If Bush were still in office, this "@wiggsd" person (presumably an alias) would have been escorted to Guantanamo for a little enhanced interrogation.
Quite the opposite. He'd have been promoted and then given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Why? Because…Freedom; that's why.
Did anyone watch it? It was 15 seconds of "Never Gonna Give You Up" followed by 36 seconds of MIchelle Obama watching the news while muttering "whitey" under her breath.
For the first time in my life, I'm actually proud to walk like an Egyptian.
What about this peanut-butter-jelly-time thing?
Despite the fact that I got seriously irritated with that meme several years ago, I'm still kind of impressed.
This would have actually been funny if the link went to the Thom Friedman getting pied video.
Usually a "roll" means Esctasy, but upon hearing the first 3 notes of this song, you would have to be Marcus Bachman gay to get any esctasy out of that…
Remember after 9/11 when we totally thought we going to kill Osama Bin Laden, and instead George W. Bush Iraqrolled us?
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