Hey everybody, some birthers are just wandering around various Senate and House office buildings, bothering the shit out of staffers and interns, and then twatting about it, on the Twitter. David Weigel, the Stephen Crane + Ernie Pyle × Martha Gellhorn of the Tea Party-Birthers Wars, has the whole collection of retardation, go look at it and laugh, for America. [Washington Independent]

When Nobama shuts down Twitter to finally free America from gross old white guys typing porn on their Blackberry machines, it will be messages like this one that we remember, from creepy weirdo Karl Rove, about how he works in an office full of masturbators draped in Snuggie-brand couch blankets, in the heat of July. [Twitter via The Hill]

We know a little bit about disputed elections and revolutions and riots and such, and they all have one thing in common, throughout human history: Twitter. This is why Andrew Sullivan demanded that the always-broken Twitter not undergo some crucial scheduled maintenance tonight. MORE »

Iranian media crackdown prompts Tweets and blogs [Christian Science Monitor]

Oh look, snowbilly grifter and chronic liar Sarah Palin has done that predictable thing. Isn’t that cute, it’s just her second twat and she’s already whining about the Librul Mediaz. STOP IT. Also check out the Cheryl Tiegs/Sears-style neon Paint Shop Pro signature on her background image. Jesus, she is mentally a nine-year-old, isn’t she? [Sarah Palin Twitter]

This might seem nuts, but it turns out that the combination of Twitter and the Pig-Bird-Mexican flu pandemic is a whole lot of Wrong. That is the point of this post, we think, although this quote from CNN sort of demolishes, well, everything: “Chatter about swine flu is also loud elsewhere online. About 10 times more people are writing online about swine flu than wrote about the salmonella and peanut butter scares from this winter, Nielsen says.” [CNN]

This guy is too much: He was so PISSED OFF by Homeland Security noting that certain heavily armed anti-government wingnuts might, uh, do something crazy that he decided to take his guns to the Oklahoma City teabagging protest and, uhm, kill a bunch of cops. That’ll learn ‘em! MORE »

If you had any remaining doubt that Twitter is just a creepy old man muttering batshit nonsense, PUT THOSE DOUBTS AWAY, forever. Larry King has a Twitter. Good Lord. MORE »

The super-dumb full-of-shit jingoistic Magic 8-Ball known as “John McCain’s twatbot” crapped this out today: “America has been and remains the greatest force for good in history.” Eric Spiegelman wonders why John McCain is pissing on Christ’s grave. [Bus Your Own Tray]

Yes, we sort of expected this, but it’s still a strange thing to see in the old Wonkette Tips box. Hello, Karl!

History may not change the perception of George W. Bush Junior as America’s crappiest president, but many thousands of excitable dorks are very excited about the New Reputation of lovable gargoyle Karl Rove, America’s latest favorite Twit. MORE »