social media
Mitch McConnell Ad Wildly Popular With Whatever Bot He’s Paying For YouTube Views
by Doktor Zoom
Here is Mitch McConnell’s new campaign ad, which an ABC blogger describes as having “the feel of a trailer for a movie by Michael Bay,” but which looks to us like nine million other “Morning In America” knockoffs, only with a lead character stolen from a Dr. Seuss book. Yet there must be something magical [...]
Your Forty-Third Reminder Of Inaugural Wonket Book Club Livechat With Author & NPR Guy Andy Carvin Tomorrow!
by Doktor Zoom
Mark your colanders, Wonkers, because the inaugural online meeting of our awesome little book club will be tomorrow (Tuesday 3/5/13) at Noon EDT. We’ll be discussing Andy Carvin’s Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution; our book review will go up at about 11:45, and then author Andy Carvin will join [...]
Your Wonkette Book Club Will Now Dominate Your Media Diet With This Book About Covering The Arab Spring With A Smartphone
by Doktor Zoom
As we mentioned last weekend, Your Wonkette is starting a book club thingie, because why wouldn’t we? Here’s the dealio: pretty much every month, we will select a book, announce that selection, and give the Wonkettariat some three weeks or so to read it, followed by a review and a nice long discussion. Unlike a [...]
Delete That Crotch Shot Before You Get Famous
This morning, let’s play some games on egalitarianism, read up on libertarian symbols such as soda, and learn how to tweet. Happy Friday! Mayor Bloomberg wants to take away New Yorkers’ giant sodas — nothing over 16 oz. It’s already too late, man, we’re never all going to fit into the N train, no matter [...]
Here Is Your Handy Guide to Avoiding the DHS Eye of Sauron
We all know that the Department of Homeland Security has several sub-basements filled with all the illegitimate offspring of the members of Congress whose sole miserable task is to sit at the computer consoles they are chained to and troll Twitter and Facebook in search of bogeymen with social media accounts. But which search terms [...]
Your Morning Whatsit: On Mitt Romney’s Sad Awkward Laughter
Today, it’s all about robotic fish, robotic laughter, and how robots are taking all our data and trying to become human. Just kidding! Actually it’s about how scientists are looking at all the awkward things you write on Facebook. There is a significant debate going on about using people’s data on social media sites for [...]
President Obama Now Your Sister-in-Law, Wasting All His Time on Pinterest
How is Barack Hussein NOOBAamA disgracing the Oval Office NOW? He is cold just sitting on Pinterest, swapping recipes for Obama cakes and “pinteresting” (?) dreamy window treatments and the softest pashminas! Why is Obama Pinteresting when gas prices are so high? Shouldn’t Obama be transmitting to his Russian masters instead of gawking at adorable [...]
Homeland Security Is In Your Tweets, Waiting For Your Revolution
by Liz Colville
The US government is watching our every tweet, but don’t worry, it’s just to get a “situational awareness” of the world. Since 2010, the Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring “publicly available” information such as forums, Twitter accounts, and websites like WikiLeaks, Facebook and Hulu (what? – “Hey boss, I’m just monitoring these SNL [...]
Michelle Obama Takes Break From Bicep Curls to Learn Twitter (VIDEO)
by Blair Burke
Your regular installment of the FLOTUS Files was postponed this week, as your FLOTUS correspondent was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage in socialist/communist/generally terrible France, which is somehow Michelle Obama’s favorite and least favorite place of all time, favorite because of all the fanciness, and least favorite because of the time everyone ate [...]
White House Will Now Pretend To Listen To Everyone’s Crazy Ideas
by Blair Burke
Hey, America! Do you have ideas? Do you think that maybe everyone should be able to smoke lots of weed, or drive in cars without seat belts, or that we should all be ruled by robots, instead of Barack Obama or, Allah-forbid, Rick Perry? Well, terrific, because now the White House will humor you with [...]
The Internet Is Now In Charge of the Debt Ceiling
by Blair Burke
Americans are pretty much just sitting around eating Cheetos, waiting for the government to be raptured or whatever, and trying to get the disgusting image of Boehner’s leaky blue eyes out of their recent memories. But hey, Obama wants you to know that you should not lose hope (ha ha HOPE, remember that thing?) because [...]
New Twitter User Barack Obama Not A Huge Fan Of His Job
Barry Obama from the Block finally got around to installing the Twitter application on his Blackberry this weekend, probably after John Boehner mocked him at their Golf Summit for running around without it. The president’s account to date has been filled with dry robot White House staffer tweets that made Chuck Grassley’s Twitter feed look like [...]
Rick Sanchez To Personally Overthrow Egypt Regime, Via Twitter
by Jack Stuef
Did you know Rick Sanchez is currently saving the people of Egypt from dictatorship, with the journalism and the social media? He is! If you are aware of any Egyptians who are in trouble, let Rick know, ok? He will send it out to his wider audience: his kids and his dog. And he has [...]
Genius Programmer Rick Sanchez Invents Exciting News Techonology
by Jack Stuef
BREAKING WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE: Rick Sanchez has gotten up from the couch, brushed off the Cheeto dust, and duct-taped his laptop to his teevee. This changes everything. [Twitter]
George Allen Going To Bring His Football Back To the Senate, Macacas
by Jack Stuef
Virginia’s George Allen may be the most brilliant legislator to ever play with a football on the Senate floor, but unfortunately, he also likes to use old-timey racial slurs of which nobody has ever heard, so he was defeated in 2006 for saying “macaca” on YouTube. It was an important moment in American history, according [...]
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