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According to internet futurist John Hinderaker, when it comes to Twitter-twatting, conservatives are kicking ass and taking LOL’s:
The Left Is Getting Clobbered on TwitterWe are in the early stages of the 2012 campaign season, with a lot of battlespace preparation going on. In the skirmishing so far, one perhaps surprising media advantage has become clear: the right is clobbering the left on Twitter.
Maybe it’s because Twitter puts a premium on brevity and cleverness. I don’t know. But for some reason, it seems to be a natural medium for conservatives. We saw it when the Hilary Rosen interview (“Ann Romney never worked a day in her life”) prompted a Twitterstorm. We saw it again when #ObamaEatsDogs exploded, and when #Julia blew up in the White House’s face like an exploding cigar.
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If you haven’t yet started using Twitter, you should give it a try. You can follow, among countless others, Michelle Malkin, Jim Treacher, David Burge (Iowahawk), Jonah Goldberg, Melissa Clouthier, Big Government, Byron York, Ed Morrissey, Steve Hayward, and, as I said, countless more, including me.
I think it is wonderful that John Hinderaker and The Conservatives have landed on Twitter Beach, planted their flag, and claimed it as their own from which they can display their brilliance in 140 characters or less which will then go BOOM! like little words IED’s right in the libtards faces. After all, that is how elections (and wars!) will be won from this day forward. Of course, as Susan of Texas points out, to really get a feel for how conservatives have mastered the form (it’s their “natural medium”!), you need only turn to one of Hinderaker’s Recommended Twatters: author, noted conservative intellectual, 2-time Pulitzer nominee, 11-time Super Bowl participant (if by ‘participant’ you mean he watched it on TV) and founding member of the Algonquin Children’s Round Table at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg to see how it is done:
This is why the editor and fact-checkers on Jonah’s new book were forced to surrender sharp objects as well as their belts and shoelaces when they came to work every day. For their own protection of course.
(Enthusiastic golf clap for Susan of Texas)
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The dog in Jonah’s avatar must be completely mortified, and it’s not because someone dressed him up in a party hat.
NRO: The world’s best paying sheltered workshop.
Hey Pantload: the phrase “child pornography” shows up IN YOUR OWN TWEET.
Jesu Cristo, how do these people even dress themselves?
In Jonah’s case, I think Lucianne must lay his clothes out for him every night, cause his wife surely won’t.
More stupidity than could ever be imagined by any number of rational humans, now available for your perusal, on Twitter. Enjoy- it’s all free, on the wonderful world of internet!
You can follow, among countless others, Michelle Malkin, Jim Treacher…
Great, so every day I can have 90% of my twitter feed being lame jokes about dog -eating? Do even right-wingers want that?
I’m baffled by the fact that they thought #ObamaEatsDogs was successful. I know toddlers that could have come up with better.
From what I understand of Twitter, actual content is at a premium, and not really necessary-all it takes to build a popular or fast growing topic is to retweet what everyone else has said until to shove your way to the top. No wonder conservatives are ‘dominating’ Twitter: It requires the most obeisance and the least thought of any big networking site.
No doubt Doughy Pantload was “too busy” to do the “research” before twatting out his twitty tweeter, per his usual “style” that’s called “writing.”
Did Pantload even get a load of the Time cover before opening his proverbial pie hole? Doubtful.
I had to go look at Time, myself, to figure out what the
manufactured controversyhullabaloo was about. Was it pr0n? No. Was it weird? Yeah, sort of, esp the way the photo was posed, albeit the article raises some reasonable questions and points of discussion. Typical, though, of how Time has devolved into National Enquirer status.Doughy Pantload? Still worthlessly LAZY and teh stoopit. Waste of pixels.
What’s scary to me right now are the number of DOD -real jobs- requiring ‘experience in the use of social media, including Twitter…’ as tho this has meaning, value, utility – anything at all.
O! You meant ‘mouth’. I read ‘pie’ and started thinking about the number of apricots which are ripening on my tree right now…. Apricot pie…. Sorry.
The wingnuttosphere: nation of Chauncey Gardiners.
You wanna know what’s totes adorbs? The way they incessantly refer themselves as “clever” (“Maybe it’s because Twitter puts a premium on brevity and cleverness.”)
They also actually believe that they’re “witty.” It’s the intellectual version of a cargo cult: four generations ago, William F. Buckley used big words and a dryer-than-dust delivery to thrill the Tory hearts of his army of resentful nerds, drunk-on-fantasy Randroids, Kloset Kweers, America First-ers, and all-around sexually-repressed nudniks, and their descendents have been under the impression that “conservatives are clever” ever since, proudly defiant in the face of the fact that the funniest people in the U.S. are always, always liberal.
For that statement, he is awarded the Kombat Keyboard Badge w/ Yellow Elephant.
Just to stick to the basics of the case, I am at a loss to understand how Jonah could possibly miss the word “child” in Nolte’s tweet. Straining my brain to the limit, I can come up with 1 or 2 possible explanations, to wit: (1) Jonah is dyslexic in some way, and/or (2) he fixated so firmly on the word “pornography” that he was blinded to all else.
The first might account for things like his not really understanding what, say, “fascism” actually means, no matter how much he “reads” about it, if he does. The second, well… let’s just say that neither one redounds to his credit in the cleverness dept.
It is the perfect medium for Jonah. That is the maximum number of words he can string together without descending into total incoherence.
The only thing greater than a wingnut’s stupidity, ignorance and paranoia is their circle-jerkilicious delusion of grandeur.
Well, OK… maybe their utter lack of self-awareness.
See Jonah “gets” teh cleverness here. Twitter is all about who you “follow” and if you follow all the folks who will confirm your biases then they will “follow back” and you have a nice little circle jerk goin on. which is convenient when you follow everybodys porn too. And see Jonah cleverly makes his avatar a dog cause he likes to sniff his fellow conservative butt and when they follow back, well then its like he is sniffing his own butt. I mean while he’s down there licking his balls. OK he was already sniffing his own butt but then they all get to sniff his butt and lick his balls together
It all gets very meta and very clever,
@BigGubmint’s timeline is sort of dead….
Hopefully Jonah won’t see your comment. #ObamaEatsDogs combined with #Toddlers will pop his zipper….
Don’t clobber me, please, but isn’t twitter simply facebook for short attention spans?
To be accurate, they believe themselves to be “wits”. They’re half right.
Twitter: the natural medium for bird-brains.
If being a loathsome human being was a crime, Goldberg would be on death row. This Freudian slip is illustrative of just how loathsome he truly is behind his mask.
Earlier today, Goldberg’s former(?) colleague pointed out that he thought white supremacy has been teh awesome.
Add me to the bird-brain ledger…
I follow a bunch of tweeters like Grist that link to a shitload of interesting (to me) stuff…
And the thing is, we’ve all seen what conservative wit and cleverness actually looks like: “Teleprompterz!! LOL!!1 Obama eats teh puppies! 57 States! LOL Michelle is so fat!1!!” They make Johnny Knoxville look like H.L. Mencken. Lighting their farts would be a step up.
Twitter is cyber Tourettes. No offense to Tourettes sufferers intended. One is unavoidable, the other is self-inflicted.
Yea Jonah, Republicans are the biggest twits on the internet.
I wonder if the GOPers have some kind of programing thing that lets them retweet each others tweets. GOPers are not all that well read I have yet to see a GOPer quote a Rush, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin Book.
GOPers magically get their books all in the NY Times best sellers list we suspect with bulk purchases that are given away as gifts.
Maybe they are doing the samething with twitter?
I personally have never “twitted” or “tweeted”. But I am an expert on the Twitter Phenomena. Yes, the Conservatives and child molesters have won. They are the champions of the Twitter Machine and have soundly thrashed liberals, progressives, lefties and vegetarians.
Why? Because any Conservative idea needs less than 140 characters to explain. Usually, 100 characters are more than enough to explain a conservative position.
I would suggest that Goldberg limit his columns to 140 characters. But, 140 are more than enough for Goldberg to make jokes about child pornography. Well played Conservatives and again congratulations for your Tweeter Victory.
This story does not smell right. Twitter is for young people more right if so then why do we get huge crowds for OWS, Wisconsin Protests, Immigration Rights Protests etc?
Why can’t the GOP organize a counter protest of even half the size, in half the locations we can?
I am sure organize with twitter some of our protests so why can’t they?
Unless of course the GOP has robots forwarding tweets to other dummy accounts?
That’s not a party hat; that’s Jonah’s dunce cap he puts on at the office each day. That’s why it’s called “The Corner,” because that’s where the dummy with the dunce cap sits.
Why would the GOP bother to fake a twitter presence?
1) GOP political campaign managers like Karl Rove want to say to Fat Cat GOP donor’s we have 100,000 twitter fans if you have a political viewpoint you want pushed give us cash.
2) A computer program that generates good and or bad replies would be easy to fake a 140 character turing test to discover fakes would be impossible. So if your Karl and you get paid based on how many e mail addresses and twitter accounts you have why not create a few fake ones since you won’t get caught?
3) The GOP has a problem with young people look at the numbers of young people who support Gay Marriage, hate the GOP war on Women, etc rather than fix the problem the GOP has been known to lie about problems away.
Before we buy any GOP story about how they are winning on Twitter ask yourself when will the GOP ever use twitter to get boots on the ground?
Mitt and the GOP in the Presidential Primary was getting 6% less voters than McCain got despite the increase in population since then.
GOPers claim their people don’t do protests because they have jobs.
Now they want to claim twitter political junkies are to busy to vote for a GOP President?
I went to the link nowhere in the article does it give numbers reference a source, or give a link to their claim they have more people on twitter than us!
i am not a twitter person what criteria should we use to study this claim a list of the 10 most popular Lefties and Righties and their twitter followers?
Never mind possible dummy accounts.
Just as water can’t fight the force of gravity, wingnuts appear to have a fatal attraction for media geared to the lowest common denominator: Fox News, tabloids, and now Twitter. Its 140 characters are geared to those whose level of discourse generally extends to soundbites, epithets, cliches, and pithy perversions of faith. It’s nice to know that Jonah has finally found his metier.
The article mentions the twitter storm over the comment that Ann Romney never worked a day in her life.
But how many times has twitter and social media been used to help get Glen Beck, Lou Dobbs off the air? Twitter helped make Rush apologize for calling Sandra Fluke a slut.
Where are the conservative Twitter wins ?
I think Dean Wormer’s advice to Flounder fits within 140 characters, no? “Fat, drunk [or in Jonah's case, gluttonous] and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” Somebody should send this to Jonah about eight million times so he might get it.
Twitter is for twits, so there’s a natural affinity there.
Plus, all conservative tweets will ultimately condense into the following:
“I M John Galt. Librul media godless soshulism lower taxes hollyweird god hates fags smaller government libruls R the real racists. Wolverines!”
Once so condensed, this tweet will eventually be re-tweeted to everyone in the twitverse, making it, and conservatives by extension, the WINNERS FOREVAR in the social media/online Biggest Twit of All Time competition. Also, it will cause the twitverse to collapse in upon itself in a black hole of Ultimate Stupid, with a gravitational pull so intense that no rational thought can escape.
Coming as this does shortly after both Alex Pareene’s retrospective and Mother’s Day, I’d like to take this opportunity to put in a good word for Jonah’s Mom, Lucianne.
Bringing home whacking off material for her talentless and maladjusted son was truly a rare and special act of motherly love, the kind of act that one might expect to be discovered only via police reports and criminal court transcripts. While it’s true that the material in question resulted in porn of very poor quality (even sickly, one might say), it was (and remains) the thought that counts, and represents a truly generous act of Motherhood.
Yes, I predict that Lucianne Goldberg shall serve as the template for a future generation of patriotic
feministsladyists, taking care of their sons’ needs in ways that would never occur to selfish feminazis reading their angry poetry and whining about their pay disparities relative to male counterparts.Lucianne has shown the way – BOOKMARK IT, libs and feminazis!
I guess it’s just a coincidence that Goldberg’s other Twitter account name is “@ShortEyes.”
Wasn’t it big news when John McCain got a Twitter account in 2008? That’s why he won the election!
Goldberg should have I’M A MORAN tattooed on his forehead.
Why all the Twitter hate?
Honestly, you people all sound like my grandparents. I like Twitter so much more than Facebook because I follow people who a) have interesting and/or funny things to say, and b) link to a lot of interesting media that I would otherwise have missed. It’s certainly helped me expand my horizons and find a lot of engaging material on the Interwebz – and it’s been far more effective in helping me attract readers for my own blog.
Whereas on Facebook, I only seem to get endless updates on the children of people I haven’t seen since high school, blegs and feedspam from musicians I saw once or twice, and requests to play astoundingly boring games.
So yeah, if you think that Twitter is supposed to be just another version of Facebook, no wonder you don’t like it. That’s not how it’s supposed to be used.
Hi Spence, welcome to Oldfogeyville! All your new technologies frighten and confuse me. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the tiny people on this magic twitter internet machine.
You know, I don’t know much about this new social media, but I DO know this! Twitter is great at helping Jonah find that ch*ld pornography he otherwise would have missed.
(h/t to the great Phil Hartman, you are missed.)
Tweet : post approx as post : article, article : book, book : education
(and wisdom is somewhere over the horizon)
Not that there is anything wrong with that, so long as you don’t confuse your categories
Good God the man is too lazy to read 140 characters!!!!!
Who the hell defrosted the Caveman Lawyer?
My tingly-bits are less tingly today and I’m damn sure not gonna see any star-bursts.. I blame Jonah.
Shorter Jonah: blah blah blah such care, blah blah well researched, blah “founding” editor, blah blah Pulitsir nominee.
For all we know, Lucianne is finger fucking him right now. While that does *nothing* for me, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
BTW – I am nominating this post for a Pulitzer prize. Like, congratulations!!
~ Harry R. Sohl
Heh!
ShoutyFaceBook/KeepOffMySpaceLawn I’ve never felt the reason to follow.
Twitter? Fuck Yeah!
Like you mention (and I mentioned @24) it’s an easy platform to expand your horizons. You need to weed out who to follow and always stay tuned to follow other coolness and the ability to basically instant message peeps you’d prob never be able to text is awesome…
Goldberg is dumber than a stump.
He didn’t “miss child” – he just responded in his usual half-assed dickish COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG way.