Isn’t THAT Special?
Okay, so here’s how this went down.
First thing that happened was that Ari Fletcher, George W Bush’s former press secretary, saw a tweet by President Barack Obama and was all “oh no, you di-int.”
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The only thing was, President Obama’s tweet was most certainly not over 140 characters. Count for yourself and you get 136 characters.
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So, there was that.
Fletcher admitted he was wrong but I imagine that he’s sure it wasn’t his fault.
The next thing that happened was that Public Policy Polling polled people and happened to ask if people thought that President Obama got to use more than 140 character on Twitter. PPP often does fun stuff like that.
The poll showed that 13 percent of GOP primary voters think Twitter does permit Obama to exceed the 140 character limit while a majority — 52 percent — said they weren’t sure. Thirty-six percent said they don’t think Obama enjoys a larger character limit than the rest of Twitter users.
Little know fact: 57% of Republican voters believed that Tweet is what Miley Cyrus did on tv. The rest thought we should invade Iraq to make Miley Cyrus stop doing that.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
The only extra characters when the President Tweets, are the ones that come out of the woodwork with their crazy conspiracy theories. And that’s because “character” is a more polite way to say wingnut.
I wish PPP had asked Republican voters if they thought Obama used Muslim Twitter to get his 140+.
1What a bunch of twerks.
2You know, if I keep banging my head on the keyboard, I’m gonna hurt myself one day.
3The President doesn’t have different rules than anyone else. It’s just that he actually USES the rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation (unlike this guy!)
4And 26% of Republicans think that Obama is the spawn of Satan. This number has not changed in at least five years.
5i could be wrong, but i’m pretty sure there’s at least a coupl’a thing going on in the world that are sort’a important!
6According to my son, there is a way to expand one’s tweets. He says lots of people do it, but you couldn’t prove it by me. I just take his word for it.
7We should find out how many Republicans think the lyrics of the song “Rockin Robin” were inspired by Communists seeking to undermine America’s moral fiber through such statements as “all the little birdies go tweet-tweet-tweet…” (obviously using the secret Obama code to obtain more than their fair share of characters.)
8See what happens when you defund education? The citizens forget how to count.
9If most Republicans could count to 140 we’d be in a lot less trouble than we’re in.
10This is all they’ve got????? Well, I guess when your own party has been skewered by Carnaval Cruz, you really are out of luck!
11RepubAnon-please don’t feed the trolls. They are dangerous enough without the good guys giving them ideas. Thumbs up for funny and originality,though.
12If your are going to be that small minded, at the least you could be right.
13Does anyone else think that Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber look so much alike that they could actually be the same person?
14Lyin’ Ari Fleischer. Sniff… Sniff… I thought I smelled sulfur.
If this is what he has to offer these days, counting characters in President Obama’s Tweets, he’s taking too much time away from making the donuts at Dunkin’.
Get back to work, ya lyin’ weasel*.
Good Grief.
*apologies to weasels everywhere.
15You see Ari, if you confine yourself to one exclamation point or question mark you get extra words in.
16When Fleischer commenced as dumbass dubya’s press spokesman,the first sentence he uttered was that there were gonna be times when the administration was gonna release falsified information. Apparently, he is still on the job.
17http://www.long-tweets.com/
You rilly can tweet longer. In the interest of full disclosure-I don’t have a Twitter account.
18Do they really know who Miley Cyrus is?
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