Thursday, January 05, 2012

Fun 'Times' on Twitter

My pal Mark Allen sent out the rather hilarious tweet "Rick Santorum has Dan White-eyes" yesterday -- I immediately retweeted -- and then found out the hard fun way what the right will do when you say something they don't like and you have "NY Times contributor" in your bio, as Mark does.


He tells me:

Some of my friends chuckled, many agreed. Haha. But...

…now it's gotten picked up by all these right-wing blogs (including one of Andrew Brietbart's sub-blogs), with headlines like: "NY Times, NPR Contributor Contributor Mark Allen Compares Santorum to Harvey Milk's Assassin."

Wha? All from one blasé tweet I did while half asleep!


The comments, which invariably make no sense whatsoever, are priceless, especially HERE and HERE.

Some of my faves:

InfinityGirlCA100p · 22 hours ago
So now is it OK to say Obama has ' Osama Eyes '? He hates Christians and Israel and loves Muslim Fascists, just like Mr. Fishfood.

dcase136p · 22 hours ago
of course he does. What eles do they have? What other tactic? They are all SO shopworn; the 'racist, homophobe, sexist, whatever' tag should be met with a shrug and a question: 'What's your point?'...

GOBOMBO72p · 20 hours ago
Remember, Dan White was not covicted of assassination. Maybe the people at the NYT have been eating too many Twinkies. Worked for Mr. White, maybe it will work for those shovel ready slanderers.

Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 6:27pm.
How does that degenerate know? His eyes are glazed over most of the time due to acute substance intoxication. I have to ask, is there some kind of liberal rule that forbids shampoo, soap and toothpaste? The guy looks like some homeless psychotic who signed out AMA from the psych ward.

The worst part of this post is that they edited Belinda Carlisle out of the photo with me!

I told Mark I knew the phenomenon all too well. Knowing that this would likely happen to me if I ever stated where I worked -- as a nobody copy editor for the News Service -- I kept my employment at The New York Times a "secret" all seven years, but then finally came out of the Sulzberger closet in a post about getting laid off. Within days (literally), I was treated to this -- the comments were even better than the blog post -- as a result of a tweet I had sent about Lou Dobbs' mysteriously saying he was going to be making an announcement, instead of just making it. I made some hilarious rude crack about him possibly having what forced Robert Novak to resign, which was put through the "liberal media bias" translator to read as you see above. Obviously I didn't say that, everyone knows liberals don't pray!

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