Discussion: The Worst Tweets Of 2014

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Can we have nominations for the funniest story of 2014 on TPM? Cause I have a few candidates.

  1. There was the time in September after an Adidas soccer jersey was found on the banks of the Rio Grande that.the Lieutenant-Governor of Texas started bellowing at the Values Voters’ summit that Islamic prayer rugs were found in America from invading hordes of Meskin muslims.

  2. And in October there was the guy in Oregon who was open-carrying his brand-new pistol, until he was robbed of it by ANOTHER guy carrying a gun.

  3. There was the Thrilla in Wasilla by the Palin party crashers back in September.

  4. In June, a EPA administrator in their Denver office circulated a memo begging the staff not to poop in the hallways.

  5. And my favorite, the suicide bomber back in January who accidentally blew up his ENTIRE class, proving that not all Teabaggers are in THIS country…

That’s just FIVE right there.

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One of my favorite twitters of the year: conservatism crosses over into pure postmodern theater ~ explained in tweets…

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Hands down, it’s a Trump trump. Well, if you are talking quantity.

Ok…how about the most careless gun accident of 2014? I have DOZENS of those.

It was yesterday and I’m still upset that TPM didn’t run with the 2yr old who shot his mom at the Walmart. What is up, TPM? ALL year long you’ve been all about gun porn.

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  1. The article where there was a glaring, easy to spot typo.
  2. The article where the title was click bait.
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I assume that Charles C. Johnson, the award-winning independent journalist, is disqualified from any worst-tweets competition in order to let the other kids have a chance to win.

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Then there was the article where Josh attacked by legitimate comment and the other where he attack Chammy. Does that count as one or two?

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Were those tweets?

Hey, the two-year-old at the Wal-mart is in the Gun Carelessness file.

fer realz? Didn’t see it.

In the comments section for respective articles criticizing the authors of said articles.

Josh cannot possibly have clickbait on here.

If he did, then he’d have enough money to hire another reporter and wouldn’t have to beg us for any.

And 2014 is rung out with Andrew Breitbart still being dead.

My mistake. It was on Raw Story.

Don’t EVER criticize Breitbart.

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I did once. Something about Breitbart’s ticker blowing him to Kingdom Come. That was when Werdel was working here and got the Vapors. He freaked out and started issuing more banns than an Irish church.

File this under the category of wholly ignorant, frequently hyperbolic utterances known as “Tweets by Twits”.
Moral of the story – People lacking impulse control should not have Twitter accounts.
All too often, they have second thoughts about their foolish online comments and need to follow up with an apology: “Forgive me Lord, for I know not what I tweet.”

Wow, terrifically clear “essay” on something so many of us have observed for some time – with bonus note of despair about how to overcome it. Thanks for starting my 2015 by making me want to swallow hemlock.
(Seriously, a great link.)

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Well, it’s NOT like Breibart’s gonna be reading any of those criticisms any time soon.

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