‘Just sick’: Obama says it’s Congress’ fault he has to resort to executive action

http://twitter.com/#!/BiasedGirl/status/483689994813317120

Poor Obama. It’s just not easy being him.

POTUS ventured into the Rose Garden this afternoon to reiterate the importance of passing immigration reform and castigate those pesky congressional Republicans for failing to make it happen. Just pass that “darn bill” already!

http://twitter.com/#!/ZekeJMiller/status/483690767169646592 http://twitter.com/#!/elisefoley/status/483690872823758848

Serious, you guys. Because if there’s one thing Obama hates, it’s having to bypass Congress and try to take matters into his own hands:

http://twitter.com/#!/ZekeJMiller/status/483689605376790528 http://twitter.com/#!/NBCNews/status/483690618170781696

Suuuuuuuuuure.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheRickWilson/status/483689659512664065 http://twitter.com/#!/davidharsanyi/status/483689692379246592 http://twitter.com/#!/KemberleeKaye/status/483690304571469824

You know, Mr. President, if you really hate taking administrative action, there is a solution:

http://twitter.com/#!/lheal/status/483689736909778945

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/30/just-sick-obama-says-its-congress-fault-he-has-to-resort-to-executive-action/

Joan Walsh accuses Twitchy of ‘ugly racial paranoia’ for reporting riot threats

http://twitter.com/#!/joanwalsh/status/265261080576663552

The accusation was made in response to Romney supporter @Jayne720’s tweet:

.@joanwalsh You’re on Twitter. Surely you’ve seen the hundreds of tweets saying “If Romney wins, I’m going to riot” ?

— Jayne(@Jayne720) November 4, 2012

Twitchy has reported on riot threats (most recently here). But @Jayne720 didn’t say anything about race, and neither did we.

No one has questioned the accuracy of our reporting. No one has come forward with similar tweets posted by Romney supporters.

Our finding — nearly two dozen tweets posted on a single day threatening to riot if Barack Obama loses to Mitt Romney on Tuesday — was newsworthy and timely. We are honored that The Drudge Report chose to link to it.

In our post, we included every riot tweet we could find that was posted on Friday, November 2nd. We did not exclude any tweets based on race.

It sounds to us like Walsh is suggesting that we should ignore riot threats (and perhaps assassination threats, too?) if they come primarily from “anonymous” African Americans. In other words, we should hold non-famous black people to a lower standard than we expect from famous people or white people.

Who, then, is the racist?

Note also what Walsh chooses to be upset about — not the fact that dozens of people are threatening to riot if Obama loses, but the fact that Twitchy reported the threats.

Update: Walsh now appears to endorse the absurd argument that the tweeters featured in our post were part of a Romney “false flag” operation designed to make Obama supporters look bad.

FTW @maureenwct

— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) November 5, 2012

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/11/04/joan-walsh-accuses-twitchy-of-ugly-racial-paranoia-for-reporting-riot-threats/