This morning, AOL published a tweet saying that sources confirmed that Joe Biden willenter the presidential race. The link in the tweet was broken. Here is a screenshot:
They eventually noticed their mistake (after severalhours of the tweet being live) and corrected.
That didn’t stop the relentless amount of mockery for AOL being, well, AOL.
While the tweet isn’t accurate today, could it be at some point?
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Pollster Kellyanne Conway told a group of Republican lawmakers to stop talking about rape, according to an article by Politico.
The advice comes in the wake of remarks about rape last year by pro-life candidates Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom lost U.S. Senate races in November.
Last week, Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Republican from Georgia, said that Akin was “partly right” that women who are raped are unlikely to get pregnant.
We are unaware of any reputable scientific studies that support this claim.
Last Friday, in an attempt to diffuse the controversy, Gingrey’s office threw both Akin and Mourdock under the bus:
I do not defend, nor do I stand by, the remarks made by Rep. Akin and Mr. [Richard] Mourdock. In my attempt to provide context as to what I presumed they meant, my position was misconstrued.
Not surprisingly, liberal tweeters (who love seeing the word “rape” and “Republican” in the same sentence) are reveling in the story:
https://twitter.com/themrmer/status/291993695912333312
https://twitter.com/jesseltaylor/status/291992304254873600
https://twitter.com/markos/status/291991695468404736
https://twitter.com/beth4158/status/291994428288151552
https://twitter.com/adamsteinberger/status/292003476467224577
Akin’s comments, of course,were ignorant, garbled nonsense, and many conservatives said so at the time.
By contrast, Mourdock simply said that life is a gift from God, and he believes this to be true even in cases where life results from “that horrible situation of rape”:
The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.
Mourdock repeated the point:
God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick.
This is an honorable man who spoke clearly and with conviction. He was wrongly portrayed as a lunatic and is now being thrown under the bus even by Republicans.
Moreover, it’s not as if Mourdock just blurted out his comments apropos of nothing. He spoke about rape only after being asked about his position on abortion during a debate. How would Kellyanne Conway have him respond? Refuse to answer the question?
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/291991778834399232
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/291994687722643456
Perhaps what Kellyanne Conway really wants to say (but won’t because she doesn’t want to alienate pro-lifers) is that pro-life Republicans should moderate their position on abortion. Talking less about rape has nothing to do with it.Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/01/17/effort-to-akin-ize-pro-life-republicans-continues-apace/
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One of the leading presidential candidates has spent the past three and a half years blaming his problems on his predecessor. Guess what? It wasn’t Mitt Romney.
@TheDemocrats I know. It's crazy how often Romney blames everything on George Bush.
— mrskorpio (@mrskorpio) July 12, 2012
@TheDemocrats I think you misspelled "Obama" guys.
— Amy (@moderncomments) July 12, 2012
Hypocrite, thy name is @TheDemocrats. Seriously, after 3.5 years of Obama's Blame Bush meme, you're saying Romney blames others? #GetaGrip
— Suzi Basterd (@suzibasterd) July 12, 2012
Sometimes the comedy of horrors that is the Obama Administration actually is funny.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breath* HAHAHAHAHA OMG RT @greg_zemaitis: HAHAHAHAHAHA —> https://t.co/cBVa6Xwu
— Bri (@GreeneBri) July 12, 2012
To be fair, the elected Democrats we’ve all come to fear and loathe aren’t running their own Twitter account. No, they’ve delegated that to a low-level staffer or intern. Conservatives felt a little sympathy. Well. Almost.
I actually kind of feel sorry for @TheDemocrats. Is it too early for me to go all soft like this?
— Kevin Eder (@keder) July 12, 2012
They signed up for it. RT @keder: My heart goes out to the poor intern who runs @TheDemocrats' Twitter account. Bless his or her soul.
— Ollie (@texasollie) July 12, 2012
@keder @thedemocrats Don't feel sorry for stupid, just chuckle softly.
— Sixchain (@sixchained) July 12, 2012
Take heart, Democrats. There’s a learning curve to politics, even after three and a half years of running the country into the ground.
On the plus side, today we learned that @TheDemocrats know that blaming others is not very presidential. #Obama2012
— One Who Remembers (@lheal) July 12, 2012
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