Meet The New Twitter Celebrities Who Sent Mean Tweets To Obama
On Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, President Obama treated viewers to an all-Obama edition of Kimmel’s trademark “Mean Tweets” segment, and instantly created a handful of Twitter-famous presidential trolls. They made fun of his gray hair, his golfing habit, his jeans, his handling of the malt beverage industry, and one of them even got a laugh out of him:
1) @carold501 – Hailing from southern Mississippi, this gracious granny observed that the president’s hair is getting grayer, even though he “doesn’t seem to be one bit worried about all that’s going on,” but lest you think she’s superficial, Carol has some deep thoughts. For example, this rock-solid case against white racism…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Warman1138 March 13th, 2015 at 15:31
To have so many mean tweets is terrible and sad as there are so many of them wrapped up in misinformation and hate born of fear. I respect and admire the president for his courage to carry on.
red-diaper-baby 1942 March 14th, 2015 at 11:30
Yes indeed — both him and the First Lady. They’ve taken all the hatred and venom thrown at them for the last seven years with dignity and grace. I admire them both more than I can say.
OldLefty March 14th, 2015 at 13:15
Do they think that these sentiments are unique?
Or new??
During Adams v Jefferson;
Jefferson’s camp accused President Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
In return, Adams’ men called Vice President Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ran negative presidential campaigns
Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant,
Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward.
Many historians say John Quincy Adams/Andrew Jackson contest the nastiest.
Imagine the tweets about each other from their supporters if they had social media??
Today’s right wing seems to think that NO ONE EVER had such negative thoughts about ANY presidents in ALL of history!!
FatRat March 14th, 2015 at 16:52
Tempers got heavy before the Civil War. Sumner for example.
Burr and Hamilton exchanged angry exchanges and gunfire.
Congress seems to be like Compton, the Red and Blues fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Caning of Charles Sumner
Brooks didn’t stop when his cane snapped; he continued thrashing Sumner with the piece which held the gold head. Sumner stumbled and reeled convulsively, “Oh Lord,” he gasped “Oh! Oh!” Near the end of the attack, Sumner collapsed unconscious, although shortly before he succumbed he “bellowed like a calf” according to Brooks. Brooks grabbed the falling Sumner, held him up by the lapel with one hand, and continued to lash out at him with the other.[11][12] Several other Senators and Representatives attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Edmundson, who yelled at the spectators to leave Brooks and Sumner alone,[13] and Keitt, who brandished his own cane and a pistol, and shouted, “Let them be!” and “Let them alone, God damn you, let them alone!”[14][15][16]
Senator John J. Crittenden attempted to intervene, and pleaded with Brooks not to kill Sumner. Senator Robert Toombs interceded for Crittenden, telling Keitt not to attack someone who was not a party to the dispute, though Toombs also indicated later that he had no issue with Brooks beating Sumner, and in fact approved of it.[17]
The cane Brooks used was broken into several pieces, which he left on the blood soaked floor of the Senate chamber. Brooks later wrote that he had saved the portion of the cane which contained the gold head.[22] This portion of the cane was worked to smooth the edges and finish, and eventually ended up at the Old State House Museum in Boston, where it is on display.[23] Southern lawmakers made rings out of the pieces left on the Senate floor, which they wore on neck chains to show their solidarity with Brooks, who boasted “[The pieces of my cane] are begged for as sacred relics.” [24]