John Nolte: Twitter is the most powerful political force in the world right now

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February 16, 2011

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"My views on women’s rights have always been quite radical (in defense of women)," asserts doghouse-confined "left-wing journalist" Nir Rosen (above) on assignment in Dubai, protesting perhaps a bit too much in an apologia for having made light on Twitter of fellow journalist Lara Logan's barbarous sexual assault by a gang of Egyptian revelers last week. "Working in the Middle East, parts of Africa and Asia (like Afghanistan) and in Mexico only further outraged me, because I have seen first hand how brutally women are treated there. And we are only a little bit better in the West. The status of women in the United States is also deplorable." Uh huh.

By Sissy Willis of sisu

Twitter isn't just for earth-shaking revolutions overseas any more. It can turn a case of individual online boorishness into a spontaneous teachable moment that trumps the faux outrage and calls for "a new civility" foisted upon us by the Journolist crowd a few weeks back in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre …

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Comments:
  1. Ragspierre says:

    Nir Rosen…the picture you see next to the entry for “toast” (see also “Pig”)

  2. Neo says:

    Done in by a Freudian slip

  3. Susie Q says:

    The man is another moonbat idiot. The status of women in the US is nowhere on the scale of the barbarism perpetuated on women in the ME, parts of Africa and Halfassistan.
    This is the same man that used his journalist credentials to get Taliban past American checkpoints in Halfassistan. I’ve wiped better stuff off the bottom of my shoes.

  4. mark l. says:

    twitter?
    food is, and always will be, the most powerful political force.

  5. Live Free Or Die says:

    Sex is a food group, right?

  6. Ragspierre says:

    Oh, yeah…like an essential amino acid, dude…!!!