This is a quick one...
U.S. News & World Report attributed the following statement to Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus: “...has a message for so-called "birthers": Shut up!
Priebus responded this morning with a strong worded Tweet: “This isn’t accurate...I never said this. @usnews: GOP boss wants Trump to shut-up on Birther claims.” (see Salon link supra).
Apparently, Twitter is now an appropriate forum upon which to conduct business. No leaking information to newspapers when you can say it in 140 characters or less.
What’s next? Collections of the Tweets of presidents in their libraries? Will history be able to follow what happened by reading little bits of information puked out when you are in a hurry?
Imagine George Washington, standing among his troops at Valley Forge, with his iPhone out and his thumbs hitting the keys:
Valley Forge. Cold. No food. Looking foreword to killing redcoats. Cornwallis is a pussy.
Or Thomas Jefferson with his Android phone, trying to lobby his fellow ‘founding fathers’ in favor the First amendment:
Free speech. Free press. Religious freedom. Great things. Vote for 1st Amendment. Get free fries at Hooters while I explain!
Benjamin Franklin, on final draft of US Constitution:
Need points for PP presentation 2 GWashington. Send b4 I get to Philadelphia. Pls.
Abraham Lincoln, his Blackberry in hand, discusses Battle of Gettysburg:
Kicked Lee’s a$$ @ Gettysburg. Train late. Mary Todd shopping, again. Says she has nothing to wear. Closet full of clothes.
General Robert E. Lee after realizing he screwed up at Gettysburg:
Me$$ed up. Pickett never listens. His fault he got massacred. Don’t try to blame me. Not my best moment.
Admiral Husband Kimmell, looking out over the wreckage after the bombing at Pearl Harbor:
Career over. Gen Shorts fault. Lying bastard. Courtmartial? Going to be a long war. Right time to quit & woek 4 Kaiser Steel?
General Sir Bernard Montgomery during the campaign to take Sicily:
Patton What a pain No bloody class Typical American Brits should have taken Palermo
Japanese Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, realizing he just lost the Battle of the Philippine Sea:
Need saki. Screwed up. Lost 2 many ships. Pilots can’t hit barn without map. Damn plan looked good on paper Got 2 blame Tojo
General Douglas MacArthur, after the Chinese counter attack against the allied advance in Korea:
Truman a pain Want nuclear weapons Why can’t I have them? Solve entire problem w/1 bomb probably get relieved
General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces in South Vietnam:
London wont give more trps Need 100k more this war isnot going to have a happy ending.
David N. Lownds commander of the Marine ground forces at the Khe Sahn Combat base during 1968 Tet Offensive:
Mud mud mud No air support food water. Where do they all come from? Jeez, I want my life back.
Neil Armstrong with his military grade BlackBerry on the moon:
Moon dust Is this what we came 250k miles for? Where are the moonbabes we were promised? Buzz is an idiot
On and on. Would we be able to understand history, if it comes out in 140 character increments?
I doubt it.
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