The District Of Columbia Is Fracked

Feb 24, 2009

By Patrick.

Politics & Current Events, Technology, WTF?

By way of bored humor, I created a twitter account yesterday in the name of Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States. Its posts (which you may find here before the account is banned) consisted of these:

Back from gitmo lol. They have a McDonalds and a BK and a KFC and surfing. Don’t know why anyone would want to leave.

Perez Hilton: Lindsay Lohan back on the Drugs??? http://ad.vu/rydw Teh girl needs help.

Some scary dudes in this gitmo place. May have to ship em to China lol.

On second thought, I’m AG. I make the rules. I’m in ur gitmo. Settin free ur terrists. #lolcat

Oops. Some DOJ lifer tells me not supposed to twit from Gitmo. Does this thing have a delete button?

Just landed @ guantanamo in sunny Cuba. Hope to meet Raul if can work it in. Any yall tweeps need rum / cigars lol?

WTF? http://is.gd/keVp Monkey w/blue scrotum? Get a tip Fox. I’m SUING YOU FOR SLANDER, lol.

RT @anamariecox Apparently Supreme Court filled with cylons BUT WHO ARE THE FINAL FOUR??? http://twitpic.com/1ndqv ROFLMAO!

Note that all of the posts, with one exception, use the internet term “Lol” or a variant thereof. Now, not to the particular credit of anyone, the account got tweeted and retweeted as humor. I believe that blogger Patterico was the first to recognize it as such. Which it is, in its juvenile way. I have a juvenile sense of humor, and so do Eric Holder’s many followers on Twitter. Only a moron wouldn’t see that this is a joke.

Or the high officials in the government of the District of Columbia, who are also following “Eric Holder” and have sent the account private messages thanking the attorney general for following them, or sending “Eric Holder” policy advice, via Twitter.

They’re not morons. Not in the slightest.

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20 Comments

19 Comments

Chris Berez • Feb 24, 2009 @5:57 pm

Or the high officials in the government of the District of Columbia, who are also following “Eric Holder” and have sent the account private messages thanking the attorney general for following them, or sending “Eric Holder” policy advice, via Twitter.

What do you mean they sent the tweets? How could they send the tweets, man? They’re congress!”

Either that or simply:

Game over man, game over.

The latter is probably more apt in this situation.
Ken • Feb 24, 2009 @6:26 pm

I’m out sick for a few days, and already you’re going to get us audited.
Kevin • Feb 25, 2009 @9:55 am

You made the ABA Journal –

http://www.abajournal.com/news/holders_twitter_tales_of_scary_dudes_at_gitmo_written_by_prankster

Good work!
Jag • Feb 25, 2009 @10:16 am

An audit would be the least of your problems. I suspect you are going to get a visit from some jack booted thugs. Oh wait, Bush is out, Obama’s in. Make that Birkenstock wearing thugs.
Andrew • Feb 25, 2009 @10:42 am

You made The Note, too: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/02/ag-holder-on-tw.html
Patrick • Feb 25, 2009 @10:53 am

Of course if AG Holder wishes it, he may have the password. I think it’s a nice looking feedpage.

Personally I thought the most interesting thing is that there are people in the government (and a couple of leftist advocacy groups now) who couldn’t see through the lolcatz. The account has a nifty collection of direct messages.
Jag • Feb 25, 2009 @12:23 pm

Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/25/1657/40200/177/701547

Res Ipsa blog
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/25/twit-holder-spoofed-in-fake-twitter-entry/
Ken • Feb 25, 2009 @12:25 pm

None of them have connected it to us yet, though. Hmm.
Patrick • Feb 25, 2009 @1:06 pm

I predict that shortly after 4pm eastern time, Holder will twit the following:

Any of you tweeps know the difference between qualified immunity and sovereign immunity? Please dm w/link.
Al • Feb 25, 2009 @2:18 pm

Third hit on Google. Goes up to first if you use “I created” (including quotes). I don’t think you’ll be under the radar much longer.
Ron Coleman • Feb 25, 2009 @6:53 pm

A taste for virtue-free fun from time to time is surely the ticket to major traffic and publicity.

In contrast I sleep the sleep of the just.

The obscure just.
Patrick • Feb 25, 2009 @7:20 pm

On the contrary Ron, you’re hardly obscure.
Don Keefhardt • Feb 26, 2009 @9:42 am

“Charlie don’t surf !!!”
Wacky Hermit • Feb 26, 2009 @2:25 pm

Awww, cut ‘em some slack. They probably just got hip to this newfangled intertuby thingy that all the whippersnappers are jawing about, and haven’t yet figured it out all the way. After they DM’d “Eric Holder” with policy advice, they probably informed that nice barrister from Nigeria that they would speak to the Ambassador about his money transfer problem.
Ron Coleman • Feb 26, 2009 @2:34 pm

Damn, I can’t even get someone to say I’m hardly just!

Well, I know I’m just broke…

And I’m also just curious. How do some people make their pictures show up in the comments? Or are those only Popehatters?

Or is it WordPress being WordPress again?
Patrick • Feb 26, 2009 @2:42 pm

http://www.gravatar.com

The caricature you use at Likelihood of Confusion would make a fine gravatar.
WM • Feb 27, 2009 @12:34 pm

Looks like there is another “high official” following “Eric Holder”…

http://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/blog-eric-holder-twitter.html
Andrew Yu-Jen Wang • Mar 7, 2009 @5:04 pm

Speaking of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder:

Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

Many people know what Bush did.

And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

Bush was absolute evil.

Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

Bush is a psychological prisoner.

Bush has a lot to worry about.

Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Patrick • Mar 7, 2009 @7:07 pm

Mr. Wang, kindly take a chill pill.