What's the difference between @owillis and an 8-track player? one is totally useless, and the other plays 8-tracks.
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GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013Media Matters fellow Oliver Willis thinks conservatives are dumb. He thinks conservatives who have questions about what happened in Benghazi last fall are especially dumb. As Twitchy reported earlier today, he even created a hashtag, #GOPBenghaziQuestions, designed to mock those who think the White House has neither fully explained nor owned up to the awful events that transpired on September 11, 2012.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was among those who took issue with Willis’ hashtag game:
Hey @owillis do u have any knee-slapping tweets about Sandy Hook you bumbling, irrelevent gasbag?—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
Hey @owillis how's that "fellow" title working for you? Does it get u a discount on housecoats?—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
What followed was one of the most dishonest Twitter diatribes we’ve seen, and that’s saying a lot.
I see I upset @greggutfeld, who apparently never got over being pantsed on the playground by some liberal—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Here's Greg Gutfeld saying child victims of gun violence don't exist mediamatters.org/video/2012/12/… #genius—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Of course, Gutfeld never said that “child victims of gun violence don’t exist,” as Willis falsely claimed. Gutfeld’s point was that some of the “kids” who are touted as innocent victims of gun violence are in fact nearly-adult criminals who were killed as a result of their gang involvement.
Don’t take our word for it. Judge for yourself. (Scroll ahead to 1:50.) It’s not the first time Willis has been wrong on his facts.
But Willis wasn’t done yet. First, he falsely accused Gutfeld and his Fox News colleagues of mocking the Americans who were killed in Benghazi:
No @greggutfeld the mocking of American deaths comes from u and your channel who tried to ride those deaths to a Romney win. Whoops.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Imagine the horror of waking up every morning and being the joke Greg Gutfeld is. *shudder*—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Not even kooky conservatives take him seriously. He's actually punching up by whining about little ole me.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
greg gutfeld, kind of a doof bit.ly/UCo086—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
convo i had today w my 2 yr old cousin about diego far more insightful than anything greg gutfeld's said or written or will say or write—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Next, Willis repeated his mischaracterization of what Gutfeld said … but this time trotted out the race card for good measure:
.@greggutfeld no, but unlike u he didnt say that gun deaths of kids dont matter, esp if theyre black.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
greg gutfeld's insults are insightful as gallagher sans watermelons.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
"suckbag" lol. @greggutfeld go back to making jokes about dead inner city children and i use "jokes" in the loosest sense.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
i dont know who's dumber, gutfeld or the lemmings who outsource their thinking to him. a draw, i suppose.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
here's gutfeld and crew making up hillary clinton benghazi conspiracy theories mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/2…—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
and here's greg gutfeld saying that child victims of gun violence, esp if black, are obviously in gangs mediamatters.org/video/2012/12/…—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Willis must have known what he was alleging was false, but perhaps he hoped that repeating the false allegation over and over again would somehow make it seem more truthful.
.@greggutfeld you have me confused w tv hosts who use deaths of americans for cheap point scoring.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
if only someone hadnt pantsed greg gutfeld on the playground, the world would have one less attention-starved troll. oh well.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
verbatim quote from gutfeld fan @ me: " ah another muslim diaperhead Soros thug" just so you know who you're dealing with here. heh.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
just my luck. i get a fox news host angry at me and he's not even one of the ones who really matters. cmon, hannity, step it up!—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
some days im still amazed by the lack of independent thought on the right. so easily led along, no wonder rove thinks youre chumps.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
if i didnt have a conscience, id get in the separating conservatives from their money business. so easy.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
but somehow i feel its immoral to scam money out of grandmas by screaming about obama's un agenda 21 gun grab…—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
imagine if the gop hadnt made complete morons about themselves on an important issue like benghazi? then i wouldnt have had any jokes 2 make—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
another gutfeld fan writes in: " who gives a fuck about the blacks! not us!! let em keep shooting each other. u shut in faggot motha fuka"—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
Gutfeld was more than capable of defending himself:
realizing he's a sad suckbag @owillis resorts to hiding that he mocked tragedy by shouting "Hey I have a two year old relative!" Pathetic—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
God I hope @owillis gets a promotion to "senior" fellow. That means he gets free wifi in his stuffy bedsit.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
@owillisobvious ploy: called out as a sad douchebag, you frantically look for other sad douchebags to deflect your weak, cowardly life.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
Question: when @owillis applied for a job as a fellow at Media Matters, did he really think there was an office?—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
how many times did @owillis condemn the right for insensitivity + now mocks the American dead? tonite Ollie's Senior Fellowship is over.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
Hey @owillis got anything to say to the families of Bengazi dead? A joke? I bet u tell people u could standup. if u could stand up.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
I'm on a bumpy flight to jfk and I'm handing my anxiety to @owillis for mocking the Bengazi dead. Bet he's wearing a cape and taking a bath.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
What's the difference between @owillis and a boiler? One generates heat in a basement, and the other warms schools and factories.—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2013
Willis was reduced to accusing Gutfeld of being obsessive, even though Willis’s tweets about Gutfeld outnumbered Gutfeld’s tweets about Willis.
dude is PAYING FOR WIFI to complain about me, LOL. how sad.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
in posting this picture, i want to note that @greggutfeld is the one w the national tv show #patheticobsession http://t.co/ZYQcgS7A—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2013
yeah im unclear what he and his lemmings think this is going to do? make me cry? from laughter, maybe! @DCPlod—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2013
the right used to be good at fighting the left, now they just yell "poopyhead" and their acolytes applaud it. thanks, barack.—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2013
at least i got some twitter followers out of this fox news host freakout #winning—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2013
gutfeld fan: "are u a fag? u look like a fucking fag. I believe you are indeed a fag. A stupid, ignorant, hateful little muslim fag"—
Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2013
And here’s the bottom line:
See @owillis takes stuff out of context and paint u as racist. when u call him on is mockery of american dead, he hides like a coward—
GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 18, 2013
Willis mocked conservatives who, in good faith, have been asking questions about the murder of four Americans in Benghazi last September. Then, when Gutfeld objected, Willis falsely accused him of claiming “child victims of gun violence don’t exist.” Then, as if that weren’t bad enough, Willis claimed Gutfeld’s statement revealed racial animosity toward black people.
Naturally, Eric Boehlert sided with his Media Matters colleague.
yikes. Fox host @greggutfeld spends holiday wkend obsessively tweeting about @mmfa's @oliverwillis; bit.ly/XiXh0F—
Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 18, 2013
These people consider themselves arbiters of media misinformation. Utterly shameless.
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