Holy. S*it.
Here is The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill, formerly with ESPN, on President Donald Trump SOTU speech last night:
Nah, she gotta yell: GETCHO HAND OUT MY POCKET https://t.co/Yi2xYOx00U
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 6, 2019
If you don’t immediately get the reference, she’s saying that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should shout out, “Get your hand outta my pocket” as a distraction, as was done in the assassination of Malcolm X. From the Washington Post:
The shooting began in the Audubon Ballroom just as Malcolm X was preparing to speak.
A commotion eight rows back in the Harlem auditorium interrupted him. “N—–, get your hand outta my pocket,” a man yelled that Sunday in February.
“Now, now, brothers, break it up,” Malcolm X told them. “Be cool, be calm.”
Distracted, Malcolm’s bodyguards moved away to break up the scuffle. Suddenly, a man rushed the stage with a sawed-off shotgun, and two more fired handguns, hitting Malcolm X in the chin, hand and chest.
Maybe she was hoping we wouldn’t understand her meaning?
The joke here is that AOC should have participated in the assassination of the president https://t.co/p6YQiiLdLe
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 6, 2019
Oh, nothing.
Just a @Twitter blue check fantasizing about the President being assassinated.https://t.co/K6MhsmOFpV https://t.co/zDM7xIDa1J
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 6, 2019
Just a journalist joking about assassinating the President. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/bCk5Ztb7Wk https://t.co/R9NUWdWsXw
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 6, 2019
But tell us again how tweeting “learn to code” is targeted harassment:
Tweeting learn to code gets your account suspended while this is just good old fashioned journalism I guess. https://t.co/kbAcZQ2t3I
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2019
Can we even respond to her or will that get us banned, too?
I would translate, but then Twitter would ban me. That’s how it usually goes: react to a threat by exposing it, and Twitter blames you. https://t.co/WcZ7iy5Jq1
— Patterico (@Patterico) February 6, 2019
And boy does the firing of Kevin Williamson look even dumber now:
good thing the Atlantic didn't hire Kevin Williamson
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 6, 2019
Screenshot for posterity:
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 4, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 26, 2017
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