Behold the oh-so-objective media in action.
This week GOP candidate Mitt Romney irked the British press and the American Left — clearly his key voting blocs — by telling NBC’s Brian Williams:
There are a few things that are disconcerting, stories about the private security firm not having enough people. The supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials. That, obviously, is not something which is encouraging.
Cue the breathless outrage!
#RomneyShambles with all the outrageous uproar, you would think he said something horrible like, "you didn't build that…"
— D Y (@Klagmar) July 26, 2012
Romney, who knows a thing or two about running the Olympics, later told reporters, “I don’t know of any Olympics that’s ever been able to run without any mistakes whatsoever, but they’re small.”
Of course, no lefty manufactured outrage is ever complete without an over-the-top Twitter hashtag and so, #RomneyShambles was born.
Today's succession of London faux pas and blunders is now known as #Romneyshambles
— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) July 26, 2012
But this one had a little help, courtesy of a Yahoo! News article that also appeared on the ABC News website.
[E]veryone knows you haven’t really won a news cycle until Twitter has coined you a hashtag, and the microblogging service obliged Thursday afternoon with # Romneyshambles.
ABC covering a hashtag? Whoa, it must have been huge, right?
Yeah, no. Check out the last line of the article:
#Romneyshambles is not yet trending on Twitter.
Gee I wonder if @phoebedoris was trying to make the #RomneyShambles hashtag trend… http://t.co/6BxCyc61
— #IAmNotStephenKBanno (@SimonTemplarPV) July 26, 2012
Conservative domination of Twitter is so complete that the lapdog media have resorted to promoting the Left’s hashtags before they even trend. Just like the slobbering lapdogs do for conservative hashtags, huh?
QUICK!! Cover the non-trending anti-Mitt hashtag after ignoring all the conservatives ones!! http://t.co/8C4KVPhh h/t @MoonbatCatnip
— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) July 27, 2012
Conservatives pushed back by highlighting some of President Obama’s international relations gaffes.
#obamashambles started speaking while the queen was giving a speech. #tcot #GOP
— juliebean (@juliagulia614) July 27, 2012
#obamashambles BO botching relations with Poland. #tcot #teaparty
— Annah Nigma (@AnnahNigma) July 27, 2012
https://twitter.com/Viasmom/status/228682976790200321
#obamashambles when he toasted the Queen when God bless the Queen was playing in her honor. Big no no
— just me (@efricke) July 27, 2012
#obamashambles Most embarrassing when Obama gave Churchill's bust back to England.
— just me (@efricke) July 27, 2012
https://twitter.com/tarabrobst/status/228707253891502081
The #ObamaShambles hashtag isn’t trending yet, but it’s totally newsworthy, dontcha think? We’re sure Yahoo! News and the other Obama campaign lapdogs will get right on it.
Just as soon as they’re done snuggling in the president’s lap.
