Little known fact: Twitchy keeps its overhead low by living rent-free in Ellen Barkin’s head.
Sunday night, the actress took some time off from Mormon bashing to retweet a follower rooting for Tropical Storm Isaac to “wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean!” Or as Barkin would call them, conservatives.
https://twitter.com/jdonels/status/239863816081514496
@HighwayStarrrr @ellenbarkin I'm pretty liberal but isn't it kinda racist to wish people with a different belief death? Just sayin
— Stone Kidman: Outrage Merchant (@KidmanMakino) August 26, 2012
After a handful of Twitter users called her out, Barkin responded by lashing out at … Twitchy.
@J_McStiffy For better or worse, that was not my original tweet.A retweet.But Twitchy
liked it better their way!!!— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 27, 2012
Twitchy didn’t misrepresent the disgusting retweet as a tweet written by Barkin. In fact, Twitchy didn’t report on Barkin’s tweet at all … until now.
Evidently facts come as easily to the unhinged actress as tolerance and civility.
Great tells of a liar blinking,avoiding eye contact,repeating question asked them…and…TWITCHING.Aptly named. Michelle Malkin is a genius
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 27, 2012
@jashsf Never, I just know she started the twitchy lying "news" site. Lol..if it wasn't so fuckin scary…but ppl actually believe.
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 27, 2012
As many Twitter bios indicate, a retweet is not necessarily an endorsement. But Barkin didn’t give any indication that she disagreed with the revolting sentiment when she retweeted it to her followers. Instead, she falsely accused one conservative Twitter user of wishing ill on New Orleans.
@jdonels Are you hoping for another tragedy in New Orleans?Heavy subtext there, ugly for sure.Block
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 26, 2012
https://twitter.com/jdonels/statuses/239870834850803712
Next time Barkin wants to accuse Twitchy of being a “lying ‘news’ site,” she’d do well to take a long, hard look in the mirror instead.
@EllenBarkin How did you come to think this way? You are a star on Twitchy because you tweets are so bizarre!! What exactly do you want?
— Kathmdo (@KathMDo) August 27, 2012
Update:
Barkin continues to claim Twitchy is lying even though we didn’t so much as mention her retweet until she accused us of lying.
Been down this road before,Twitchy
With positions,ie,bigotry,hatred,violence,like yours,u should be able to drum up enuf hysteria w/o lies— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 28, 2012
Previously:
Ellen Barkin: Utah station that won’t air her sitcom has ‘sacred undergarments’ in a ‘Mormon twist’
Actress Ellen Barkin: ‘This Twitchy, is it real?’
Leftist bigotry: Pig Maher gay-baits Ryan, says ‘Obama is too white,’ minorities are poor, take bus
Ellen Barkin admits to being an extremist lunatic
Ellen Barkin apologizes to One Million Moms, promises ‘open mind’
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