Here’s a fun epilogue to Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s (R-MI) phenomenally entertaining Twitter post yesterday, in which he said, “Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.”
The statement generated lot of ridicule in the blogosphere, and some really funny jokes in the Twitter community.
Yesterday afternoon, Hoekstra’s spokesman gave this statement to CNN:
“Congressman Hoekstra did not compare the ongoing violence in Iran to when Democrats shut down the House chamber during the energy debate last summer,” said spokesman Dave Yonkman. “The two situations do share the similarity of government leadership attempting to limit debate and deliberation, and the ability of new technologies to bypass their efforts and allow for direct communication. That’s the only point that he was trying to make.”
