Rep. Clyburn: Key To Getting Out The Dem Vote Is ‘Sexting’ (VIDEO)

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks with reporters at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Clyburn, 73 and the the first black elected to Congress in South Caroli... U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks with reporters at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Clyburn, 73 and the the first black elected to Congress in South Carolina since Reconstruction, says he plans to run for a 12th term in November of 2014. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) MORE LESS
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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) mixed up “sexting” with “texting” while talking about how to turn out voters for the upcoming November midterm elections.

The Daily Caller on Wednesday flagged the third-ranking House Democrat’s appearance on C-SPAN, which apparently took place over Labor Day weekend. Clyburn made the slip-up while telling a caller who was concerned about the recent police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown that she should use social tools to organize voters, according to the news outlet.

“Use the tools that we have,” he said, according the Daily Caller’s clip of the appearance. “We’ve got great tools to communicate about everything else. We can text. What do we call it? Sexting. Let’s do some voting, organizing over the internet. We’ve got the tools. Let’s use them for a new massive movement that will make sure that we can have in November 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 in November.”

Watch “‘Fox & Friends” discuss the slip-up below:

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  1. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Hey, old people are coping with tech the best they can. The Congressman should be congratulated for boosting the pulse of C-SPAN’s viewer.

  2. Funny mistakes like that are, well, funny.

  3. Sounds like a foolish mistake, but on second he may have something there LOL!

  4. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    Took the thought right out of my head!

  5. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    As one of the “old people” I know the difference. It’s my wife who’s confused. When I’m sexting her she texts back “where are you”, “are you lost again”, “should I come and get you, you can follow me home”. Jeez.

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