Bill Kristol’s arrival Monday on Twitter was greeted with a mixture of vitriol and mockery, but he told TPM that he’s having a blast.
Within moments of joining, the Weekly Standard editor was met with reminders of his long history of errant predictions.
“Wrongest Man in Politics to Now Be Wrongest Man on Twitter,” read the headline on Mediaite.
@BillKristol Look deep into your Kristol balls and tell me how the war on ISIS is gonna pan out
— Greg O’Lantern (@leducviolet) October 13, 2014
Other users immediately told him to turn around and never come back.
.@BillKristol delete your account
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) October 13, 2014
@BillKristol log off
— Ben Jacobs (@benhjacobs) October 13, 2014
.@BillKristol Delete your brand new account, shitbird
— Odd Hack (@Odd_Hack) October 13, 2014
There were tweets that made fun of him for his bellicosity and others that were simply designed to perplex, like those that deliberately confused him with the actor Billy Crystal.
Nevertheless, Kristol, who has fired off four tweets and racked up more than 4,000 followers in the 24 hours since he joined, said he’s having a good time on the new platform.
“I’m enjoying it so far,” he told TPM in an email on Tuesday. “What’s not to like?”
And as for torrent of hostile tweets, Kristol said he hasn’t even read them.
“I’m following interesting and witty tweeters, and ignoring almost all the mentions and replies,” he said.
“What’s not to like?”
Everything?
Twitter is the perfect platform for those who tell big lies, in small sentences, that cannot stand up to any questioning.
He’s what… 6 or 7 years behind the times? Smooth move dumbass.
So he refers to himself in the 3rd person as “Mahomet” which is generally understood to be a reference to the play in which the moral character of Mohamed was mercilessly attacked (calling him “Mohamet” in the play) and is a massive critique of “religious fanaticism and self-serving manipulation” (thanks Wikipedia)? An apt analogy for Kristol and other Teatroll neo-con fanatics I suppose. According to Wikipedia, there appears to be some opinion that the play might have been an indirect or veiled critique of the Catholic Church and its crimes against humanity too. All in all, I’d gladly call Kritsol “Mohamet” all day long and watch his idiot face grow red in consternation because he can’t quite wrap his head around the booboo he made using that to describe himself.
An asswipe tweets what?