Twitter Users Mercilessly Heckle Rep. Pete Hoekstra
Thursday June 18, 2009
If an award is ever given out for the dumbest tweet by a public official, there will be no competition: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) wins hands down.
Earlier today, he put up this ridiculous post on Twitter likening the oppression of the Iranian people to the plight of House Republicans:
Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.That's right, he compared the mass uprising of Iranians – utilizing Twitter as an organizing tool -- to the GOP's attempt to express dissatisfaction over Nancy Pelosi's decision to adjourn Congress before an energy vote last August.
In response, Twitter users have been mercilessly heckling Hoekstra en masse, turning his idiotic statement into a full-blown Internet meme. "To Hoekstra" now has its own definition, which is "to whine using grandiose exaggerations and comparisons."Here are some of the best Twitter responses, via Talking Points Memo and Pete Hoekstra Is A Meme:
• My softball game was rained out today. Now I know what Hurricane Katrina felt like.
• Rode a packed metro into work this morning. Now know what it's like to be in a concentration camp.
• Walked out onto Constitution Ave in D.C. and was almost hit by a taxi. Reminded me of Tiananmen Square.
• I burned my finger this morning on a hot plate, now I know how Joan of Arc felt.
• I spilled some lukewarm coffee on myself just now, which is somewhat analogous to being boiled in oil.
• Our office cooler ran out of water. This must be what it's like in Sudan.
• I splashed my face with cold water this morning after shaving, which is similar to having been waterboarded.
• I got a splinter in my hand today. Felt just like Jesus getting nailed to the cross.
• Someone walked in on me while I was in the bathroom. Reminded me of Pearl Harbor.
• Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now I know what the Trail of Tears was like.
• Ate leftover for lunch today. Just like the Donner party.
Add your own Hoekstra-style exaggeration in the comments section below.
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Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now I know what the Trail of Tears was like.
Sprained my ankle. Now I know how James Caan felt in “Misery.”
I poked my finger on a hanger. Now I know what all those aborted babies go through.
Coughed once this morning. Know now how bubonic plague feels like.
And this idiot wants to be guv of Michigan.Don’t we have enough problems.
While it was raining, I looked up and got hit in the face with a drop of rain. Now I know what waterboarding must feel like.
I stepped in a puddle today and got my shoe wet. It was like being on Flight 1549 and landing in the Hudson River.
I had to sit in the last row of our corporate jet this morning. This is what Rosa Parks must have felt.
Today I couldn’t remember what year the Berlin Wall came down. Now I know how it feels to be a House Republican.
A boy hit my foot with his remote controlled toy car today. It felt like being run down by a truck.
This morning @ Starbucks, I had to wait an extra two whole minutes for my Cafe Grande, — now I know exactly what John McCain went thru as a POW in the 1960’s…
When I was a teenager and had a friend who was into Wiccan. I remember her being teased about it, and it totally reeked of the Crusades.
Had an upset stomach after an aspirin. Now I know what chemotherapy feels like.
Had to take late lunch yesterday — Now I know exactly what those starving children in the 3rd world feel.
Did my jogging and ran into a pole, now know how it was to crash WTC on 9/11.
I went to the movies, and the movie I wanted to see was sold out, now I know how it was like for African Americans in the 1950s.
Sent an embarrassing Email that made a couple of people think I’m an idiot. Now I know how Pete Hoekstra feels.
once two or three people told me I said something totally asinine: I feel Pete Hoekstra’s pain.
My wife squealed angrily out of our gravel driveway this morning, peppering me with gravel. Now I know how it feels to get sprayed in the face with buckshots by your “friend”. I apologized immediately, of course.
Amazing how clever Amercians can be. These comments are wonderful, funny, and so very clever.
Hoekstra is tne same inchworm who in April of 2006 wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and then went on hannity about 5 times in two weeks announcing that he had found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
hannity of course went all epic with the “Story”, until it died in about 3 weeks.
A naked and coarse stunt that should have resulted in Hoaxstra being expelled from the House.
My grandpa craps his pants when he’s excited, and my toddler bangs his head on the floor when he’s frustrated. Now I understand Pete Hoekstra and his Republican buddies.
Got a flat tire on my way to work. Now I know how the guys from Apollo 13 felt like.
Was driving to work this morning when it started raining and I felt like Noah in the Ark.
Happened to see some oil drops under my car this morning. Now I totally grasp the seriousness of the Exon Valdez catastrophe.
Refused a pack of peanuts on the airplane today. Now I know what Ghandi must have felt like when he was doing a hunger riot.
I saw my dog relieve itself in a neighbor’s yard today. Now I know how it must feel to be Laura Bush.
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Ended up having to stay at the Four Seasons hotel the other day after my girlfriend kicked me out of the apartment. I now truly understand what it must feel like to be a Palestinian in Israel.