By Michelle Malkin
Friday, October 19, 2012
Liberal celebrities want all of the adoration that
social-media engagement has to offer — but none of the accountability that
actual engagement requires. For the Hollywood elite, it’s “do as they say, not
as they tweet.” But actress and outspoken Obama campaign co-chair Eva Longoria
learned a hard lesson this week on Twitter:
Conservatives online are mad as hell and aren’t taking it
anymore.
On Tuesday night after the second presidential debate,
Longoria shared a “retweet” from one of her 4.4 million–plus followers on the
micro-blogging network. “I have no idea why any woman/minority can vote for
Romney,” the message read. “You have to be stupid to vote for such a
racist/misogynistic tw*t.” (I’m editing the vulgarity for family newspapers,
but the tweet’s foul reference to a woman’s reproductive organs was neither
censored nor disavowed by Longoria on her Twitter timeline.)
On Wednesday morning, the editors at Twitchy.com, my
Twitter curation/aggregation site, captured and saved Longoria’s retweet for posterity.
Conservative minorities and women raised their voices. A representative sample:
Wrote Diana Yellow (@navajochic): “I don’t appreciate u
call’n me stupid. Ur ignorant, selfish and stupid urself! I’m a Romney/Ryan
voter, I’m female and a minority.”
Becky Gonzalez (@nanabec2) tweeted: “You can vote with
your lady parts — I’ll vote with my lady smarts. VOTE ROMNEY!!!”
Melissa (@melissaDiva) responded: “So @EvaLongoria b/c I
am a woman and support @MittRomney I am stupid? Your comment is disgusting and
disrespectful to women. Shame on you.”
Mayelin de Villegas (@mayelinddv) informed the starlet:
“I am Hispanic. I am very informed on all issues. Will be voting for Romney and
proud to say it.”
After Twitchy.com called attention to the Obama campaign
co-chair and “War on Women” propagandist’s backhanded swipe, she tried to cover
her tracks by deleting the message. But Twitter and Twitchy are forever. On
Thursday morning, the panicked actress launched into damage-control mode — and
made matters even worse.
First, she claimed that “twitter [was] bugging out” and
asserted that “there are things in my timeline I didn’t retweet today.”
Longoria then absurdly assured followers that she was under the social-media
hood searching for an imaginary glitch: “Standby trying to fix!” The naked
attempt to channel disgraced Democratic representative Anthony Weiner, who
shamelessly blamed a nonexistent hacker for posting lewd photos of him on
Twitter, flopped among tech-savvy Twitter users.
“Blame it on A) The altitude B) The ‘video’ C) Hillary!”
joked one reader.
“She inherited all her re-tweets from the previous
twitter user,” jibed another.
“She has binders full of excuses,” chimed another.
Writer Derek Hunter mused: “You’ve got to find it amusing
how @evalongoria is ‘trying to fix’ her twitter like she’s writing code or
something.”
Faced with an avalanche of mockery and disbelief,
Longoria finally tossed aside her make-believe monkey wrench and fessed up.
Well, kinda sorta, in that classic crapweasel politican’s way. She tweeted that
she was “sorry if people were offended by retweet” and that “I respect all
Americans.”
“Sorry if.” Give her the award for Worst Performance by a
Self-Destructing Celeb on Social Media. Longoria topped off her faux-pology by
explaining that she was merely trying to create “dialogue” and then pivoted
faster than an Olympic speed skater by protesting that we should all be talking
about “real issues” such as “equal pay, the economy and our health care
choices” instead of “tweets.”
Not so fast there, missy. You should know that Longoria
is guilty of retweeting at least one other crude message bashing Republicans.
Twitchy.com staff noted that on October 11, the night of the vice-presidential
debate, Longoria retweeted this appalling observation from soap-opera star
Nancy Lee Grahn: “Biden is making Paul Ryan his prison b****!” Longoria
retweeted the offensive prison-rape analogy without any censorship or
disapproval whatsoever. And on the campaign trail, Longoria has expressed
similar views disparaging conservative women. In Colorado this July, she
asserted that “there is no way you can vote Republican” if you’re a woman.
The real issue with “dialogue”-seeking Longoria, who
refused to answer any of my questions on Twitter, is that she is a phony
spokeswoman for American women outside the Hollywood-D.C.-Manhattan bubble. She
has unmistakable contempt for women who reject the Obama campaign’s radical
“lady parts” identity politics.
It is not a waste of time to respond to Hollywood hatred
of conservative women and minorities. It is a waste of the First Amendment to
be silent. Longoria, after all, is one of Obama’s highest-profile campaign
co-chairs spearheading femme fear-mongering. She and a bevy of other
like-minded lib Hollywood actresses (including Kate Walsh, Scarlett Johansson,
and Kerry Washington) are flooding swing states to woo independent/undecided
women who could determine this election. Silence is complicity.
For decades, conservative women and minorities had
limited public opportunities to tell the Beautiful People that they didn’t
speak for us. The game has changed. The walls have crumbled. The era of one-way
political monologues from Tinsel Town hypocrites is over. To borrow language
they understand: That’s a wrap. You’ve been schooled.
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