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kibbled		2009-04-17 02:26:37 PM

bluorangefyre: LeChevalier: Well it's either keep up with this Twitter BS or have to start covering the Tea Parties. It's retarded and un-newsworthy but if I hear another reference to "10s of thousands of people," and "grassroots movements," I'm gonna scream. I got your movement right here, pal. I know you agree with me on this one.

Maybe we on Fark should start a grassroots movement to stop all these so-called 'grassroots movements'. :) They're becoming too clichéd to where they're not a grassroot movement anymore.

We should get Coke to sponsor it.

PhotoCindy		2009-04-17 02:29:46 PM

Does this mean he'll co-sign on that Ferrari loan for me? I feel so close to him now...

Golden_Eternity		2009-04-17 02:41:07 PM

QueenOfHearts: Who?

CNN is a cable news network. They have lots of stories about how the sky is blue or it being dangerous to drink draino.

/glad I could help

mr_bunny		2009-04-17 02:45:50 PM

I weep for mankind.

therhinodep		2009-04-17 02:47:16 PM

Susan Roesgen is a big Twatter^TM

Digital Communist		2009-04-17 02:54:59 PM

moothemagiccow: I don't know who ever said CNN's news. No cable network gets close.

Even in contrast to FOX News, CNN is still a joke. I've never had the chance to watch MSNBC, but I'm guessing it's not much better.

Frontline and various other public broadcasting programs are the last vestiges of real journalism in North America.

A Tout Le Monde		2009-04-17 03:01:16 PM

I was going to vote for CNN (because I don't care for Ashton), but then I remembered that I don't use twitter and hopefully never will.

vol1805		2009-04-17 03:04:17 PM

and i should give a shiat why???????

that is not dems ass either

both attention whores

mr.fisher		2009-04-17 03:06:24 PM

I think it is really funny that the story about this on FoxNews.com was "C-List actor has more friends than CNN" or something to that effect. It seems theyve since changed it.

jabbedxorz		2009-04-17 03:06:43 PM

Its a shame the twitter admins only banned users that were using scripts to subscribed to basementdad and not the ones that were scribing for the 2 douches.

Finger51		2009-04-17 03:19:45 PM

Looks like a penguin to me!

RevBigfoot		2009-04-17 03:22:30 PM

I have to admit, I have a twitter account. I feel ashamed to say it. But in my defense, I only started it so I could let people know when I was pooping thus showing everyone that I thought the whole thing was a big pile of crap. I'm kind of amazed that I got 20 people to follow me.

Mongo cut wood		2009-04-17 03:23:51 PM

Who here considers liberal media sources like CNN, ABC, CBS as news media? Especially now since they refuse to report on anything that might upset the Obama worshippers.

Mongo cut wood		2009-04-17 03:25:13 PM

Oooops left out MSNBC, the media source who considers 13% unemployment as a Major Victory for the Obama Administration.

/face palm

sniderman		2009-04-17 03:32:31 PM

/hotter n' shiat

SR_NightBane		2009-04-17 03:34:17 PM

Mongo cut wood: Who here considers liberal media sources like CNN, ABC, CBS as news media? Especially now since they refuse to report on anything that might upset the Obama worshippers.

No
Mongo cut wood: Oooops left out MSNBC, the media source who considers 13% unemployment as a Major Victory for the Obama Administration.

/face palm

Don't worry, we all wanna forget about MSNBC, the Marxist, Socialist News Broadcast Corporation.

cornuts		2009-04-17 03:36:17 PM

ANON Basement dad > all

burncheese		2009-04-17 03:51:25 PM

ZeroCorpse: I love the poll, too. "Do you use Twitter?"

6% YES
64% NO
30% What's Twitter?

Pretty much THIS.

Yeah, that's me somewhere in that 30% there. I had never heard of twitter until a few weeks ago and all of a sudden I hear about it all the time. What the hell is it and where did it come from?

Bleck		2009-04-17 03:58:23 PM

Ashton Kutcher = douche personified
Twitter = douche bag multipler/emitter

Ashton Kutcher on Twitter = infinite douchiness

Bleck		2009-04-17 04:01:08 PM

SR_NightBane		2009-04-17 04:05:04 PM

Bleck: Mongo cut wood: Who here considers liberal media sources like CNN, ABC, CBS as news media? Especially now since they refuse to report on anything that might upset the Obama worshippers.

I am guessing more people than those that think Fox News is legit.

Which perfectly explains why Fox News kick the everloving crap out of any and all of them in the ratings of their news programs.

Samsquantch		2009-04-17 04:09:56 PM

The comments on the story were about 30 to 1 of the "this is news how?" variety, so CNN pulled them.

JohnnyDanger		2009-04-17 04:10:26 PM

Kutcher is a useless, untalented, cumsock. I suspect this will mark the 'peak' of his career. What was the movie he was in where the director/producers had to stop filming a quarter of the way through and get him acting lessons?

CNN seems to strive everyday to be useless.

OneFretAway		2009-04-17 04:17:50 PM

Dimndgal1: Now that CNN and PerezHilton have become almost interchangeable, I will be in the corner sucking my thumb and crying and recalling days gone by when news was actually newsworthy

/Breaking news?
//Seriously???

Yeah - I got this as a breaking news alert around 1 am yesterday. Someone within the CNN "news" department decided that this was so important that people could not wait until morning to learn this. I've never had a lot of regard for CNN, but my respect for them just hit the floor.

I didn't think it was possible for them to get more ridiculous than the hologram experience from last year. I guess I didn't give them sufficient credit.

mistmonster		2009-04-17 04:28:30 PM

Glad you guys reminded me of this so I would finally go unsubscribe from the stupidest breaking news alerts I have ever heard of. Thanks again fark!

QueenOfHearts		2009-04-17 04:29:47 PM

Golden_Eternity: QueenOfHearts: Who?

CNN is a cable news network. They have lots of stories about how the sky is blue or it being dangerous to drink draino.

/glad I could help

Huh. TMYK.

OneFretAway		2009-04-17 04:55:52 PM

mistmonster: Glad you guys reminded me of this so I would finally go unsubscribe from the stupidest breaking news alerts I have ever heard of. Thanks again fark!

I just did the same thing.

Since this is Fark, someone will remember a Bloom County comic where an outraged subscriber chews out Milo Bloom, cancels her subscription and hangs up on him.

Milo turns around and announced to the newsroom: "MRS CAVENDISH HAS LOWERED THE BOOM!"

Dimndgal1		2009-04-17 04:59:33 PM

OneFretAway:

I didn't think it was possible for them to get more ridiculous than the hologram experience from last year. I guess I didn't give them sufficient credit.

You're saying the holograms didn't make you think CNN had managed to unit Trekkies and political pundits?!

/Decision 2008: Teleporting from our studio to your house

Funk Brothers		2009-04-17 05:07:13 PM

I cannot believe that basementdad did not hit one million viewers before Ashton Kutcher did.

BTW, what has he done that was good in the last few years?

cwolf20		2009-04-17 05:39:33 PM

In other news, CNN thinks they have friends?

jerusalem		2009-04-17 06:10:17 PM

Funk Brothers: I cannot believe that basementdad did not hit one million viewers before Ashton Kutcher did.

farm4.static.flickr.com

I friggan tried before they shut us out.

Total waste of time but it was pretty funny!

dramatools		2009-04-17 06:11:01 PM

Overfiend		2009-04-17 06:16:10 PM

Another step towards obscurity CNN. Why have you forsaken me?

Also shame on Fark for front paging this. Let's hear about Susan Boyle!

LeatherPenguin		2009-04-17 06:32:35 PM

Finger51: Looks like a penguin to me!

HEY NOW!

cmb53208		2009-04-17 08:37:43 PM

Is there anything dunber than twitter? Oh wait, yeah Ashton Kutcher

burncheese		2009-04-17 09:03:48 PM

cmb53208: Is there anything dunber than twitter?

cmb53208, perhaps?

/jk, ;)

strathmeyer		2009-04-17 09:36:07 PM

m1ke: Ashton Kutcher is a douchebag of the highest level.

Your well thought out argument has surely changed this gentleman's opinion on the matter.

InaneInTheMembrane		2009-04-17 11:04:27 PM

A twitter story, quick someone call leo laporte.

HolyGeekboy		2009-04-17 11:28:50 PM

m1ke: Ashton Kutcher is a douchebag of the highest level.

A douchebag who just donated $100,000 to buy sleeping nets to help prevent malaria.

What did you do to change the world today?

/Think he's a shiatty actor, but whatever...

bachdog		2009-04-18 12:45:53 AM

Facebook has "friends"
Twitter has "followers"

If malaria were eradicated and didn't account for millions of deaths per year, certain populations would explode; if not for malaria, Africa and South America would be as populous as China and India

Malaria keeps a check on the population. The mosquito laser (new window) could change that tho

Edge.bot		2009-04-18 05:40:32 AM

ashton who?

karst		2009-04-18 08:18:01 AM

hmmm
step 1 sign up on twitter to follow some local wealthier type person. Step 2 Wait for tweets about his/her travels somewhere so you can rob them.
step 3 profit?

cmb53208		2009-04-18 06:22:21 PM

burncheese: cmb53208: Is there anything dunber than twitter?

cmb53208, perhaps?

/jk, ;)

Aw shiat

/Regardless of my keyboarding, Twitter is farking stupid

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