Sarah Palin Knocks Twitter, Calls It 'Little Twittering Thing'

At a speech before Republican Party activists in Arkansas yesterday, Sarah Palin took a jab at Twitter.

According to CBS News, the former Alaska governor was asked what she considered to be the biggest threat to America today, prompting several in the crowd to call out, 'Obama!'

The audience laughed, and Palin spoke up.

'See, they said that, I didn't,' she said, reports CBS. 'Just you watch now, too, because somebody will be here with their little Twittering thing, and it's going to be on the Internet any minute now.'

Palin's didn't elaborate on why she takes issue with the 'little Twittering thing,' but the knock came as something of a surprise since the ex-governor is an avid social media user herself.

In addition to regularly posting blogs and commentary to Facebook, Palin is a habitual Twitter user--she tweets from @SaraPalinUSA--who is notorious for maxing out the 140 character limit with posts such as the following:

Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng

We wonder: will Palin take to Buzz?

(via ThinkProgress)

Comments

[Opus Loki]

02:39 AM on 03/02/2010

I can't say that I find where she knocked twitter. She just made a comment about someone using it. I am no fan of this lady but this wasn't even a story.

[Badgirl]

11:31 AM on 02/26/2010

an avid twitter... she puts the "twit" in twitter..

[LeeCalif]

09:00 PM on 02/21/2010

This article brought up a great point on Palin's being used and usefulness to the GOP and when it's alllll overrrrrr ..........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-myss/the-republican-strategy-c_b_467728.html

[seedoubleyou]

11:01 PM on 02/20/2010

Good grief, could we please stop reporting on everything this crybaby says?

[GerryS]

08:04 PM on 02/20/2010

she looks pizzed,

wonder what Toad did----------

[PirateRo]

06:56 PM on 02/20/2010

She'd be a lot more effective with a big red nose, orange hair and exploding shoes.

So would more conservatives.

This is just seriously disgusting. Who CARES about this woman?

[1murillo]

04:54 PM on 02/20/2010

However it is that Palin knocks twitter, she knows how to attract attention. The Palin brand is still popular with some conservatives.
Palin is bad for America. She's also an extremely poor politician. But she knows enough to stay out of the 2012 race (it's too much concentrated work; Palin forbid that she wins).
The image of a bull in a china shop is apt: she's impossible to ignore and she'll destroy everything she touches. As conservatives look for another leader they rely on her (and Cheney, Gingrich, Barbour), but even they'll tire of her.

[iamvalid]

02:57 PM on 02/20/2010

BEHOLD! I give you the hope and dreams of the republican party.

[mrmikes]

08:08 AM on 02/20/2010

Alternate headline: Twit mocks Twitter.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

06:28 AM on 02/20/2010

She's even a hypocrite about this. Wow. She sounds like an airhead with that Twitter lingo. I have a twitter, and I refuse to do that. I'm 19 years old. She's in her 40s :|

[Shelly1970]

02:19 PM on 02/19/2010

This shows she doesn't write her own "tweets".

[GerryS]

02:08 PM on 02/19/2010

bible spice looks angry in that photo-

[annimoss]

02:02 PM on 02/19/2010

Sarah go home and take care of Trig.

[truerunner]

01:35 PM on 02/19/2010

I seriously think Sara needs an adult literacy course, but you know, those elites out there with their "diplomas" and their "opposition to the butchery of the English language," and their "correct sentence structure," and their "IQ's above 70" represents everything Palinism is out to abolish (and thingy's).

I swear, Sara is the Valley Girls meets Capitan Ahab.

[Plurabelle06]

01:34 PM on 02/19/2010

Ions? Does Palin mean eons? She doesn't even understand that previous climate changes were due to tilts of the Earth, but the current warming trend is not. She couldn't make it past round 1 of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.

[14q32]

07:07 PM on 02/20/2010

Thanks, Plurabelle. "Ions" had me scratching my head, too.