Tworld News: Week of July 8, 2011

Another week of news, another thousands of years worth of tweets. We've handled the filtering:

Thank goodness for the Twitter Town Hall — officially integrating Twitter should relieve the political landscape of its overabundance of grammatically correct sentences and fully-developed thoughts.

Would it kill you people to stop being such innocent toddlers about this verdict?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Debt, Michele Bachmann, Nancy Grace, Rupert Murdoch, Town Hall, Tworld News

Tea Party Suddenly Has Total Change of Heart

I'm confused. Do they mean this as a compliment?

It's funny how fast your opinion about what constitutes "Democracy in action" can change when the idiot screaming behind you gets his news from a different website than you do.

Tags: Fox, Protesters, Tea Party, Town Hall, Wisconsin

Jon Stewart Discovers Obama's Kryptonite

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart discussed President Obama's recent Wall Street town hall meeting, particularly focusing on a one-time supporter of the POTUS who is struggling to maintain her enthusiasm. A CFO, a mother, a veteran and credit-card-less, Jon deemed the woman "Obama's kryptonite." Fortunately, she's since been sealed in lead, so unless she was red kryptonite, The President should recover soon. What we really need to worry about is Obama's symbiote.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Town Hall, Unemployment, Video, Wall Street

From the Pork Barrel: Said vs. Meant

* A useful guide for translating from Teabagger into English.

* So, it turns out there really were 2 million people at the 9/12 march. Give or take 1,930,000.

* Yo, Kanye. I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but TMZ has one of the best audio recordings of Barack Obama calling you a "jackass" of all time.

* Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) to health care protester: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg, it wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."

Tags: 9/12, Barack Obama, California, Health Care, House of Representatives, Kanye West, Pork Barrel, Racism, Tea Party, Town Hall

WINNER Caption Challenge: John McCain's Health Care Town Hall

Submitted by Garret.

Tags: Caption Challenge, Games and Challenges, Health Care, John McCain, Town Hall