Soaring heights of hilarity today as political blogger, journalist and definite Iranian Yashar Ali retweets Howard Kurtz in what initially appeared to be a failed attempt at sock puppeting….
Deleted my Howie Kurtz Tweet because it was clearly a mistake…. https://t.co/1cWYr85TXJ
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 28, 2018
…And crashing lows when it transpires he’s just really, really bad at this whole Twitter thing.
Folks this is not a sock puppet thing he's literally just bad at replying to tweets. pic.twitter.com/TKWlsZbIxc
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 28, 2018
As Michael Gertz helpfully pointed out.
To his credit, as soon as the mistake was realized, Mr. Ali did the only honorable thing and admitted he was the one in the wrong. The offending tweet has been deleted.
Deleted my Howie Kurtz Tweet because it was clearly a mistake…. https://t.co/1cWYr85TXJ
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 28, 2018
And in a rare show of humanity The Internet was curiously forgiving…
https://twitter.com/LiquidRitz/status/957742346543616006
Although it remains to be seen how far this will go to repairing the damage, and this doesn’t change how funny it is that it’s 2018 and the host of ‘Media Buzz’ can’t retweet properly. There’s a ‘retweet’ button for Christ’s sake. HOWARD.
