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'Tornado clearly targets conservatives': Daily Show creator faces backlash over insensitive tweet
Daily Mail ^ | May, 21, 2013 | Mail Online

Posted on 05/21/2013 5:43:45 AM PDT by Fullclip

She thought she was making a topical political joke, but a co-creator of ‘The Daily Show’ managed to enrage many of her followers after tweeting joke about the Oklahoma tornado’s political motivations.

‘This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’ wrote comedian Lizz Winstead, in a tweet, around 3:30 Monday afternoon.

The tweet was an apparent attempt at using the occasion of the May 20 twister to comment on the scandal currently plaguing the IRS and Obama administration.

Winstead, co-creator and former head writer for ‘The Daily Show,’ promptly received a stream of angry responses to her tweet.

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User @swashamokc wrote, ‘As an Oklahoman, I don’t think this was something that would result in my continuing to follow you.’

An unrepentant Winstead responded, ‘If its not OK to YOU for me to combine news stories to point out hypocrisy AND Im not making fun of victims u shld Unfollow.’

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comedycentral; dailyshow; pos; redstates; rural; winstead
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To: Fullclip

Actually when it comes to offensive I don’t even have to guess that any second now Al Gore will blame this tornado on gorebull warming.


21 posted on 05/21/2013 6:07:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Fullclip
Her defense is that she was just making a “topical” joke? Great! Let's hear the next one Lizz.

Where's the joke about how those girls who were held captive, tortured and raped for years in Chicago must be Republicans?

Or how the kids who were shot in Connecticut were from Republican families?

22 posted on 05/21/2013 6:13:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Fullclip

insensitive?

it was downright gloating


23 posted on 05/21/2013 6:15:01 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Fullclip
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24 posted on 05/21/2013 6:17:36 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Fullclip

Therefore, by syllogism based upon this “comedian”, what does that make Sandy Hook?


25 posted on 05/21/2013 6:19:05 AM PDT by Obadiah (High speed, low drag.)
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To: Fullclip

These people are absolutely insane.


26 posted on 05/21/2013 6:25:12 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Fullclip

What about Sandy... she was to hit the Carolinas and smashed into blue blue blue... so miss unfunny hate monger... how do you explain Sandy... whore for satan?


27 posted on 05/21/2013 6:33:09 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Common Sense 101

Love your post, but they will indeed be eradicated eventually, the pendulum will swing back and swing back hard, they have aligned themselves with the enemy and are to dumb or blinded by liberal ignorance to see that other groups that vote with them on issues are really just using the democratic political party as a means to an end, every liberal cause will come to an abrupt halt.


28 posted on 05/21/2013 6:35:09 AM PDT by Sophia777
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To: Fullclip

WTF?!

‘Leave lizz winstead alone,’ tweeted notorious conservative commentator Glen Beck on Monday night. ‘Clearly bad joke. How many of us has made a joke we wished we could take back?She has to feel awful.#castfirststone.’

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328232/Oklahoma-tornado-Daily-Show-creator-Lizz-Winstead-faces-backlash-insensitive-tweet.html#ixzz2TvzAkz1B


29 posted on 05/21/2013 6:39:59 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Common Sense 101

PRECISELY!!!


30 posted on 05/21/2013 6:50:57 AM PDT by caprock
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To: Fullclip

Another one goes on the list. Serious.


31 posted on 05/21/2013 6:53:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: treetopsandroofs
How many of us has made a joke we wished we could take back?

I can safely say I've never joked about people getting killed, either in a natural disaster or otherwise.

32 posted on 05/21/2013 6:53:16 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Fullclip

Judgment Day will target the ungodly....and they won’t be laughing then.


33 posted on 05/21/2013 6:53:30 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 11th Commandment

I almost think the IRS political targeting is just the beginning, if obama isn’t impeached over this, we given them the green light to take it up one more notch. Withthe end being the cattle cars to a destination unknown.


34 posted on 05/21/2013 6:53:41 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Huskrrrr

Here is the deal- The deaths of the faithful are valuable to the Lord. IF this is the wrath that the Lord inflicts on the faithful, Psalms 116:15 (who know how to find blessings in turmoil) then what does the wrath look like for the people the Lord wishes to take to their knees?

We are not promised an easy life on Earth, as faithful believers in Jesus. We are promised that it will be worth the sufferings.

I would be really careful of mocking the Lord or his faithful children, at a time like this.

But, hey- that’s me. People have been warned to not learn on our own understanding.


35 posted on 05/21/2013 6:56:38 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: treetopsandroofs
‘Leave lizz winstead alone,’ tweeted notorious conservative commentator Glen Beck on Monday night. ‘Clearly bad joke. How many of us has made a joke we wished we could take back?She has to feel awful.#castfirststone'

Glenn, you naive putz, the unrepentant bitch doubled-down in subsequent posts.

She is evil, delights in the death of the infants of conservative parents, and she is proud of it.

36 posted on 05/21/2013 6:59:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Fullclip

How about this interpretation, Liz:

Only the Antichrist would inflict death and destruction on innocent humans for his own gain. Think of how Hurricane Sandy swayed some into voting for a “good leader” right before the election. Now, think of how this horrific tragedy has bumped Obama and his scandals off the news.
(I so wish I had that photo of the Obama look-alike devil from the miniseries to insert here).


37 posted on 05/21/2013 7:03:49 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Fullclip

What a piece of human excrement.


38 posted on 05/21/2013 7:11:58 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: Fullclip


39 posted on 05/21/2013 7:39:42 AM PDT by Casie (democrats destroy)
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To: Fullclip

This wo-person would be funnier in a North Korean prison camp. What a turd! She needs to go now—with her own kind.


40 posted on 05/21/2013 7:45:37 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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