Joe Wilson has apparently hired a “professional Tweeter”. Whatever the hell that means. (Perhaps Eric Cantor could have used one of those, so that he could have paid attention to Obama’s speech instead of Blackberrying the whole time.)
Set aside for now the horrible idea that there might actually be people who get paid to use Twitter. I’ve long been baffled by the conservative movement’s complete obsession with Twitter, as if it is a panacea for all manner of self-inflicted wounds. Twitter has its uses (…sort of), but hiring someone else to Tweet on your behalf eliminates the two-way communication aspect of Twitter, effectively reducing your feed to a series of press releases, except very short and missing key vowels.
I don’t understand at all what tweeting is supposed to accomplish for Joe Wilson. The cynic in me says it’s just a way for him to constantly remind his followers to please give him money (or rather, “plz send $$ #tcot”). But even if a Twitter feed might help him push back against the onslaught of attacks from horrible fire-breathing liberals, does he really need a professional to help him? Even if he’s too dumb to figure out how a keyboard works, surely one of his staffers could do it for him?