How do you know when someone is posting a deliberately outrageous comment on Twitter just to see who will take the bait and give them attention they don’t deserve? When they actively celebrate that validation on Twitter mere hours later.
Case in point: conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza, currently serving eight months in a “community confinement center” along with five years probation for violating campaign finance laws, who was bored enough to tweet these comments about President Barack Obama’s silly BuzzFeed video today, nearly a week after it first appeared online:
YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO…Watch this vulgar man show his stuff, while America cowers in embarrassment pic.twitter.com/C9yLG4QoOK
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 18, 2015
Just in case anyone took that the wrong way, he followed it up with:
I know Obama wasn't actually raised in a ghetto–I'm using the term metaphorically, to suggest his unpresidential conduct
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 18, 2015
TRANSLATING FOR OBAMA GROUPIES: A guy without class doesn't become a classy guy, even when he's in the White House
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 18, 2015
Then, when Talking Points Memo highlighted his tweet in a blog post, D’Souza quickly tweeted a link to his followers (though failed to accurately type @TPM’s Twitter handle):
.@talkingpointsmemo Seems like my tweet has struck a nerve! http://t.co/sdLlNXRSNJ
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 18, 2015
Of course, this isn’t the first time D’Souza has betrayed the fact that he only tweets such blatantly offensive comments about the president to boost his own profile. Just a few months ago, one of his hilarious jokes about “OBOLA” made the pages of Mediaite.
He promptly thanked us for shining some extra light on it:
.@Mediaite I love it when my tweets score a direct hit, measured by the intensity of shrieking on the left
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 6, 2014
As much as I would like to say this site will no longer be playing into this twisted game, as D’Souza — and Donald Trump, and Sarah Palin, etc. — have duly demonstrated, some comments are just too irresistible to ignore.
UPDATE — 1:50 p.m. ET: Further proof:
.@mediaite "Racism" in this context is utterly meaningless & conveys nothing more than: we liberals are offended! http://t.co/U8wF1OThpi
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 18, 2015
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