You probably got out in the sun or went for a bike ride. Me? I bullied poor Sarah Palin.
Woke up to Sarah Palin's voice. She's taken up chewing tobacco now cuz LIBRULS or Bloomberg or something. Now seeing upside of oral cancers.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 4, 2013
RWNJ's and their RWNJ blogs have been blowing up my Twitter feed since I tweeted that out in my sleep on Saturday morning. Not my best work: the repetition of the word "now" annoys me, and instead of "Now seeing upside of oral cancers," I wish I had written, "Oral cancer approval ratings spike." But for the dimshits who might make it over to Slog today from Glennbeckistan... here's the standard definition of bullying: "Bullying has to satisfy three criteria: it has to be verbal or physical aggression, repeated over time, involving a power differential." I may have said something nasty about Sarah Palin—a lovely Christian lady who has never in her life said a single nasty thing about anybody—but I didn't bully her. I can't bully her. I pointed that out, which led to soon-to-be classic Twitter exchanges like this:
“@ignatiusgreilly: @fakedansavage so if i call u faggot one time and wish cancer in you, its not really bullying, right?”Nope, it's not.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 4, 2013
And this:
“@snolanmuir: @fakedansavage so being powerless myself, and having never talked 2 u B4, I can call u a hypocritical fag? #justasking”Sure!
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 4, 2013
But these two were my favorite:
@fakedansavage Do you actually think anybody still gives a crap what you think about anything, freakshow?
— Søren Kierkegaard (@WGlibrarian) May 5, 2013
@fakedansavage Also, putting your picture on the front of your own "book" is lame.#FakeHumanBeing
— Søren Kierkegaard (@WGlibrarian) May 5, 2013
Because...