I can't spell but buy my book!
Nelson Mandela - the ultimate exponent of the corageous state
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 5, 2013
It's all about me!
Nelson Mandela: a noble reminder that those declared "criminals" by an unjust society are often the most just.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 6, 2013
Vote Labour!
If media want to focus on MPs who REALLY helped free Nelson Mandela, we should see lots of Bob Hughes/Dick Caborn/Neil Kinnock/Peter Hain
— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) December 5, 2013
I'm a professional comedian!
Nelson Mandeada
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) December 5, 2013
I can use Google!
So the real Nelson Mandela isn't lost, here he is in his own words: http://t.co/yAo0cQc8eg (via @heathertal)
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) December 5, 2013
Fire up the outrage bus!
Wow. Odious Rod Liddle says BBC tribute to Mandela is "self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt" http://t.co/5XaAT3ojnj
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) December 5, 2013
Look, it's the outrage bus! Climb aboard!
Why this, @spectator? "I’m sorry Nelson Mandela is dead... But BBC, give it a bloody break, will you?" http://t.co/RGPQJLNNPZ
— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) December 5, 2013
I'm a nobody but it's all about me...
An inspiration from afar, to see Nelson #Mandela in person, as I once did at LSE, was a truly unforgettable experience. A truly great leader
— Martin McKee (@martinmckee) December 5, 2013
Right-wingers are scum!
I hope all the right-wing papers lauding Mandela tonight will reprint what they said about him when he was behind bars.
— Johann Hari (@johannhari101) December 5, 2013
He loved the Tories!
After Thatcher left office, Mandela continued to make a point of seeing her to thank her for the role she had played.
http://t.co/cz7IMhFxQQ
— Richard Calhoun (@richardcalhoun) December 5, 2013
No, he loved Labour!
Nelson Mandela speaks to Labour's Annual Conference in 2000 via @FurlongA http://t.co/cH27Nv9MgE
— Tweet4Labour (@Tweet4Labour) December 5, 2013
Tories hated him!
Both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's govts opposed sanctions against Apartheid South Africa.
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) December 5, 2013
What?! He was a damned commie!
The Mandela admired in 1979 by the hard-line Marxist Barack Obama was the communist Mandela sitting in jail for acts of terrorist violence.
— TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) December 5, 2013
I haven't read that much about him!
Mandela fought for freedom, fought for equality, fought for justice, fought for love, fought for life. For that they called him terrorist.
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) December 5, 2013
Humblebrag!
Don't think Mandela liked me much. On his first post release trip to UK I asked him if he was going to divorce Winnie.
— Adam Boulton (@adamboultonSKY) December 5, 2013
Hey! Remember me?
One of the few 'famous people' pictures in my office. First meeting with Mandela, when a journalist pic.twitter.com/cXPnHfa3EA
— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) December 5, 2013
Seriously, he was a massive socialist!
FROM ME: Communist Icon Nelson Mandela Dead at 95 http://t.co/QpTOPhn5be via @PJMedia_com #tcot
— David Swindle (@DaveSwindle) December 5, 2013
So am I, that's why I like him!
Socialist. Military resistance leader. Anti -racist fighter. Reached out to those who were not. Personified hope. #Mandela
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) December 5, 2013
My roof's blown off!
The complete lack of storm news on @bbcnews and @itvnews 10 pm bulletins was a disgrace.
— Jane (@pickandming) December 5, 2013
Restart the outrage bus!
Go home, Rod Liddle, you're an idiot http://t.co/0R6qAzL7Fa
— Carl Packman (@CarlPackman) December 5, 2013
Free Nelson Mandela!
Good idea from @blairmcdougall. Why don't we make The Specials Free Nelson Mandela Xmas No 1
— John Prescott (@johnprescott) December 5, 2013
Tenuous humblebrag!
Ronald Reagan's 1986 speech about apartheid South Africa, 9 days before my 18th birthday, is interesting: http://t.co/EjtZJd0xBq
— Matt Welch (@mleewelch) December 5, 2013
Let's gets things in perspective...
In one moment you learn of the death and Nelson Mandela and the petty squabbling of lesser politicians fades from your mind
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 5, 2013
(Murphy's very next tweet...)
“@tehard: @Ed_Miliband . You must replace Ed Balls with Chris Leslie. Balls performance abysmal today.” If is to be done Owen Smith pls
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 5, 2013
I said, do you remember ME?
He made the hair on your neck stand to attention. #mandela pic.twitter.com/dhLsNkM342
— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) December 5, 2013
Aaaaaaand, relax...
Bonzai is 18 years old! pic.twitter.com/OBRam6W73N
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) December 5, 2013
5 comments:
You missed off the Paris Hilton tweet where she confuses Mandela with Martin Luther King.
You mean, "You missed off the photoshopped tweet where someone used a man's death to make a joke about Paris Hilton."
A good day for the BBC - not having to run with yesterday's Ed Balls-up.
It's always fun to imagine, in this kind of overblown Trauerfest what the departed one would reciprocate.
"Courageous State? Huh?"
"Alistair? Did I? Fancy!"
and so on...
"One minute of secondhand smoke impairs functioning of arteries" - Stan G latest missive.
How long before the one minute heart attack?
I don't know why they don't go for a sub second heart attack. Stan is sitting in a restaurant and sees a smoker about to light up and his arteries constrict ... instant death.
Oh, has he died? Why didn't someone mention this?
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