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The Westboro Baptist Church follows Mary Fallin on Twitter…
Dec 19
2012
Because of their close proximity to Oklahoma, we get our fair share of Westboro Baptist Church “protests” here in the Sooner state. Since about 2009, our general policy at TLO has been to ignore the hate group. They do what they do for publicity and to create controversy, and by giving them the attention they crave and letting their actions upset you, you’re basically falling into their trap and letting them win. As Dave Morris’ hot wife would say, they’re a more hateful, sick and religious version of us.
Anyway, consider this post a one-time exception to our policy. Earlier this week, Westboro’s Twitter account was hijacked by the hacker group Anonymous. The hacktivists did things like post the personal information of Westboro members and link to a petition to have the church named a hate group. This heroic act by Anonymous alerted us to a couple of strange facts.
1. The Westboro Baptist Church (for some reason) has over 3,000 Twitter followers.
2. The Westboro Baptist Church follows 6 people on Twitter and (for some reason) one of them is Mary Fallin.
Here’s a screen shot:
What an exclusive club! At least we’re not the only people who see a lot of similarities between Sarah Palin and Mary Fallin.
Anyway, here’s a bit of advice for Mary Fallin and her handlers: block the Westboro Baptist Church from following you on Twitter!!!
I know you don’t condone or support any part of what they do — and they are following you and you’re not following them — but it still makes you and our state look bad when people see that. They’ll think we’re a crazy state populated by insane socially conservative religious zealots. Okay, maybe we’re already kind of like that, but we don’t need to reinforce the negative stereotype.
I think the twitter description for the lost ogle NEEDS to be “crying in the wilderness in the last of all days” These people are failures at humanity!
Really? I don’t like MF either but would you like it being called out for everyone to see if you had a nut following you? She has no control over this and this one’s a little over the top, guys.
Did you even read the article?
Of course not, if you do that you can’t rush to judgement and post a “you’re over the top” comment.
I say give MF a break. She hasn’t had time to check her twitter followers because she is too busy not providing access to the numerous open record requests she has received. The woman has her priorities!
Not really that big of a deal, since the more active Twitter account for the gov is @GovMaryFallin
That said, I hope they all get run over by a hearse and left to rot on the pavement, as they are nothing more roadside trash…
I personally feel like a concerted effort should be made to start pronouncing Mary Fallin’s last name so it sounds more like Sarah Palin’s last name.
+1
+2
Yep. I’m in…+3.
Where in Christianity is hate-mongering an involved practice? What are Fred Phelps and the WBC afraid of anyhow? Rainbows? Unicorns? A flaming pink queer apocalypse? I attempted to address this with a portrait of the good reverend on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/03/fred-phelps-and-westboro-baptist-church.html Drop in and let me know what you think!
If the world ends, I hope it ends with a flaming pink queer apocalypse!
With lots of glitter. Oh god, with LOTS of glitter!
They don’t follow CNN or some of the other outlets??! They must really be sticklers for the ” fair & balanced”.
Haters seeking out haters.
Following 6 people and one is the campaign for Mary Fallin for Governor? Here is an interesting theory, the person who set up the twitter account for Westboro also set up Mary’s Twitter account and wanted to give Mary an extra follower. Or possibly the person has a crush on Mary, and knew that since he could never be one of her “drivers” this was as close to Mary as he could ever get.
There is some strange connection here, but of course it will never be discovered, because we all just love Mary so much.
Go to their profile now. The “church” is now only following five people. Did Fallin’s people see this post and block them?