The 2013 Twitchys: The 5 best celebrity Twitter meltdowns

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If you’re looking for people who deleted their embarrassing tweets, head on over to our deleted tweets awards post. Today’s awards are for 2013’s best, unabashed, whole-hog celebrity Twitter meltdowns.

Without further delay, here are Twitchy’s five favorites.

5) Cher may not be very good at grammar, spelling, punctuation, or logic, but her message in this rant came through loud and clear: American citizens who advocate for limited government are morally equivalent to the Islamic terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center buildings.
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386603747822272512
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386659608192110592
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386660774498021376
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386663274332577792
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386680843777089536
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386685982604816384
To her credit she hasn’t deleted those tweets. But if she could turn back time, would she publish them in the first place? Probably!

4)  Actor Alec Baldwin was unhappy about a piece in the Daily Mail suggesting that his wife was busy tweeting during the funeral of James Gandolfini — so unhappy that he called the reporter who wrote the piece a “toxic little queen”:

Someone wrote that my wife was tweeting at a funeral.
Hey. That's not true.
But I'm gonna tweet at your funeral.— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) June 27, 2013
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350438136624582656
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350437849411223553
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350437641004654592
George Stark, you lying little bitch.
I am gonna f%#@ you up.

dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) June 28, 2013
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350443619418767360
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350443812461613056
http://twitter.com/#!/ABFalecbaldwin/status/350444300179484672
He tried to delete his tweets, but he should know by now, that trick just doesn’t work. Twitchy is forever!

3) When George Zimmerman was acquitted, a lot of liberals went off the deep end. Actor Marlon Wayans was one of them:
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356233117373177857
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356233559574458370
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356233883848683521
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356234466928234498
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356235183667687425
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356235996762873857
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356236480378712065
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356238531317858304
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356244478736076801
http://twitter.com/#!/MARLONLWAYANS/status/356246710227435523
2) After Congress rejected Manchin-Toomey gun control legislation in April, this is what model Christine Teigen had to say:
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324661149670977536
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324641137065357312
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324644172617355265
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324645392954306560
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324649548372930560
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324651969023193088
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324652991338672130
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324658225511276544
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324660993970040832
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324662229209346048
Pause. Get some sleep. Resume:
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324845656655134720
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324846922995212288
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324851519008694274
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324853177088344065
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324853673446498304
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324856685409759234
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324860122897727488
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324869810204839936
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324918502030966784
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/324968116176166912
[Update]

An acceptance speech from Christine Teigen:
http://twitter.com/#!/chrissyteigen/status/416982945875120128
1) Cher is the only celeb to win not one but two of Twitchy’s coveted 2013 meltdown awards. Congratulations!

WHO THE FUCK DO THESE TBAG
(DEVIL INCARNATE)MEMBERS OF GOV.THINK THEY R?
PPL R ACTUALLY GOING 2 DIE(cancer trials shut down)&
THEY R REASON— Cher (@cher) October 04, 2013

Im In Europe.PPL HERE,THINK OUR GOV Officials SHOULD B PUT IN JAIL 4 ENDANGERING OUR COUNTRY.
ALSO,A"NO"VOTE ON"DEBT CEILING"
CAN CAUSE— Cher (@cher) October 04, 2013
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/385962354900733952
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/385963620917846016
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/385967508798603264
JOE ? I KNOW U JOE,…YOUVE GOT THE GUTS,EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE!
I Have the UTMOST RESPECT 4U
IS IT THAT HOPELESS ?
Say it Ain't So Joe 💔— Cher (@cher) October 04, 2013
http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/386064354497806336
Get it? She suggests Tea Party officials should be assassinated. When it comes to unhinged Twitter rants, Cher just can’t be beat.

Related:

The 2013 Twitchys: Top 20 deleted tweets of the year

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/12/28/the-2013-twitchys-the-5-best-celebrity-twitter-meltdowns/

George Zimmerman’s latest painting puts prosecutor in harsh spotlight

http://twitter.com/#!/TherealGeorgeZ/status/425800373681799168
George Zimmerman, who recently sold a painting for $100,000 on EBay, has posted his second painting on Twitter through his brother. His subject: Angela Corey, the Florida prosecutor who charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder in the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin.


The painting is patterned after an Associated Press photo depicting the moment at which Corey announced the murder charge against Zimmerman:

angela corey

Zimmerman dedicated the painting to Ronald Thompson, a 65-year-old disabled veteran who is serving time in prison for firing two warning shots into the ground to protect an elderly neighbor from her grandson and three of his friends. His incredible story is summarized by Families Against Mandatory Minimums here:

Thompson was 62-years-old in September 2009 when he visited a friend of his, an elderly woman in Keystone Heights, Florida, at the woman’s daughter’s home. During his visit, his friend’s 17-year-old grandson, who had been violent toward her in the past, came by with three friends, and wanted to go into his mother’s home. Having been instructed by her daughter not to let him into the house, Thompson’s friend refused them entry. Her grandson began yelling and cursing at his grandmother. Events escalated to the point where Mr. Thompson felt his friend was in danger. He grabbed his pistol (for which he had a conceal-carry license) and fired two warning shots into the ground to scare off the 17-year-old.

Thompson was charged with four counts of aggravated assault … Thompson was convicted.

Thompson’s prosecutor: Angela Corey.

Meanwhile, Corey is under fire from liberals for fighting to keep Marissa Alexander in prison. Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot at a wall to scare off her husband whom she felt was threatening her.


Back in 2012, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz accusing Corey of submitting a false affidavit in Zimmerman’s case:

Making use of a quirk of Florida law that gives prosecutors, for any case except first-degree murder, the option of filing an affidavit with the judge instead of going to a grand jury, Corey filed an affidavit that, according to Dershowitz, “willfully and deliberately omitted” crucial exculpatory evidence: namely, that Trayvon Martin was beating George Zimmerman bloody at the time of the fatal gunshot. So Corey avoided a grand jury, where her case likely would not have held water, and then withheld evidence in her affidavit to the judge. “It was a perjurious affidavit,” Dershowitz tells me, and that comes with serious consequences: “Submitting a false affidavit is grounds for disbarment.”

According to Dershowitz, Corey responded to his criticisms by threatening to sue Harvard Law School, get him disbarred, and sue him for slander and libel.

That’s an interesting approach to dealing with critics, no?


Here’s hoping Zimmerman’s painfully poignant artwork provokes more discussion about Corey’s questionable conduct.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/01/23/george-zimmermans-latest-painting-puts-state-attorney-angela-corey-in-harsh-spotlight/