Today, political types were focused on Cory Booker’s Bain brouhaha, President Obama’s throwing arm and the New Republic‘s new editor. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail.
RNC Deputy Communications Director Tim Miller tried to make a Cory Booker meme.
End you day with the @CoryBooker Kitteh, my most clicked twitter link of the month by 7-fold -- goo.gl/kJWcb
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Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 21, 2012
The Atlantic’s Associate Editor Matt O’Brien tried to rank the Cory Booker flap among this year’s other campaign controversies.
Where does this Cory Booker flap rank on things that will affect voters? I put it somewhere between Hilary Rosen and Etch-A-Sketch.
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Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) May 21, 2012
The Drudge Report had an especially articulate response to the Bain brouhaha.
OOOOOOO NOOOOOO drudge.tw/LvQjoG
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Drudge Report (@Drudge_Report) May 21, 2012
The White House showed off President Obama’s football skills.
Photo of the Day: President Obama throws a football @soldierfield after the @NATO dinner in Chicago: http://t.co/tFyihpKx
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The White House (@whitehouse) May 21, 2012
Salon’s Alex Pareene parsed the latest bit of D.C. media news.
Frank Foer back at TNR is like Randy Moss back on the Vikings for people who care about weird things
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Alex Pareene (@pareene) May 21, 2012
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