After starting investigations into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, The IRS and other ?scandals,? it looks like it’s time someone started a committee to investigate Darrell Issa’s Twitter account. ?Last Friday Issa started a series of tweets to commemorate Veteran’s Day. ?The campaign was titled?#AmericaVets and Issa invited others to tweet him pictures of their relatives who have served and he would retweet them in order to celebrate veterans and their service.
Mr. Issa kicked the campaign off by tweeting a picture of himself from 1975 (replete with 70’s porn mustache) when he was in jump school at Ft. Benning with the message:
?“Jump school at Ft Benning, 1975. Tweet your vet photos with #AmericasVets to celebrate Veterans Day! #FlashbackFriday,?
As the old saying goes, ‘be careful what you wish for because you might just get it,’ because the tweets starting coming in. ?Unfortunately Mr. Issa (or whoever is managing his Twitter account) was so giddy over the amount of responses, they didn’t take a moment to actually examine them. ?Otherwise they would have certainly noticed a photograph of Nazi and Hitler’s man in charge of the ‘Final Solution’ (i.e, the extermination of the Jews) Heinrich Himmler that was tweeted to Issa with the message:
“@DarrellIssa My late grandfather who served in the European theater in WWII?#AmericaVets.?
While you think that it’s entirely possible that an internet prankster could sneak this through, it wouldn’t explain how they missed this tweet featuring JFK killer Lee Harvey Oswald with the message:
??My uncle Lee in 1956.?
Other tweets included ‘tributes’ to veterans Timothy McVeigh, the American terrorist that was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing and?convicted My Lai massacre war criminal William Calley.
Interestingly, once these prank tweets were discovered by Issa’s office, a staffer removed the offending images except for the one tweet of convicted My Lai massacre war criminal William Calley which may indicate that Issa doesn’t consider William Calley as a criminal or murderer even though he was convicted of the crime.
Perhaps if Issa wasn’t in such a rush to show off his allegiance to the troops, he wouldn’t have embarrassed himself and disrespected them. ?Then of course, Issa, being a convicted criminal himself, may have a lower threshold of embarrassment than his non-criminal counterparts in the House of Representatives.
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