{"id":51807,"date":"2019-10-19T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51807"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:55:53","slug":"remy-horrifying-tweets-resurface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/remy-horrifying-tweets-resurface\/","title":{"rendered":"Remy: Horrifying Tweets Resurface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mpHiDsnqOSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Oct 2019<\/p>\n<p>Remy returns to the news desk to bring you what passes for journalism these days.<\/p>\n<p>Written and Performed by Remy.<br \/>\nMusic tracks mastered by Ben Karlstrom.<br \/>\nProduced and Edited by Austin Bragg.<\/p>\n<p>LYRICS:<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau denies the report. Ed?<br \/>\nA rough week for Canada&#8217;s first black prime minister. Thanks, Tim.<\/p>\n<p>A problem long posed, now finally an answer<br \/>\nA cure has been found to a rare form of cancer.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll tell you who found it, what he thinks this means,<br \/>\nAnd dig up some tweets from his early teens.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the Good Samaritan, whose quickness and breadth<br \/>\nSaved a family of four from a fiery death.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll ask how he did it, how he made it in time,<br \/>\nAnd why he tweeted this back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Ed? Yes, Tim. Forgive the defiance<br \/>\nBut I think we should focus on the news part, the science<br \/>\nAnd not what they tweeted back when they were 10<br \/>\nThe science, hmm. I&#8217;ll try it again.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists have unearthed a series of tweets<br \/>\nMade by this local hero when he was 13.<br \/>\nWill this middle-school tweet soon mean his demise?<br \/>\nOur report might just win the Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize? In what? Scrolling down?<br \/>\nWe found immature things immature people wrote down.<br \/>\nOur country&#8217;s at war and that&#8217;s the story we sought?<br \/>\nWar coverage, yes\u2014I&#8217;ll give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>This Navy SEAL unit is now under fire<br \/>\nFor a series of tweets, we&#8217;ll take our magnifier<br \/>\nAnd pay no attention to how their recent life&#8217;s been<br \/>\nAnd tell you what you should think that says about them.<\/p>\n<p>Says about them? What&#8217;s it say about us?<br \/>\nThat the first thing we do after someone&#8217;s discussed<br \/>\nIs comb through their childhood looking for dirt.<br \/>\nOK, I can do this, I assure you I&#8217;m cured.<\/p>\n<p>Well she&#8217;s the first woman to serve on the board<br \/>\nOf our town&#8217;s city council\u2014and she just signed an accord.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll comb through the details of what she did write<br \/>\nAnd through years of her tweets in hopes of wrecking her life.<\/p>\n<p>OK, see, I hate this, this is just what we do<br \/>\nMake things controversial for clicks and for views.<br \/>\nWhen we&#8217;re covering news, should our first thought each time<br \/>\nBe &#8220;Let&#8217;s find what they tweeted back when they were nine&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, millions can now walk thanks to his prosthesis<br \/>\nBut a hateful hand signal when he was a fetus<br \/>\nLeads many to now question what he promotes.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll toss him in a well and see if he floats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-19-Remy-Horrifying-Tweets-Resurface.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published 17 Oct 2019 Remy returns to the news desk to bring you what passes for journalism these days. 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