US Journo Baffles Internet By Tweeting A Link To 25-Mins Of Straight-Up Porn

The obvious explanation here is either Marshall – whose online persona is about as unprovocative as you can get – was either hacked, or fell victim to a copy-and-paste job gone spectacularly wrong.

We all thought it. Some of us even tweeted it.

.@joshtpm CTRL V should only be used by the practiced

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) December 31, 2016

@joshtpm Whaaaaa?

— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) December 31, 2016

@joshtpm hey Josh not sure if you meant to tweet that? Lmk

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 31, 2016

So, it’s been awhile and @joshtpm still has that tweet up there. Hack or did I just miss the point?

— Karoli (@Karoli) December 31, 2016

But the truly baffling thing here is that Marshall appears to have done it on purpose. He started retweeting people confused by his hot take, and offered weak-ass explanations to boot.

One such explanation? It appears to be related to a story published on Politico, which reported on Trump‘s transition team alleging that President Obama‘s sanctions against Russia were intended to “box in” the president-elect instead of punishing Putin for interfering with the election.

See the tweet previous https://t.co/0Go9ubVQAv

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 31, 2016

The previous tweet:

Team Trump: We’re the true target of Obama’s sanctions https://t.co/aUFf3DzFLG pic.twitter.com/bzwMhBOhqX

— POLITICO (@politico) December 31, 2016

I’m sorry… come again?

I’m no major political commentator myself, but linking “they did say targeting close associates” with 25 minutes of girl-on-girl cunnilingus has to be the longest bow in history.

Obviously, there was a fair bit of interest in this bamboozle of a tweet, and so Marshall found himself explaining it to Gizmodo‘s Eve Peyser, and by that I of course mean he explained absolutely fuck all.

“I’ve always had intense admiration for people who find themselves in situations where they’re supposed to feel ashamed and runaway and hide but just don’t and embrace it because they don’t feel like there’s anything to be ashamed or embarrassed about,” he wrote in an email, which he later tweeted.

“I guess what I’ve learned from this experience is how few people on Twitter have ever watched porn. Which is a great loss.”

“Have a great new year.”