“Rep. Steve Smith” is still at it. The pretend congressman from Georgia’s fictional fifteenth district continues to pester members of the media on Twitter, seeking to ensnare any person into believing he really is essentially the most offensive tea celebration consultant in the House. “Smith’s” first a hit goal used to be CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who replied with “Critically?” late closing month. Now, it appears he will have fooled MSNBC’s Touré.

Responding to MSNBC tweet that quoted Touré as saying “Obamacare is not Obama’s Katrina,” “Smith” known as for the president’s impeachment. When an MSNBC supporter advised him to “shut up,” he took things many steps further by the use of the racially-charged term “boy” in his response

Touré replied in what looked to be genuine outrage to both feedback, calling him “Congressman” and questioning his use of the word “boy”:

Inside minutes, after lots of his followers cited that “Smith” used to be parody account, Touré stated that he realized it was once pretend:

However that wasn’t sooner than usual MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein retweeted Touré’s message to his nearly 400,000 followers. He due to this fact mentioned that it was faux as neatly:

Two different MSNBC’ers obtained roped into the fray as well, with Jonathan Capehart and Sam Stein each calming down their followers who had been outraged via “Smith’s” feedback:

The newest uproar has completed little to decelerate “Rep. Steve Smith,” who has saved issues going robust on his Twitter account, which is coming near four,500 followers, into Tuesday afternoon.

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