Basic story: a worker for a political campaign posted a link to an endorsement of the candidate through Twitter, and the link was shortened using Bit.ly. But for whatever reason the last character on the shortened url was removed from the tweet, and a bunch of people saw this:
https://www.youtube.com/v/QMWUYMWlEyo?fs=1&hl=en_US
Not safe for school at all. Also I can't do embeds right.
edited 20th Oct '10 6:58:21 AM by Funnyguts
Granted, I've seen that bassist on You Tube before, doing Keion bass covers. He is good.
To quote Mapi, sufficiently advanced fail
is indistinguishable from win.
"Due to personal error, we accidentally tweeted an incorrect link. We apologize for any inconvenience... Now we have to get that song out of our heads."
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaHuh. They're supposed to be links to Instantrimshot.com. Specifically, the "Instant Price Is Wrong" and "Instant CSI" variants.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

http://gizmodo.com/5668013/one-politicians-incredibly-unfortunate-tweet
Politics are awesome you guys.