The
fake, awful, sexist, and unfunny parody Pinterest account that Senator
Rand Paul created in Hillary Clinton’s name has been shut down.
Paul
tweeted a link to the page on Saturday in an attempt to poke fun at the
woman who could be challenging him in the 2016 US presidential race,
referring to the bogus account as “Hillary Clinton’s new Valentine’s Day
Pinterest board.”
We dissected Paul’s misguided, failed attempt at humor
shortly after it went up. The stunt, which failed to pick up any real
momentum on Twitter despite Paul’s plea for the RT, didn’t last long.
Regardless of where you land on politics, it’s tough to fault Pinterest
for axing “Hillary Clinton.” The parody account failed to identify
itself as such, and none of the major social networks have much
tolerance for impersonation. Hopefully Paul’s team has learned a
valuable lesson from this before the 2016 campaign season truly gets
underway. Politicians just aren’t very good at trolling. At least he
stayed away from Snapchat.
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