Wow – just wow.

Hilarious!

What amazes me is that they have yet to delete the tweet. If it was an accident, then fix it.

I saw it and laughed and laughed and laughed. I figured since it wasn’t deleted it was on purpose. Bachman IS insane after all.

Rachel: You may think it’s funny and you may think Bachman is nuts (we agree on that), but allowing that tweet to go out on a charitable institution’s twitter account, a group that relies on donations from people who may not agree with you and I, is insanely careless. And to not have dealt with it yet is even more careless. Is this a serious charity with employees who watch over things? I’m guessing not.

I don’t see what’s questionable about calling a spade a spade.

Jim hit the nail on the head-not a good way to get money, not a good way for an organization to comport itself.

Folks,
We had a spam problem over the weekend as well while I was on the road as well. Just saw this, and we have deleted the message. Passwords changed.

Kevin Melrose: Never heard from you. Do you have current contact info? I’m reachable at: james.mclauchlin.778 (at) gmail.

Jim McLauchlin

I’ve looked into this, made some calls, and, trust me, the account password is being changed even as we speak. (@HeroInitiative apparently also had some spam tweets go out last week, I just learned; this problem isn’t limited to one weird tweet.) Even I–the outspoken uberliberal who is not shy about using my own PERSONAL account to opine that Bachmann is bizarre–would be the first to argue that the Hero Initiative organization should stay apolitical. (Also, it’s a pretty crass joke that I’m not sure makes much sense.) We just need to be more vigilant about protecting our social media accounts, and we will be.

Sorry to hear its Twitter account got hacked and glad to learn what had happened.

OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! 4 MORE YEARS!!! You can’t stop it, his reign will endure!

I did a search on that hashtag and didn’t find any similar tweets. Seems like someone just made a mistake is all, but doesn’t sound like a hacking.

The only people offended by this potent bit of truth are the ones with a grade school education and the terminally stupid. No harm, no foul.

I’m not the same Paul, and I don’t agree. It’s crass.

Hilarious–what I find very offensive is the fact that there are now two Republican candidates who are believers of dominionism. Do look this up. I identify as a Christian, but Bachmann actually thinks it is her God given right to govern and that all American institutions ought to be explicitly Christian. I am all for the Judeo-Christian tradition, but this is too much. Apparently separation of Church and State means nothing any more: far worse offence than the mixture of charity and politics.

Hear, hear.

I don’t think this was hacking, just stupidity. Guess this years membership was my last….

I see so many left-leaning posts from comics creators in my Twitter feed that I’d probably have just scrolled past this one without giving half a thought to it!

Little hard to believe someone is going to hack a twitter account to post a political tweet in the left-leaning comic industry. How about not taking the Anthony Weiner “I GOT HACKED” route and just apologize and dismiss whoever on the staff thought it was a good idea to post this on the main account?

How about you people stop thinking you are an arm-chair Sherlock Holmes, chalk it up as a weird one-time error and just leave it alone? One tweet, under ANY circumstances, hack or no hack, does not make the Hero Initiative a bad organization. I’ve been volunteering for them for over five years, and I’ve seen the good they’ve done. I’m not bothered in the slightest by this; it’s a NON-ISSUE.

Funny how when these things happen the first response is “we were hacked, but we fixed it and now everything’s ok.”

I’m calling bullshit.

Generalzod23: Yes, Hero Initiative does good. No one is debating that. But this is a ridiculous explanation for what happened and totally not believable. And that concenrs me and everyone else here who are calling BS. It sounds like a manufactured explanation and that brings up a lot more questions. See Anthony Weiner for how not to respond to an accidental tweet.

I think such a post would be more appropriate from the CBLDF, not Hero Initiative. Good to see they caught the spam / hacker and fixed things.

Fascinated to see the number of folks making comments here that have, in essence, called Jim McLauchlin and Mark Waid liars. I respect both of them too much to doubt the they’re telling the truth. Amazing, despite the amount of good that this organization does, how quickly folks are willing to turn on the group.

Tim: I think that’s a tad unfair especially given the evidence and no one is calling Mark Waid a liar. Mark simply said he believes in the organization and he is not an employee. The problem is the explanation given just doesn’t make a lot of sense and calling it in to question is both fair and appropriate. This has been a mishandled bungle — why no tweet on the official twitter account apologizing for the “hack?” The only word R6 got was in a comment thread, not an official response to the inquiry?

The Hero Initiative is a great organization doing great things that mishandled a mishap and that, sir, is a completely fair criticism.

Based on this tweet alone, I will be getting a membership and donating generously! Hacked or not, this tweet is brilliant! Those of you “offended” by the tweet: I didn’t know people like you read comics–hell, I didn’t know people like you knew HOW to read!

Flip, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Your responses were questioning the version of events, couched within a concession that you respect the work the organization does. Note that I wrote “in essence, called Jim McLauchlin and Mark Waid liars”.

No one literally called them liars, but you have one poster declaring: “I don’t think this was hacking, just stupidity. Guess this years membership was my last….” Another poster “How about not taking the Anthony Weiner “I GOT HACKED” route and just apologize and dismiss whoever on the staff thought it was a good idea to post this on the main account?” A third: “I’m calling bullshit.”

All three are questioning the validity of the version of events offered by McLauchlin (and with Waid, he recounted what he had been told, but I took it as a statement of support on Waid’s part, that he took what he was told at face value). So to challenge what they say is implying that the people are not telling the true version of events. How can that not be construed as accusations of lying?