What is it with the Twitter altercations this week?! Last night, Tamil rapper-pop artist M.I.A. lashed out at CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper in the midst of her promoting Channel 4's Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished, accusing him of calling her a terrorist. Her tweet caught Cooper blindsided, leading him to ask her, "What are you talking about?"
For your entertainment, we've included every 140-characters-or-less response, from beginning to end. Dig in.
@AndersonCooper called me a terrorist for speaking out , and expressed support for theSLgov when this was happening
What are you talking about? RT@MIAuniverse: @AndersonCooper called me a terrorist for speaking out , and expressed support for the SLgov
someone should make @AndersonCooper watch it / film it and show the world what happens when respected journos get it wrong#killingfields
@andersoncooperYOU CALLED ME A LADY TAMIL TIGERwhen i talked about tamil civilians dying, and u printed a retraction ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/02/lad…
@miauniverse, you are mistaken. I never called you a terrorist. I don't even know who you are other than the lady who sang at superbowl.
@miauniverse. by the way, I defended your finger pointing at the superbowl, so check your facts. I've no idea what youre tweeting about.
@andersoncooper in 2009 u linked to a articl that was written about me with false info. there was a rebuttal on ur 360 site.
@andersoncooper 2 months later 1ce every tamil had been silencedincluding me,the SLGOV carried out the killing of 40, 000 civilians
@andersoncooper p.s thank you for defending my finger , please watch Channel4 #killingfields by @jonsnowC4 .
@miauniverse you've gone from saying "I wrote", "I called you," to saying my cnn show blog had a link to an article. Big difference
@miauniverse we link to many articles with different viewpoints, and we gave you an opportunity to respond.
@miauniverse I can understand your frustration if someone wrote untrue things about you, and I'm glad you were able to respond.
@miauniverse ....and the brutal war in SL has not gotten enough coverage in the US, and I know that very upsetting.
@andersoncooper im glad u understand but please watch #killingfields because this is what i was trying to say.
Well, what'd you think? Did M.I.A. have a valid point or was this whole thing just unnecessary?
[via Gawker]
