Freudian slip or simple mistake?
Rep. James Clyburn (D- S.C.) encouraged the use of “sexting” on C-SPAN recently, calling it a great “tool” to get people out to vote.
As first noted by the Daily Caller, Clyburn was responding to a caller who was concerned about the Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin shootings.
He told the C-SPAN caller that the best way to help would be to get out and vote and get others to do so as well by using social media and what we can only assume was supposed to be “texting.”
“Use the tools that we have,” Clyburn said. “We’ve got great tools to communicate about everything else. We can, uh, text. Uh, what do we call it? Sexting. Let’s do some voting, uh, uh, organizing over the internet. We’ve got the tools. Let’s use them for a new massive movement that will make sure that we can have in November 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had, uh, in 2012 in November.”
Clyburn’s fellow Democrat, Anthony Weiner, is a huge proponent of the sexting method of activism. Sadly, it hasn’t been as effective for him as Clyburn seems to think it will be in the 2014 midterms.
Watch the video below:
