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Welcome to Twitter Rant
101, a la Kim Kardashian West
LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s
“clap back,” where ce-
lebrities go after haters on
social media, and then
there’s “clap back” Kim
Kardashian West-style,
where one of the biggest
names in the game takes
on a 19-year-old, actress
Chloe Grace Moretz.
As Twitter shade goes,
there’s been far worse,
but like most things Kar-
dashian, this round scored
thousands and thousands
of clicks.
It started Monday night
with a nude, in-the-mir-
In this Feb. 17, 2016 file photo, Brian Johnson, left, and Angus ror selfie — black censor
Young perform with AC/DC on the Rock or Bust Tour in Chicago.
Associated Press bars in all the right places In this Jan. 14, 2016 file photo, Chloe Grace Moretz, star of “The
5th Wave,” poses at a special screening of the film in Los An-
— that Kardashian West geles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — AC/ AC/DC opened the most pushed out, noting later it
DC are postponing the re- recent U.S. leg of its “Rock
maining dates of their U.S. or Bust” tour Feb. 2 in Taco- was an old shot. The not- mention elsewhere that ing Midler.
tour because of lead sing- ma, Washington. Moretz might be slut-sham- Twitter Kim made a crack
er Brian Johnson’s possible The band is scheduled to so-new nude was enough ing Kardashian West, a about her age and men-
hearing loss. begin a European leg May claim Moretz took on thusly tioned that Midler once
The band says in a state- 7 in Lisbon, Portugal.q to motivate Bette Midler to in more tweets: gave her a gift but now
ment that doctors have This is a Saturday, March “There’s a huge difference falls into the “fake friend”
advised the “Back in Black” 5, 2016 file photo of former joke in a tweet: in respecting the platform category, to which Twitter
singer to stop touring im- Rolling Stones bass player that you’re given as a ce- Bette responded:
mediately or risk total hear- Bill Wyman, centre, with “Kim Kardashian tweeted lebrity and ‘slut shaming’ “I never tried to fake friend
ing loss. Suzanne Accosta, left, and something I never have you. Looks like anyone can
The group’s shows begin- Bob Geldof as they arrive a nude selfie today. If Kim done and would never take a selfie but not every-
ning Thursday in Atlanta at St Bride’s Church for do.” one can take a joke.”
through April 4 in New York the celebration ceremony wants us to see a part of The crazy resonated offline Speaking of funny, Kar-
are being rescheduled for of the wedding of Rupert among celebrity watchers. dashian West followed up
later in the year — likely Murdoch and Jerry Hall in her we’ve never seen, Billy Bush, co-host of NBC’s hours later with yet another
with a guest vocalist. London. “Access Hollywood Live,” missive,
she’s gonna have to swal- wondered on air Tuesday this one aimed at specu-
why Kardashian West both- lation that her earlier tone
low the camera.” ered to go there in the first was so off her usual norm
place. that one of her more out-
Get it? Well, Moretz did, re- “Kim needs to understand spoken loved ones might
that because the way she have hacked her account.
tweeting Midler’s joke and has presented herself she’s “Wait I can’t believe peo-
public domain. She’s fod- ple thought Kanye or Khloe
weighing in with a tweet or der for that sort of stuff,” he hacked my Twitter,” she
said. said. “I swear I’m funny
two of her own — because Others, as these things usu- too!!”
ally go, also hopped on, Other highlights:
140 characters were slight- but they’re grown people — Twitter aficionado Piers
and can fend for them- Morgan offered to buy Kim
ly not enough — as she ad- selves. But why Midler some clothes and wise-
was singled out by the all- cracked about some per-
dressed Kardashian West powerful Kardashian West, sonal debt the other half of
who’s usually quite nice on Kimye,
directly: Twitter, is up for grabs. An Kanye West, noted in a re-
email to Kardashian West’s cent online rant of his own.
“I truly hope you real- publicist was not immedi- I’ll spare you his wife’s re-
ately answered Tuesday. sponse.
ize how important setting Nor was an email to — And this from (thank you)
Moretz’s publicist seeking Bella Thorne: “I think every
goals are for young wom- additional comment. woman should be allowed
Third grade-like petty to make their own choic-
en, teaching them we doesn’t begin to cover es with their OWN bodies
some of the details involv- soo..”
have so much more to of-
fer than just our bodies.”
That’s when IT happened,
the IT looking just like this:
“let’s all welcome @
ChloeGMoretz to twitter,
since no one knows who
she is. your nylon cover
is cute boo,” Kardashian
West tweeted.
Moretz’s cover in Nylon
magazine being a shot of
her in a pretzel-like pose on
a shaggy white rug, a jack-
et draped strategically to
enhance the appearance
that she, too, was nude
underneath. However, the
photo’s caption mentions
a Dior bodysuit, so — you
know — whatever.
The pile-on included a
