"I'm doing a shot every time Carly lies. I'm drunk": Bill Maher & the best Twitter reactions to the GOP debate

From the unhinged responses on the right to general snark, here's how the 4th GOP debate was received

By Sophia Tesfaye

Senior Writer

Published November 11, 2015 4:36AM (EST)

  (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
(AP/Mark J. Terrill)

In Milwaukee, a tightened group of GOP presidential aspirants gathered tonight for the Fox Business-Wall Street Journal debate, the fourth on the Republican side so far.

Despite being aired on the least watched network so far, tonight's debate got a bit of a bump early on during the so-called "kiddie debate" when Twitter reacted to this scandalous shake-up:

The social media platform was chock-full of the usual complaints about the debate moderators:

There were also off-the-wall responses from right-wing Twitter, exuberantly cheering the most outlandish GOP antics of the night:

But as has become tradition with this campaign cycle's Republican presidential debates Twitter reactions, the funniest tweets mocked the whole lot:


By Sophia Tesfaye

Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer for Salon focusing on media. She resides in Washington, D.C. You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.

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