The political memes and Moments making America tweet again - CNET

Topping Fitzgerald's list of Moments from the presidential primary season so far is Beie Sanders' brush with bagels. When Sanders fronted up at the Democratic debate in February, rival Hillary Clinton took him to task for the "artful smear" that Sanders and his team had supposedly carried out against Clinton during the campaign.

As a former senator from New York, Clinton should know that this rainbow bagel is what a true artful smear looks like.

Ben Carson and fruit salad https://t.co/Baogs1gIiB

— POLITICO (@politico) February 26, 2016

Staying in foodstuffs, Twitter lit up when Republican candidate Ben Carson "brought a fruit salad to a knife fight," in the words of the Moments curation team. When asked how he would choose a Supreme Court justice, Carson said it would be down to a potential nominee's history of decision making -- the "fruit salad of their life" if you will. Cue delicious Vines.

It is still unclear where Carson stands on the important case of Apple v. Melon.

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Once again man of the Moments, Carson got caught backstage at the GOP debate on February 6, forgetting the first rule he was supposed to lea in presidential pageant school: Don't miss your cue. Instead, he looked more like Mr. Congeniality as he let his rivals politely walk past him, leaving viewers at home to scream at their TVs, "Just go on! You're making it worse! ...No, don't go backwards!"

Hundreds of Trump fans are lined up outside the school, including these guys: pic.twitter.com/NPrg56Pm0F

— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) October 16, 2015

Washington Post political reporter Jenna Johnson has been charged with covering Donald Trump, and in October, she took to Twitter to curate her own Moment from the campaign trail in Massachusetts. According to Fitzgerald, curation partners like Johnson help to "extend the experience" on Twitter.

Rubio has had enough! He is trashing Trump right now. #GOPDebatepic.twitter.com/pY5HJy9pbW

— Derek Minor (@thederekminor) February 26, 2016

Just days before Super Tuesday, Twitter (in its infinite, hive-mind wisdom) ruled that Trump had lost his most recent GOP debate, as rival candidates Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz took him to task over his political record. What better way to capture the moment than with a nod to "Spongebob Squarepants"? But even as Twitter's curators declared that Rubio had "pounded" Trump, they were left asking, "Will it matter?"

#CruzPhotoshoppic.twitter.com/nOfsdUVCI0

— AG (@AG_Conservative) February 18, 2016

It hasn't been all wins for Cruz. After his campaign team tried to photoshop a picture of Rubio shaking hands with President Barack Obama, Twitter lit up with similarly dodgy image-editing jobs and stock photos gone-wrong. That said, who wouldn't be tempted to vote for a person who'd been to space and appeared in the "Rocky" films.

man, Iggy's looking a lot different for this comeback https://t.co/PZo4b8ISE5#sarahpalin

— The Gregory Brothers (@gregorybrothers) January 22, 2016