Ashton Kutcher Tweet: Two and a Half Men Star Backpedals from Tweet

When I look for wisdom and sage advice about the world's events, the first person I turn to is actor Ashton Kutcher. The beauty of Twitter is that we have instant access to all of his thoughts, including those on the scandal at Penn State. 

In case you haven't heard, Kutcher was upset that Penn State fired Joe Paterno. So before he could figure out why, he posted this comment on the social networking site (Photo taken from E! website):

Kutcher has done some serious backpedaling once he took the time to figure out why Paterno was being let go. 

He "quit" Twitter until he could figure out how to handle the site. He has since found a solution, which would have benefited him greatly 24 hours ago: He is letting a management team handle his account from now on.

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A collection of over 8 million followers is not to be taken for granted. I feel responsible to deliver informed opinions and not spread gossip or rumors through my twitter feed. While I feel that running this feed myself gives me a closer relationship to my friends and fans I've come to realize that it has grown into more than a fun tool to communicate with people.

While I will continue to express myself through @Aplusk, I'm going to turn the management of the feed over to my team at Katalyst as a secondary editorial measure, to ensure the quality of its content. My sincere apologies to anyone who I offended. It was a mistake that will not happen again.

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Considering that Kutcher is famous for playing characters who are oblivious to anything, this whole incident seems to prove that art imitates life. 

Perhaps it was an honest mistake, but given the fact that Kutcher is such a huge sports fan—he is often seen at NBA games and was just on the Dan Patrick Radio Show earlier this week—it is hard to believe that he had not heard, even in passing, about something going on at Penn State. 

Then again, we are talking about someone who read the script for Dude, Where's My Car? and said, "I have to be in this movie!"

Kutcher is not a villain or anything like that. He just had a momentary lapse in judgement, much like the characters he plays, and is paying the price for it today. He deserves the criticism he is getting today, but let's not completely vilify him since he is learning something from it. 

Plus, we no longer have to worry about him sending out tweets of Demi Moore in granny panties.