Disyembre 4, 2013

How many people thought of this idea for a tweet...

... but managed to resist the shameful impulse?

22 komento:

YoungHegelian ayon kay ...

I said it before & I'll say it again: Titter will end more careers than booze, drugs, or sex before it's gone.

Never, ever shoot from the hip in a public space with your name attached.

Do so anonymously & semi-privately.

Like here chez Althouse.

TML ayon kay ...

How bizarrely lame.
It's not even a rare name.
"Oh, a man died somewhere. Why couldn't it have been the man, Paul Ryan?"

Pathetic

wildswan ayon kay ...

I'm getting bored with Obama. He slightly revived my interest by spectacularly failing to know the true state of the Obamacare website. How could he not know? But I'm bored again. It's very slow movie running in slow motion in a loop

Crunchy Frog ayon kay ...

Couldn't have happened to a nicer skank.

Strelnikov ayon kay ...

Better question: How many of our friends on the Left said some version of that to each other? While giggling.

Michael K ayon kay ...

Oh, the humanity !

garage mahal ayon kay ...

Ironically a Walker aide just got fired for tweeting she'd like to choke Mexicans cleaning in a library.

George M. Spencer ayon kay ...

Ah, the News Editor at Jezebel.com.

damikesc ayon kay ...

Nice "Squirrel!" there, garage.

It's Jezebel. Anybody with an IQ above room temperature wouldn't lower themselves to write for them.

Fritz ayon kay ...

And even more to the point, the Walker aide got canned. It's unlikely the Jezebel editor will face anything more than a bunch of quiet atta girls.

garage mahal ayon kay ...

It's Jezebel. Anybody with an IQ above room temperature wouldn't lower themselves to write for them

It was a horrible thing to say. Did they apologize?

Jane the Actuary ayon kay ...

You know, we just had a long talk with my 10-year-old son because he told a boy at school "I will kill you" thinking he was making a clever joke (a la Achmed the Dead Terrorist, I think). Apparently some people didn't learn about boundaries in school.

David ayon kay ...

Garage, she sort of apologized, saying:

"I don't wish death on anyone. Joking about that was insensitive and inappropriate."

Now, she could not quite bring herself to direct the apology to anyone. Nor do I think that the apology was voluntary. She tweeted at 7:14 PM and posted the above at 11:56 PM, nearly two hours after Twitchy had exposed the avalanche of criticism she had already received.

One of those survival apologies, methinks.

Don't waste your energy defending this jerk. She's a loser.

Lyle Smith ayon kay ...

She has made it amazingly far in life with that character. Lord have mercy.


Wince ayon kay ...

I think the best way to drive the anti-Walker people nuts is to say it was him but on the third day the Governor rose from the dead in fulfillment of the scriptures.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

When I heard Paul Walker had died, my only reaction was "Who?"

MayBee ayon kay ...

She doubled down before she apologized. That article leaves it out. But prior to apologizing, she said conservatives just don't have a sense of humor.

Brando ayon kay ...

What happened to our new era of civility? Did Gabby Giffords get shot in the head for nothing?

Rusty ayon kay ...

MadisonMan said...
When I heard Paul Walker had died, my only reaction was "Who?"

Me too.
Apparently he was some sort of actor.

Matt Sablan ayon kay ...

She'll be fine. It is acceptable to say terrible things about conservatives/Republicans followed up by half-hearted apologies. It's part of the political game.

kjbe ayon kay ...

Both names were in a lot of headlines, this last week, so it was easy to do a double-take. And I'm no fan of the Governor, but this never crossed my mind.

Sam L. ayon kay ...

Nice people ya got there. Be a shame if sumthin happened to 'em. I know I'd cry about it.

Mag-post ng isang Komento

Please use the comments forum to respond to the post. Don't fight with each other. Be substantive... or interesting... or funny. Comments should go up immediately... unless you're commenting on a post older than 2 days. Then you have to wait for us to moderate you through. It's also possible to get shunted into spam by the machine. We try to keep an eye on that and release the miscaught good stuff. We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith.