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Bret Stephens is Deactivating His Twitter Account After Blowing Up at Man Who Called Him a Bedbug
Mediaite ^
| Aug 27 2019
| KEN MEYER
Posted on 08/27/2019 11:26:50 AM PDT by rintintin
“Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity,” Stephens posted. “I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deactivating this account.”
Stephen’s announcement comes after he flew off the handle on Dave Karpf, a media and public affairs professor for George Washington University who called him a “bedbug.” This appeared to be an off-hand joke about the news that the Times recently had a bedbug outbreak in their newsrooms.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bloggers; gwu; karpf; newyorktimes; nyt; stephens
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:26:50 AM PDT
by
rintintin
To: rintintin
He looks like Joe Walsh who looks like Epstein
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:29:56 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: rintintin
Well, he got one thing right - Twitter is a sewer.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:30:01 AM PDT
by
TomServo
To: rintintin
Snowflake.................
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:30:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: rintintin
Good grief....sensitive much? I can’t imagine what he’d do if someone tweeted a pic of his severed head, dripping blood. Suck it up, buttercup.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:30:22 AM PDT
by
JudyinCanada
(Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
To: rintintin
A Dung Beetle impersonating a Bed Bug
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:30:37 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: Red Badger
A NY Times faux conservative snowflake looking for a safe space because a stupid tweet triggered him.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:31:30 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: rintintin
This is a funny story, illustrating the total lack of insight, lack of humor that many Dems have.
To: rintintin
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:32:52 AM PDT
by
Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
To: rintintin
Karpf posted a screenshot of an email he received from Stephens, which had a threatening tone to it since it challenged the professor to “come to my home, meet my wife and kids, talk to us for a few minutes, and then call me a ‘bedbug’ to my face.”
Red flag ? /s 🚩🇨🇳
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:34:54 AM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: Linda Frances
He’s the guy who flew off the handle on Dave Karpf.
Yeah, I know. Who’s Dave Karpf?
To: rintintin
TWITTER is America’s bathroom wall. I erased it out of my life a long time ago. It tears the heart... and then the soul.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:35:51 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Don't get bitter, get better.)
To: lee martell
“lack of humor that many Dems have.”
They do find it amusing when their political enemies are debased and abused.
To: csvset
How is that a “threatening tone”?
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:41:02 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
To: rintintin
I tried Twitter for a while hoping to make a positive religious influence. It IS a sewer. It is worse then you can imagine. Evil run amuck. It’s not worth to cast those pearls among swine.
To: Linda Frances
A Never Trumper token “conservative”.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:44:34 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: rintintin
I see no problem with the email response.
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posted on
08/27/2019 11:46:51 AM PDT
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: rintintin
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