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Monica Foy, the Victim of a Terrifying Right-Wing Internet-Shaming, Speaks Out (pity party alert)
NY Magazine ^ | September 4, 2015 | Jesse Singal

Posted on 09/05/2015 3:58:05 PM PDT by Zakeet

Tuesday morning felt normal to Monica Foy, a junior and English major at Sam Houston State University. The first thing the 26-year-old, who lives outside Houston with her husband, did when she woke up was check her Twitter and Facebook feeds. Both were full of people mourning the loss of Darren Goforth, a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy who was murdered Friday night by a man named Shannon J. Miles, who came up behind him at a gas station, shot him in the back of the head, and then emptied every bullet in his gun into the officer.

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Foy tweeted a dry joke about what she saw as the different ways society responds to different deaths: “I can’t believe so many people care about a dead cop and NO ONE has thought to ask what he did to deserve it. He had creepy perv eyes …”

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Disastrously for Foy, the tweet quickly got screen-grabbed and began spreading among right-wing Twitter users, who immediately sought to amplify it. It found its way to Brandon Darby, managing director of Breitbart Texas, part of the far-right Breitbart website. Darby, as he would soon explain, quickly decided that it was on him to step in and defend the murdered deputy’s legacy against the threat apparently posed to it by a college student’s tweet. And as a journalist with a good-size megaphone, there was one obvious way to do that.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: brandondarby; darrengoforth; demagogicparty; freespeech; jessesingal; liberalism; memebuilding; monicafoy; murder; nymagazine; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pig; police; swine; texas; twitter
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To: Zakeet

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Karma’s a bigger b*tch than this thick chick.


41 posted on 09/05/2015 4:26:55 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Zakeet

Moral: Think twice before you tweet, twit.


42 posted on 09/05/2015 4:28:20 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot
Think twice before you tweet, twit.

You used the wrong vowel on that last word.

43 posted on 09/05/2015 4:28:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Zakeet

Could shame work with someone this stupid and wicked?


44 posted on 09/05/2015 4:31:34 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Even when I cannot see him I can feel it in my bones That he's still there. Trespasser by Al Stewart)
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To: dfwgator

I stand (actually sitting) corrected. :-)


45 posted on 09/05/2015 4:31:46 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Zakeet

That is one ugly wookie!


46 posted on 09/05/2015 4:32:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: x1stcav

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side


47 posted on 09/05/2015 4:32:37 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Zakeet

She thought Twitter was just a little place to post her private thoughts (not the world’s biggest social media network).

Keep spinning, you commie slob.


48 posted on 09/05/2015 4:36:29 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Cruz 2016 - Blow Up The GOP)
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To: Zakeet

Forever, the left has been stating that free speech doesn’t mean that you are free from consequences. Now...the left is trying to silence the consequences of such hate.


49 posted on 09/05/2015 4:37:21 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Jim Robinson

Homos and trannies aren’t considered pervs anymore; only straight people are.


50 posted on 09/05/2015 4:38:40 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: Zakeet

Boo hoo.


51 posted on 09/05/2015 4:40:23 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Her sequined little black dress is called “outer space.”


52 posted on 09/05/2015 4:40:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: dfwgator

Lou Reed...


53 posted on 09/05/2015 4:41:43 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Zakeet

“Foy tweeted a dry joke”

And all those right-wingers were just joking back..sheesh some fat creepy eyed leftist don’t know how to take a joke.


54 posted on 09/05/2015 4:42:55 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: Zakeet

Sorry but if you do something stupid on Facebook or Twitter then you deserve what happens to you.


55 posted on 09/05/2015 4:45:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: FredZarguna

Yep, “pervs” are the “new normal”.


56 posted on 09/05/2015 4:48:08 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Zakeet

Way to make a story about some idiot’s hurt feelings, rather than an innocent policeman’s life taken.


57 posted on 09/05/2015 4:48:51 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: Zakeet

Smaller fat women orbit around her.


58 posted on 09/05/2015 4:52:41 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: OldNewYork

The “creepy perv eyes” thing - isn’t that what Trayvon Martin said to his girlfriend right before he attacked George Zimmerman? I’m guessing this gal didn’t mean it this way - but it could almost have been a “conservative” satire joke.


59 posted on 09/05/2015 4:54:09 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Zakeet

Has the author stopped to think that maybe she deserves this? She has a stupid look in her eyes?


60 posted on 09/05/2015 4:54:18 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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