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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.

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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: Borax Queen

I think she fancies herself a Megan McCain, and thinks she can mouth off like McCain and get away with it. I wonder if she actually learned anything. I get the impression that she feels she’s totally without sin and it should all just blow over and go away.


61 posted on 09/05/2015 4:56:05 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Zakeet

Sub-normal ...


62 posted on 09/05/2015 5:00:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Tucker39

What was Her number again?


63 posted on 09/05/2015 5:03:52 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: DoodleDawg
“I never would write anything like that on Facebook, which is why I have a Twitter account,” she said. “I wrote it there because I knew that no one would see it"

That was covered in the user agreement......

Twitter is a way for people to immediately tell the whole world the first thing that pops into their mind, before they can figure out it is stupid.

64 posted on 09/05/2015 5:05:03 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Zakeet
If death is deserved for "perv eyes," why not death also for...

"toad face" and... "rat sneer?"
.

65 posted on 09/05/2015 5:08:33 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Big Red Badger

Number??????


66 posted on 09/05/2015 5:09:29 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Zakeet

B


67 posted on 09/05/2015 5:11:30 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Jane Austen
Talking about creepy, it is that woman. I am sure it is not just conservatives who were offended by her sick comments.

I'll say...She fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down...And yes, I'm Donald Trump...

68 posted on 09/05/2015 5:14:35 PM PDT by Iscool (HOA member...(heaven is a gated community))
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To: Tucker39

Wanted to tell her she can use Mexico for a tanning bed!


69 posted on 09/05/2015 5:20:33 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Zakeet

She’s so fat, her memory foam mattress forgot.


70 posted on 09/05/2015 5:27:06 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: KC_Lion

Thanks....you’ve nailed every aspect of this perfectly and we do need more of this....much more.


71 posted on 09/05/2015 5:28:35 PM PDT by Postman (Flies landing on 0re0 know crap when they see it!)
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To: USNBandit

She has just thrown away the “innocent” shield.

By her own words her twitter posting was a deliberate, thought out, act. Now she is upset that she is being held accountable for her deliberate act.

There should be another round. Retransmit her first quote and then follow up with her freely given admission that she tweeted it because she knew it was going to be inflammatory.

BTW, I have to wonder which one of her limited number of twitter followers retransmitted to one of his/her friends.


72 posted on 09/05/2015 5:28:41 PM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Impala64ssa

She’s so fat she has Euros in one pocket and Pesos in the other.


73 posted on 09/05/2015 5:47:55 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Zakeet

New York Magazine recently mainstreamed an interview with a guy who has sex with a horse.


74 posted on 09/05/2015 5:55:06 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Zakeet
I'm guessing she'll be gone from Sam Houston.

Sam Houston State University is a noted criminal justice university, adjacent to Huntsville State Prison (Walls Unit) where all Texas death sentences are carried out.

She won't be there long.

Her father called into Michael Berry radio Thursday to say how sorry he was and how embarrassed he and their family are. ...he didn't raise his daughter that way.

Monica Foy on the other hand is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame shame.

75 posted on 09/05/2015 5:55:46 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: miss marmelstein

He didn’t make any excuses for her.


76 posted on 09/05/2015 5:58:10 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: All

Putting aside politics briefly, I would say the general lesson here is that anything that anyone posts on the internet, broadly defined (even including private e-mail) has the capability of going not only public but viral, so that one should always consider that remote possibility whenever one posts. The law is still evolving on this, but so far the standard seems to be that if Joe Blow or Wide Sally Wide post a random thought in some dark corner of the intertubes, it has the same power to reach a mass audience as if Wolf Blitzer had said it with that odd guy pointing at each word on a 3-d mockup, or the NYT had published it on their op-ed page, or the Dalai Lama had spoken it at the United Nations.

The upside is that we are now all virtually famous even if we don’t know about it.


77 posted on 09/05/2015 6:01:05 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Soimetimes the perfect is the enemy of the good for a reason)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim,

See my post 75.

Ms Foy goes to college at a Criminal Justice University, next to a State Prison where all Texas executions take place.

Her father called into talk radio to talk about their family embarrassment, as the daughter enjoyed the negative attention.

78 posted on 09/05/2015 6:02:28 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Dr.Deth
She so fat her belt size is "equator".

She disappeared into fat-air.

She jumped up as high as she could once and got stuck there.

She so stupid he thinks Moby Dick is a venereal disease.

She so stupid she think that she can justify executing someone based on their eye appearance. But she so fat you can't tell her eyes are open.

Finally... she so stupid she votes democrat.

79 posted on 09/05/2015 6:09:15 PM PDT by boop (Do you want to take a shower? NO!)
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To: Zakeet
There is no way to criticize her. Anything said to and about her is considered a compliment. She is that low.
80 posted on 09/05/2015 6:13:57 PM PDT by sport
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