Comments on: The liberal blogosphere takes down another violent offender https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499741 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:55:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499741 Derek: He was an AAG.

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Timberwolf: Yeah, I know. You should see what you don’t see!

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499740 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:46:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499740 Hmmm… IBM laptops… vacuum cleaners….

If he’s a comedy writer he should understand the difficulty of expressing sarcasm over something as lame as twitter. But, that’s “former” and I doubt it’s in his job description. (And some comments I saw somewhere where this was reported make it sound like he may be a dickhead.)

A little further from here, it looks like Herr Doktor Baron zu und von Guttenberg, defense minister of Germany, may be going down. His seemingly ghost-written and highly plagierized doctoral thesis has already been withdrawn.

GREG have you shrunk these input boxes down here since I’ve last used them?

]]> By: Derek https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499739 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:18:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499739 Greg, I dunno, the guy was a former comedy writer. Expressing emotions online can be tricky, you can’t know if the other person is being sarcastic, ironic, kidding or what. Losing your job over a tweet… I guess his tweet “backfired”.

]]> By: Timberwoof https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499738 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:33:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499738 Greg, your blog is being spammed by bots. That last comment is nothing but amateur trollery signed with a commercial URL.

]]> By: Timberwoof https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499737 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:54:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499737 “Cox told WRTV he realizes the tweet wasn’t a good idea, but he doesn’t think public employees should lose their free speech rights.”

Free speech does not mean the freedom to yell “Fire!” in a crowded NRA convention.

We’ve had some cases recently of teacher getting fired for (anonymously) saying mean things about their (anonymous) students. This is different: if someone was making the same suggestions about government officials, this deputy AG would be all over him like flies on shâ??like cops on a fleeing suspect.

]]> By: itzac https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499736 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:26:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/23/the-liberal-blogosphere-takes/#comment-499736 “Cox told WRTV he realizes the tweet wasn’t a good idea, but he doesn’t think public employees should lose their free speech rights.”

He hasn’t lost his free speech rights, it’s just become clear from his use of free speech that he wasn’t fit for the job.

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