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Bret Stephens (right-wing NYT opinion writer) really hates being called a bedbug

marmalade

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How are these people such weirdos? I've talked to maybe 12-13 folks elsewhere at the NYT and they are decidedly not weirdos. How are so many of their opinion columnists the biggest oddballs?
 
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UnpopularBlargh

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Someone edited the Wiki already:
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I can't believe the dude sent an email to the guy about his tweet smfh.
 
kadotsu

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I wonder if the NYT will have enough shame to send back the "When the Online Mob Came for Me" op-ed, that is surely being written right now. Nah... they'll publish it for the engagement.
 
cameron

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The random super tame tweet that made Bret upset:

davekarpf@davekarpf

The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens. https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/1166030096685314050 …

Stuart A. Thompson @stuartathompson

Breaking — There are bedbugs in the NYT newsroom.

12:50 PM - Aug 26, 2019

5:07 PM - Aug 26, 2019






Matt McDermott @mattmfm

Hey @NYTimesPR, can you point us to where in your social media guidelines it's acceptable for an op-Ed columnist to try and get a college professor fired for tweeting a (literally) harmless joke?



Bret Stephens: The biggest threat facing our society today is the stifling of free speech on college campuses.

Also Bret Stephens: I'm going to try and get a college professor fired for a joke he tweeted that didn't get a single retweet.



I mean come on, @nytimes.

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Alucrid

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someone make an animorphs cover of bret stephens transforming into a bed bug
 
Neoriceisgood

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Nobody tell me anything about this guy ever, I want my only mental association with "Bret Stephens" to be the word bedbug.
 
Stick

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We had a few Bret Stephens showing up my job a few months back, had to fumigate and shut down the whole place for a day or so to kill them out. Damn things refused to go away.
 
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I wonder if being called a bedbug in front to his wife is this guy's cuckold fetish.

Honestly, nothing wrong with it and probably the best way of this situation for him.
 
Atrophis

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Letter reads like a template he sends to anyone that offends him. Only way it makes sense for him to state that bedbug sets a new standard. Unless he really is that thin skinned...
 
Wag

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Ithil said:
Such extreme offense from the most minor of insults.
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Kirblar

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And I thought getting blocked by Shaun King after one of his vanity searches was ridiculous.
 
devilhawk

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Been laughing about this most of the night.

The request that the professor come over to his home and chat for a bit before calling him a bedbug in front of his wife and kids is just fuckin weird.
 
Ithil

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They're always the biggest weenies, these right wing loudmouths and "intellectuals". Just brats playing dressup.
What's really funny about this is had he just ignored this random nothing tweet (which he would have had to seek out), none of this would occur. But now he's ensured he is Bedbug Stephens for the rest of his professional career.
 

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Brett Stephen's shows up to my wife's clinic every couple of months. Huge pain in the ass. Everyone showers for hours after he shows up and runs things.
 
danm999

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Oh man starting to think all these right wingers moaning about free speech and perpetually offended PC college campuses are doing so in bad faith and are projecting
 
ZackieChan

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cameron said:
The random super tame tweet that made Bret upset:

davekarpf@davekarpf

The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens. https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/1166030096685314050 …

Stuart A. Thompson @stuartathompson

Breaking — There are bedbugs in the NYT newsroom.

12:50 PM - Aug 26, 2019

5:07 PM - Aug 26, 2019






Matt McDermott @mattmfm

Hey @NYTimesPR, can you point us to where in your social media guidelines it's acceptable for an op-Ed columnist to try and get a college professor fired for tweeting a (literally) harmless joke?



Bret Stephens: The biggest threat facing our society today is the stifling of free speech on college campuses.

Also Bret Stephens: I'm going to try and get a college professor fired for a joke he tweeted that didn't get a single retweet.



I mean come on, @nytimes.

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On point. I haven't read his climate change stuff, which I'm sure is a disaster. But every time I see him on MSNBC shows he seems perfectly fine. This situation is showing he's as thin skinned as it gets. Hilarious the juxtaposition of this tweets.
 
aliengmr

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"Show yourself, coward, and tell my Wife I'm a bedbug."

Is this headline real? Like, did he write that?
 

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rofl some people have the thinnest skin

some politician tried to get me fired because of a neutral comment I left on a tweet about him

he's also one of those annoying "free speech" advocates and yet...
 
Chimpzy

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So, right-wing mouthpiece reveals himself to be a fragile hypocrite. Sounds about right.
 
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