Chiding the First Children

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't stand this woman but I feel like te media is bullying HER at this point, way worse than anything she said in the first place. It's kind of scary actually, all this attention on a nobody for something written on a personal social media outlet.

This is the perfect example of something I've always told my kids. We call it the CNN test. Make sure that you would be comfortable with whatever you're putting online ending up on CNN under your name and picture. My kids and I are actual nobodies -- other than our relatives and close friends there is no reason a wider audience should care what we think about anything. But we still emphasize that a post or a picture could easily get reblogged a few times, photoshopped, and then go viral as the latest thing. Any time you put something online, you should assume that it can and might go viral even if it's just from a nobody and just on their personal social media. This person was a communications director for a politician. She should have been more careful of her online activities and her subsequent comments regarding the situation. She definitely should have known better than to make the foolish choices that led to her current image problems and her resignation.

She has been fired several times from other comms jobs so I'm not disputing that at all. I'm only observing the out of proportion response to her comments and wondering what that says about our culture in a broader sense. If she'd been a school teacher would this have generated such a response?

[jsteele]

I think you should be allowed a bit of stupidity in your private Twitter feed. An apology and public humiliation should be sufficient as long as the stupidity is not an ongoing pattern. One could argue that this woman's PR abilities were so dismal as to demonstrate she was not suitable for her job. But, I tend to think that a forced resignation was unnecessary, as is digging into her past.

I think zero tolerance for stupidity is probably not the standard to which we want to adhere. Life will soon be nothing more than hyping each other's controversial tweets. That said, I'm going to go tweet insults about all of you because I believe there is no such thing as bad publicity.

[Anonymous]

I weep for our future. A whole country of idiots multiplying.

[Anonymous]

Her job was a Press Secretary to a Republican Redneck Congressman. She should have known much better. By the way, Reneck Congressman never bothered to graduate from college. No wonder he hired such a dummy.

[Anonymous]

Classy. Is it right to interpret that his asking with her prom is as an inquiry as to when she turns 18?

http://www.complex.com/sports/2014/12/darnell-dockett-cardinals-de-posts-questionable-photo-malia-obama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her job was a Press Secretary to a Republican Redneck Congressman. She should have known much better. By the way, Reneck Congressman never bothered to graduate from college. No wonder he hired such a dummy.

So? Ted Kennedy got friends to take exams for him, but he turned out just fine.

Way to insult millions of Americans and our system of upward mobility through work.

I would LOVE to see you farm.

[Anonymous]

So? Ted Kennedy got friends to take exams for him, but he turned out just fine.

Chappaquidick? Just fine?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Classy. Is it right to interpret that his asking with her prom is as an inquiry as to when she turns 18?

http://www.complex.com/sports/2014/12/darnell-dockett-cardinals-de-posts-questionable-photo-malia-obama

Are you sure that he knew that was Malia? She is not identified in the picture as far as I can tell.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classy. Is it right to interpret that his asking with her prom is as an inquiry as to when she turns 18?

http://www.complex.com/sports/2014/12/darnell-dockett-cardinals-de-posts-questionable-photo-malia-obama

Are you sure that he knew that was Malia? She is not identified in the picture as far as I can tell.

Fair point, but even if her name is Jennifer Smith, it's still creepy to post that of a 16 yr old. Judging by his posting, a detail he is aware of. But yes, ignorance will probably be his get out of jail free card on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So? Ted Kennedy got friends to take exams for him, but he turned out just fine.

Chappaquidick? Just fine?

So.... you want to hang onto a story about a man who is dead, from 45 years ago.

But any comparison of this President to George W Bush brings a chorus of "Bush's fault" from the wing nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was shocked at how angry her post sounded. Never mind that it's the President's daughters she went after. She just came off as bat-sh*t crazy.

If you look at full-length photos of her it can be seen she's a fat ass, possible obese.

Interesting that liberals are ok with this description when it's for a conservative, but not for Lena Dunham.

[Anonymous]

there is an entire generation of republicans dedicated to spreading propaganda on social media. funded by special interests.

rush, oreilly, coulter, fox news have created an atmosphere where there is no truth anymore. "After many hours of prayer" is part of the code

see http://www.ff.org/ for example, funded by ExxonMobil

see http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=35

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't stand this woman but I feel like te media is bullying HER at this point, way worse than anything she said in the first place. It's kind of scary actually, all this attention on a nobody for something written on a personal social media outlet.

This is the perfect example of something I've always told my kids. We call it the CNN test. Make sure that you would be comfortable with whatever you're putting online ending up on CNN under your name and picture. My kids and I are actual nobodies -- other than our relatives and close friends there is no reason a wider audience should care what we think about anything. But we still emphasize that a post or a picture could easily get reblogged a few times, photoshopped, and then go viral as the latest thing. Any time you put something online, you should assume that it can and might go viral even if it's just from a nobody and just on their personal social media. This person was a communications director for a politician. She should have been more careful of her online activities and her subsequent comments regarding the situation. She definitely should have known better than to make the foolish choices that led to her current image problems and her resignation.

She has been fired several times from other comms jobs so I'm not disputing that at all. I'm only observing the out of proportion response to her comments and wondering what that says about our culture in a broader sense. If she'd been a school teacher would this have generated such a response?

teachers get fired all the time for saying inappropriate things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was shocked at how angry her post sounded. Never mind that it's the President's daughters she went after. She just came off as bat-sh*t crazy.

If you look at full-length photos of her it can be seen she's a fat ass, possible obese.

Interesting that liberals are ok with this description when it's for a conservative, but not for Lena Dunham.

i don't, but how hard I going to eork to defend someone who said what she did? She brought it on herself.

[Anonymous]

So.... you want to hang onto a story about a man who is dead, from 45 years ago.

It wasn't a "story". I was a little younger than Mary Jo and remember when it happened. It was awful that he got off on that.