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Posted on 04/14/2019 11:26:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Boston Globe pulled a column suggesting waiters should tamper with the food of Trump administration officials.
"I’m not saying you should tamper with anyone’s food, as that could get you into trouble. You might lose your serving job. But you’d be serving America. And you won’t have any regrets years later,” freelance journalist Luke O’Neil wrote in the piece, which is now unavailable on the Globe’s website.
O’Neil opened the 1,200-word column last week by saying that one of his biggest regrets in life was “not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon” when he waited on the conservative political analyst at a Cambridge, Mass. restaurant.
He also addressed a number of instances of Trump officials facing protesters or being forced out of restaurants while dining.
According to The Washington Post , the Globe pulled the piece following backlash from conservatives, who took to Twitter to call it “hateful” and “counter-productive.”
Initially, the Globe edited O’Neil’s column, changing a number of lines and removing the line addressing waiters. Mediaite reported that the revised column was topped with an editor’s note reading: “A version of this column as originally published did not meet Globe standards and has been changed. The Globe regrets the previous tone of the piece.”
But the paper ultimately pulled the entire column, sparking further backlash on social media, with some calling the decision “pathetic.”
O’Neil, who wrote regularly for the Globe, told the Post that he “will never write for them again.”
“They completely cut my throat on this,” he said.
He told the Post that he has received death threats over the article, but does not apologize for it “whatsoever.”
“I wasn’t really advocating to piss in somebody’s food, that’s crazy,” he said. “But I do think these people should be made uncomfortable in public. I don’t think that’s a . . . radical idea.”
The Hill has reached out to the Boston Globe for comment.
yeah, but how do they unprint the tens of thousands of printed versions?
btt
Behavior that is always reflective of the hateful left. You can not expect anything less.
“O’Neil, who wrote regularly for the Globe, told the Post that he “will never write for them again.””
looks to me like the globe dodged a bullet ...
Horrible.
Good that at least they had some sense and not publish it.
What if someone advocated spraying acid in Luke O’Neil’s face? He wouldn’t consider that a radical idea? Leftist liberals are the pathetic ones, not adhering to social norms.
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder was the 20th book written by Michael Savage.(2005)
Never disproven by modern science or psychiatry.
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Can’t say I blame him for wanting to piss in Bill Kristols salmon
But, what does Kristol have to do with the Trump administration?
Bill has been pissing in his own cornflakes for 4 years now because of his TDS
You would also “serve” life in prison.
You are insane. Do you NOT realize where this is going and to what point it will escalate? Really? Seriously? I can NOT believe this stuff is happening.
GnikcuF whack job...
If anything like that were ever to happen, this guy should be an accessory.
Perhaps Luke should make threats to poison Obama’s food, or his hired goons, and see what happens..This would NEVER have been said about ANYONE in Obama’s Administration, they would be put in jail immediately for even suggesting such a thing, but with President Trump, since the commie media hates the fact that he’s breathing air, they want him dead, they wake up every morning hoping someone killed him and his family
Yet these are the same people that say that Trump is advocating violence against their precious Omar for posting a video of her OWN WORDS
Sorry this needs to be talked about right now in the biggest way. Leftists are encouraging these violent fantasies and talk all over facebook and now in editorials of major newspapers.
It is coming, these people are going to be acting on it count on it. Then people will be shocked, so very shocked, how could they see it coming. Except they dream about it and encourage it and talk about it constantly.
[O’Neil, who wrote regularly for the Globe, told the Post that he “will never write for them again.” ]
These folks are begging for a bloodbath....
These people are sicker than sick.
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