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A professor called Bret Stephens a ‘bedbug.’ The NY Times columnist complained to the (prof’s) boss.
Wash Post ^ | Aug 27 2019 | Tim Elfrink and Morgan Krakow

Posted on 08/27/2019 11:43:20 AM PDT by rintintin

The tweet seemed harmless enough to David Karpf. The associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University took a story that bedbugs had infested the New York Times newsroom as an occasion to dig at his least favorite Times writer, the conservative columnist Bret Stephens. “The bedbugs are a metaphor,” Karpf wrote on Monday. “The bedbugs are Bret Stephens." The tweet got nine likes and zero retweets, Karpf said. So the professor was surprised when an email from Stephens popped a few hours later. He noticed that his provost at GWU was copied on the email. And Stephens was furious. “I’m often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people — people they’ve never met — on Twitter. I think you’ve set a new standard,” Stephens wrote. “I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home, meet my wife and kids, talk to us for a few minutes, and then call me a ‘bedbug’ to my face. That would take some genuine courage and intellectual integrity on your part.”

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1 posted on 08/27/2019 11:43:20 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Neocon Stephens needs to emigrate to Israel.


2 posted on 08/27/2019 11:47:12 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: rintintin

Liberals don’t seem to like it when they wind up on the receiving end!!!


3 posted on 08/27/2019 11:51:03 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: rintintin

They claim hypersensitivity for incoming, throw insensitivity out the window for outgoing, then ate suprised when their same tactics are used against them.

Imagine a professor shocked by reality!

Good throw back. You learned him maybe.


4 posted on 08/27/2019 11:54:15 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: rintintin
bedbugs had infested the New York Times

When they saw the staff, the bedbugs called Orkin.

5 posted on 08/27/2019 11:57:44 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: rintintin

Invite me, Bedbug Stephens. I’ll be happy to fulfill your request.


6 posted on 08/27/2019 12:00:00 PM PDT by romanesq (MAGA Coalition sues QAnon & will expose the QAnon grifters!)
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To: rintintin

I actually had to look up “bedbug” to see if it was a new bad word or insult against a group to which Stephens belongs. No, he’s just a paranoid weirdo.


7 posted on 08/27/2019 12:03:12 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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To: bkopto
Stephens is virulently anti-Trump. I was glad to see him go when he left The Wall Street Journal. (I don't subscribe but sometimes look at it in the library.)
8 posted on 08/27/2019 12:06:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: rintintin

Better put some ice on that.


9 posted on 08/27/2019 12:07:23 PM PDT by kallisti (Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not)
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To: rintintin

I thought the only bedbug at the NYT was Ali Watkins.


10 posted on 08/27/2019 12:12:33 PM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

you’re so right. its as if all leftists have to take a class on hypocrisy, duplicity and making dirty diapers.


11 posted on 08/27/2019 12:25:24 PM PDT by chardonnay ( www.ballbusters.org)
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To: cdcdawg

We must now use the term, “B”-word.


12 posted on 08/27/2019 12:26:34 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: romanesq
Don't promise anything as regards the wife.

WOOF WOOF!!

13 posted on 08/27/2019 12:44:07 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: rintintin

Everyone needs to refer to Bret Stephens as,”Bedbug”.
Also Everyone needs to refer to Andrew Cuomo as,Fredo”.
Next?


14 posted on 08/27/2019 12:57:19 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: paddles

She brought the crab infestation


15 posted on 08/27/2019 1:51:04 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Fightin Whitey

I’m embarrassed that you had me laughing out loud. I think it was the captioned words. Mean, but yes you made me laugh. Woof!


16 posted on 08/27/2019 1:56:20 PM PDT by romanesq (MAGA Coalition sues QAnon & will expose the QAnon grifters!)
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To: rintintin

And yet the NY Times has no trouble maintaining on their editorial board Sarah Jeong, a Korean writer who has compared “dumbass f****** white men” to dogs - truly the inmates have taken over the asylum......


17 posted on 08/27/2019 3:10:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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