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White House Official Tracked Down and Fired Over Insulting Tweets
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "BBC reports that Jofi Joseph, a senior National Security Council staffer who was a key member of the White House team negotiating on Iran's nuclear weapons program, has been fired ... after a months-long probe into a barrage of tweets that included caustic criticisms of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top NSC officials, especially Ben Rhodes – whom he accused of dodging questions about Benghazi. Joseph, who posted under the now defunct Twitter name @NatSecWonk, gave a lacerating commentary on anything from policy to personal appearance. 'Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Weiner,' he tweeted, referring to the scandal-hit former New York mayoral candidate and his wife, a former aide of Hillary Clinton. He tweeted that Mrs Clinton 'had few policy goals and no wins' in the Middle East. He said Chelsea Clinton was 'assuming all of her parents' vices,' and targeted figures such as Republican commentator Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney's wife Ann for their looks and weight. Many in the foreign policy community reacted with shock to the revelation that Joseph was the mystery tweeter because Joseph was well known among policy wonks and his wife, Carolyn Leddy, is a well-respected professional staffer on the Republican side of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 'What started out as an intended parody account of DC culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments,' said Joseph in an apology. 'I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted.'"
Finally the NSA archive of "everything" has paid off ... and it only took them a few months to find out who it was. No wonder we're harvesting anything and everything our citizens do.
This proves that people who troll online are upstanding, well-adjusted individuals who release their negative energy in a healthy and creative manner, rather than beating their families or abusing their pets as many lesser-adjusted individuals do.
So the next time you see an online troll, shake his hand and pat him on the back - he is doing the right thing and fighting the good fight, saying the things you want to say so that you don't have to.
Nigger.
-- Ethanol-fueled
Perhaps much of what he said is true...the truth should not be insulting. In these politically correct times, he should have changed:
Mrs Clinton 'had few policy goals and no wins' in the Middle East.
to:
Mrs Clinton was policy goal challenged.
I think he's saying that he's not the troll Slashdot needs; he's the troll Slashdot DESERVES.
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
It does lend credence to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Back in my day we'd track down, invite them to a duck-hunting outing, and SHOOT the bastard ourselves.
FTFY.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I think he's saying that you go to Twitter with the troll you have, not the troll you might want or wish to have at a later time.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine