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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:04 PM
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Ex-Ind. deputy AG says Twitter comments satirical
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WISCONSIN_PROTESTERS_INDIANA_OFFICIAL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A former Indiana deputy attorney general who tweeted that police should "use live ammunition" against Wisconsin labor protesters says his comments were intended to be satirical.

Jeffrey Cox tells Indianapolis television station WRTV he realizes the tweet wasn't a good idea, but he doesn't think public employees should lose their free speech rights.

The attorney general's office says Cox "is no longer employed" by the state after Mother Jones magazine reported his tweet. The magazine says the tweet came in response to a Saturday posting on its Twitter feed that riot police could sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol where they're protesting legislation to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:05 PM
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1. Yeah, well so was your job buddy. Enjoy unemployment you fucker.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:06 PM
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2. NOBODY is taking away his freedom of speech
I don't see him being thrown in a cell with bread and water being tortured.
I see a man who CHOSE to use his freedom of speech in such a manner that it cost him his job.

It was HIS choice....just like it was the choice of his employer to fire him for it.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:08 PM
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5. Yep, he is still free to tweet all he wants to n/t
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:07 PM
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3. Satirical? Satirical? That excuse isn't even a decent attempt to spin. nt
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:08 PM
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4. That's what assholes always say when taken to task for outrageous statements.
"I was only joking."

Bullshit. Next time maybe you'll think before you open your useless cakehole.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:10 PM
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6. He's so funny, I could just die laughing.
Asshole.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:11 PM
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7. Bullshit, the scumbag would cheer on police killing innocent people.
Fuck him and I hope he ends up being a broke piece of shit. Would serve him right to live on the streets.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:22 PM
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14. Alas, I'll bet the Koch brothers will offer him a job. He's just the kind of
asswipe that would fit in with their organization. And I use the term "asswipe" advisedly b/c it's no coincidence that the Koch fortune was built on toilet paper.

(BTW, boycott Quilted Northern and Angel Soft)
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:14 PM
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8. Ah, the Limbaugh defense.
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:16 PM
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9. Yep, just like this was supposed to "funny" too...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x477517
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:16 PM
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10. ah... so now he is hangin on the public employee thing. a corp would be able to fire his ass
and he would defend the corps right to do it.
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superduperfarleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:16 PM
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11. Huh. I didn't realize that THAT was what "satirical" meant.
I've gone my entire life with a completely different definition in mind. That's for clearing that up, Jeff.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:27 PM
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16. SATIRICAL, Jeff Cox definition:
Spewing
All
The
Impotent
Rage
I
Can
At
Liberals
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:17 PM
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12. He's hoping people don't hear more of what he tweeted than the "use live ammunition" part.
That way he may be able to save some public face and play himself off as the 'poor victim' in this disaster of his own making.

If you leave out how he called the demonstrators "political enemies" and "thugs" who were "physically threatening legally elected officials." and the "you're damned right I advocate deadly force." And how he called the person from Mother Jones a "typical leftist," and said how "liberals hate police." You might buy that. With all that in context though he reads like a typical hate filled Republican.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:17 PM
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13. Silly Rabbit..
Conservatives don't understand satire:)
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:24 PM
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15. And who could be causing this problem?


SATAN! MAMON?
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