LongestHorn got me, folks. He's so smart that l knew the day would eventually come, and here it is. Seven years ago, I said somebody was canned when he was actually suspended. To aggravate the matter further, I misspelled a word. I'm not sure that I can go on here anymore. I might even have to turn in my law license. I just feel so discredited and ashamed.
It's probably a waste of time to engage you on this, but I will. I'm a little bored. I never said Martin had a legal case against CNN and never said he had any kind of immunity. I also do believe in personal accountability, but I also don't believe in punishing people who haven't done anything wrong. The fact that some fringe social justice idiots got mad doesn't mean Martin did something wrong. He shouldn't have been suspended. His joke should have been laughed off and dismissed, and the three people who freaked out should have been told to get a hobby. No serious adult thought he advocated violence, and neither did the people who freaked out. They were simply showing off their oversized influence and imposing ideological discipline.
And no, an error doesn't make something fake news. Reports have errors frequently. Completely fabricated incidents and false narratives make fake news. That didn't happen here. Whether he got fired or suspended is of little consequence. He got punished for something stupid. That was the point, and it was a real story.
As for why I made the mistake, I don't know after 7 years. It's entirely possible that the story was edited after my initial post. I rarely get things that wrong. You'll also notice that the first few posts didn't correct my error or make any reference to a suspension. Another possibility? Maybe I was ****** drunk at the time. It was seven years ago. I didn't live in Germany then. I lived in the Açores at the time, and in February, they had hideous weather (cold and violently rainy and windy). There wasn't much to do but sit inside and drink. Lol.
But if I hadn't started the thread, some other dumbass story would have. You actually illustrated a good point here by bringing this up. You aren't smart enough to know you did or why, but you truly did.
I was pretty surprised at what happened to Martin, and my tone suggests surprise and a bit of outrage. That's rare for me.
If this story happened now, I don't think I'd react the same way because this kind of thing happens all the time. Somebody says something totally inconsequential and that 90 percent of the public doesn't care about, but the ten percent (all of whom are on Twitter) righteously crap in their pants and threaten to crap on everybody's table until the supposed bad apple gets punished. That happened far less in 2012. We (myself included) are numb to it now, and that's a shame because common sense is being shutdown while idiocy is thriving and being celebrated.
(FYI - I seldom drink Russian beer. I live in Germany. Drinking Russian beer over here is like living in Mexico and buying your tortillas from Vietnam.)
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