"Secret White House Twitter Troll Unmasked and Fired"

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Secret White House Twitter Troll Unmasked and Fired

by Adam Martin at NY Magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/secret-white-house-twitter-troll-fired.html

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Life in the White House imitated Parks and Rec recently, as the identity of a staffer who ran an anonymous Twitter account critical of the administration emerged. But the real-life plot diverged from the show when the White House staffer, Jofi Joseph, was promptly fired instead of having a warm moment with Amy Poehler. Joseph, a director in the White House's National Security Staff, ran the @NatSecWonk stream, popular in foreign policy circles for its unabashed trolling of the administration, its allies, and various other political types. "I'm a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me," @NatSecWonk once tweeted, per The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin, who broke the story. The account is closed, but a catalog of its activity remains, via Favstar.


Through @NatSecWonk, Joseph largely trafficked in the kind of snark only serious political and foreign policy wonks get or care about, hence its name. "Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Wiener? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein," he once tweeted, "insulting a top Clinton aide, a then Congressman, and two White House senior officials in one tweet," according to Rogin. But he also took on lower-hanging fruit such as "Sarah Palin and the rest of her white trash family."


Politico reports the investigation into @NatSecWonk took months, and he was fired last week. "What started out as an intended parody account of DC culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments," a contrite Joseph told Politico in an e-mail. "I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted." But unlike on television, this ends with a lot of pissed off former colleagues, and someone losing his real-life job.




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[MADem]

1. .... a director in the White House's National Security Staff...

What an idiot-asshole. There are people who would kill for that job, and he's acting like a ten year old who is jealous of classmates.

His career is ruined. In this day and age, people who are hiring do the Google on the names of prospective employees. This guy has a unique name, he is no Bob Smith. People will know what he did. He'd better have a friend or family member who can hire him, otherwise he's gonna have a tough time of it, I suspect.

[Downwinder]

3. Probably write a book.

[MADem]

4. It had better be cheeky-funny-sexy and not just vicious gossip, or it won't make a dime.

Gotta find a way to translate that kind of tell-all to a cheesy, real life romantic dramadedy film with a decent, but not Oscar-worthy, ensemble cast.

The guy is no Anna Marie Cox in her snarky "Wonkette" days...!!!

[Downwinder]

6. Increased communication capabilities

have not increased quality, only quantity.

[MADem]

8. Can't argue with that one bit...! nt

[Tigress DEM]

9. Speechless... but you covered my thots nicely. Thanks MADem!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. sounds like some of the same "I like Obama but..." bullshit we see here every day

I hope Valerie Jarrett personally stepped in to fire this person. lol.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. We let the NSA dismantle the 4th Amendment so they can bust cancer grannies for dime bags

I bet they knew who this guy was a while ago, they just had to concoct the plausible parallel investigative narrative.

[gopiscrap]

7. fucking repuke asshole should be sued

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Sadly, he seems to be a Democrat

Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/white-house-official-fired-for-tweeting-under-fake-name1.html

http://wws.princeton.edu/GradAdmissions/trumanschs/bios/joseph/

[gopiscrap]

11. shit