The Real Outrage In the McCrory-Reid's Incident (and I agree)

[TalkingDog]

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Blogs/Poking-the-Hornets-Nest/February-2014/The-Real-Outrage-In-the-McCrory-Reids-Incident/#.UwQWa5VO0yU.facebook

Here’s what’s creepy as all hell: The governor’s staff apparently trolled social media post facto in an effort to publicly smear the guy who’d just lost his job (deep in Steve Harrison’s Observer story):

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He said he was referring to a January Facebook page about a planned protest for a McCrory visit to Statesville in February. On the page, some commenters said that they should burn an effigy of the governor. One commenter wrote they could “kick (the effigy) around,” to which Swope replied, “square in the” (groin).

There’s kind of a difference between an effigy and the real thing. You don’t get arrested for assaulting an effigy, as this great American nutball can tell you. That’s the point of an effigy. Was Swope’s comment rude? Sure. I’ve seen far, far worse. That’s not the point anyway.


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McCrony's "guy" said that Swope had physically threatened the Governor. Sorry, that ain't what happened.

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