Bret Stephens Boldly Went on Television to Defend His Freakout Over a Man Who Likened Him to a Bed Bug

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and little-seen joke on Twitter calling him a “bed bug.” After the professor’s follow-up tweets went viral, Stephens—on national television, in front of a nation and under the benevolent gaze of God Almighty—attempted to play through it, an action that was somehow even more embarrassing than his emailing a college professor and cc’ing the guy’s boss about being a meanie.

Stephens did not, at this point, correctly characterize “rhetoric” to mean “a joke some guy made that I saw, not because he tagged me, but because I obsessively search my own name on Twitter as part of a form of collective madness that has overtakenop-ed columnists en masse, seizing them with the conviction that ‘incivility’ and ‘people making jokes about me on Twitter’ is somehow an urgent problem and one worth writing about more or less constantly, at the expense of the complex set of moral...

Stephens added that he was, of course, not trying to get a guy in trouble with his boss by cc’ing his boss:

 

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