They come out and attack, then when someone responds, they invariably resort to victim mode. So freaking pathetic. I was going to leave this alone, until I just saw her post update:
UPDATE: I have been receiving emails alluding to the fact that I got fired. I was not fired. I resigned. I was not pressured to resign. I just sent my boss an email explaining what was happening and told him I thought it was best for all involved if I resigned.
Protein Wisdom has been down since this all started so it is not possible to see all the comments and everything that led up to this. People are posting snippets of what I posted that have been embellished with references to french kissing and other things I didn't say.
When and if protein wisdom comes on line again, it will be hard to tell what Jeff added or deleted to the transcript.
You can read up on this idiot via MM and Black Five. They want to be free to spew garbage all over the Internet - but in the end, they don't want to be held accountable for their twisted rhetoric and stupid views.
When someone repsonds by trying to get them fired?!?!
Posted by: bbbustard | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 03:29 PM
I didn't see anyone trying to "get her fired" I saw people wanting her to be held accountable for her statements. Why shouldn't she be? Tax dollars shouldn't be supporting that tyope of personality to educate young minds. But that would still be the U's call. She claims to have resigned. Nah, not a bit unstable, is she?
Posted by: Dan | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 03:38 PM
Interesting response. Your "I didn't see anyone trying to get her fired" is clearly dishonest. Why do you bother to make it? Do you think that I'll believe you? You yourself call for her to be fired. When you say "accountable" coupled with your statement that "tax dolars shouldn't be supporting"; you are saying you think she should be fired. Why lie about it? Where does it get you?
Posted by: bbbustard | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 03:58 PM
There you go, again!! Let me explain it to you - whether I think she should be fired or not is irrelevant. You said people responded by trying to get her fired. What people did was seek to have her held accountable for her remarks. How she may or not be held accountable would be up to ASU.
If people report a minor criminal to the police, for instance, you can't say they sought to have them imprisoned for the rest of their life. But that's what you're doing here.
Posted by: Dan | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 04:11 PM
More Crap. If ASU said: "Yeah, we held her accountable; we gave her tenure and a big raise." I guess people would respond by saying "That's cool, as long as she was held accountable." People are not using "accountable" as some kind of neutral word, people think she should be punished in some way, and many, including yourself, think firing is appropriate.
Maybe you see her offense as "minor", but a lot of "people" that I've been reading act as if it's huge.
Good By for Now.
Posted by: bbbustard | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 04:28 PM
Someone - well, several someones - in the comments on her post noted she said she might get the FBI involved and wondered if her threats against a two-year-old child had been reported there?
And she resigned - why? I kow some firms (and I suppose Universities) offer to let a person "resign" rather than be "fired" both to save themselves from litigation and to not have it show on the record as being , er, involuntary seperation. Just wondering.
Posted by: John Anderson | Saturday, July 08, 2006 at 05:41 PM
"More Crap"
That about sums you up, yes. I didn't see anyone trying to get anyone fired, either, although there are claims that people emailed AZ State demading something be done.
But that is, at this point anyway, hearsay.
"People are not using "accountable" as some kind of neutral word, people think she should be punished in some way, and many, including yourself, think firing is appropriate."
Lessee... making what reasonable people [which includes liberals, btw] consider to be threats against another person and that person's child -- even online -- some sort of punishment would seem to be appropriate. Technically, it's assault if Goldstein considered it threatening; but regardless, there's enough there to warrant at least an investigation.
This is the first comment on her apology on her own website: "You really succeeded in making liberals look like psychopaths. Can you do the rest of us a favor, and either stop posting entirely, of join the Republican Party?
Posted by: The Kenosha Kid at July 8, 2006 09:56 AM"
But, no, of course; let's rationalize the dimbulb, shall we?
Posted by: rwilymz | Sunday, July 09, 2006 at 10:30 AM