I first saw this story over the weekend: Some Kansas teenager on a student trip to the state capitol made a snarky Twitter comment about the governor, some thin-skinned weasel named Sam Brownback. The governor' lackeys complained to the school about it. So the school's principal bitched out the kid and ordered her to write a letter of apology to the weasel.
The student, Emma Sullivan, so far, is refusing to write the letter. Good for her.
I imagine by now that the hashtag #CrybabyBrownback is in use on Twitter.* And so it should. How much of a cry-baby does a politician have to be to complain "to the proper authorities" about what a kid has to say?
And how much of a slimy brown-noser does a school principal have to be in order to haul a student into his office and demand that the kid write a letter of apology to a politician who was so offended because the kid said something mean about him?
One of the people tweeting about this suggested that we make a verb out of Brownback's name, so you would be "Brownbacking" when you "whine and complain when you've been insulted". This is an example: Rick Santorum was Brownbacking about his name being Google-bombed.
Maybe Brownback can start his day this morning by reading about an obscure concept known as "freedom of speech".
(And it's got to sting the cry-baby governor that Emma now has about twice as many Twitter followers as he does.)
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* She used the hashtag #heblowsalot, which works, too.
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