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What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 8:26:34 AM

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This is rich.......

Last week a Kansas teen was bullied by her governor after she tweeted a mocking hashtag about him.Wrong move!...lol

Now he gets the santorum treatment.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_65/heard_hill_sam_brownback_twitter_noun_heblowsalot-210590-1.html

It’s not every day someone turns your name into a noun. But welcome to the big leagues, Kansas Gov. (and former Sen.) Sam Brownback, and all because you trained the state’s resources on an 18-year-old senior at Shawnee Mission East High School who tweeted something mean about you.

Recall the ancient history of last week, when Emma Sullivan boasted on Twitter that she said a “mean comment” to the governor during a Youth in Government event in Topeka where Brownback was speaking. She ended the tweet with the hashtag “heblowsalot.” Team Brownback declared war on the teen and told on her to Shawnee Mission East High School principal Karl Krawitz. Krawitz called Sullivan into the office and demanded she apologize. She refused. Brownback apologized Monday.

Now Brownback faces the wrath of the Twitterverse, including this tweet from @MildlyRelevant: “Gov. Brownback’s office tattled on a high school girl who tweeted ‘#heblowsalot.’ I’m tattling on them for being a colossal Brownback.” There you have it: a proper noun.

And there’s also this, from Mark Logan, vice president of Digital Innovation for Barkley, who tweeted that the governor birthed “The Brownback Rule of Social Media,” which states “If you’re a politician, don’t pick a fight with a teenager on Twitter. #heblowsalot.”

The tweeting public is also calling on Krawitz to apologize to Sullivan and is reporting him to the high school for bullying. The principal’s telephone number has been tweeted (and retweeted and retweeted) for people to call and push him into saying he’s sorry.

Emma Sullivan just became the new Ferris Bueller."

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RE: What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 8:30:09 AM

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He probably just made that girls life amazing.

From what I read she went from having 60 people following her tweets because of Twilight and Justin Bieber, to 6900 people following her twitter for various reasons.

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RE: What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 8:34:46 AM

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While being rude, dimply because you can isnt something I advocate (oh shushhhh)
A grown man demanding an apology about a petty insult no matter who made it is a great new pathetic in my book
he deserves all the humiliation he gets.
Now while I can put my own spin on what brownback means to me(or should mean) is there a definitive definition?
I may use my own version if its not insulting enough:)

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RE: What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 8:34:58 AM

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I love the "internetz".

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RE: What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 8:39:22 AM

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Manners were definitely lacking.. on both of these adults sides.

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RE: What a Brownback! - 11/29/2011 1:15:17 PM

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This is whats wrong with America. Citizens dont understand respect when a Republican is office. American Citizens do NOT have the right to criticize, critique, or poke fun at a Republican when they are in power. If you are willing to shut up, taking up the ass, and never question Conservative leadership no matter how wrong, illegal, corrupt, or immoral they are, then you are a true American patriot who knows their place in society. However, the same cannot be said when a Democrat, progressive, or Liberal is in office. Citizens must do everything in their power to voice their hateful, disgust, and criticisms at Democrats. It doesnt matter if they doing the "right", "moral", "ethical", "legal" course of action. Its your duty as an American Citizen and a true patriot to make sure that feel unwanted, hated, and never run again. It doesnt matter what the "facts", "proof", "evidence", and opinions support them, all that matters is that they never will never see the light of day. No that is not a death threat or telling people to "reload", or any of the other "violent discourse" conservatives have made.

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