Column: Devin Nunes, 'You’re not just in a beef with a cow, you’re snorting mad at the platform itself. You want Twitter and your tweeting tormentors to pay you at least $250 million, plus punitive damages of $350,000,' writes AbcarianLAT.
Left, the Twitter feed @DevinCow, or"Devin Nunes' cow," which mercilessly mocks Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes of California's Central Valley. At right, his real twitter account. On Wednesday, Nunes filed a defamation lawsuit against the cow, and Twitter, in a Virginia court.You don’t like being called names, or being told that you belong in prison.
But when a person has a public profile — even a teensy one like mine — attacks will follow. Vilification comes with the territory. Criticism, even unfair or vile criticism, is a small price to pay for the honor of being a congressman, or a newspaper columnist. I’ve been the butt of countless jokes and insults. I have been called a “caterwauling, ululating, operatic diva.” I have been invited to kill myself to make the world a better place, been accused of being an anti-Semite and a man-hating feminist.But sticks and stones, baby. Suck it up. Somehow, as you grew up on your family’s Tulare County dairy farm, you never managed to internalize that ego-preserving message.
Instead, you are a thin-skinned public figure, willing to dish out nasty criticism about your enemies — real or perceived — but unable to take the slings that are inevitable in your line of work.attacking your local newspaper, the Fresno Bee, which, until 2018, had endorsed you every time you ran for office. You purported to reveal its “dirty little secrets.” You called out its reporters by name, accusing them of “glamorizing” your opponents by covering political demonstrations at your office.
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