NYT's Bret Stephens Quits Twitter After Getting Called Out For Trying to Get Prof Fired For Calling Him A 'Bedbug'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Aug. 27, 2019

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on Tuesday compared himself to the victims of "totalitarian regimes" after facing backlash for allegedly trying to get a professor fired for calling him a "bedbug" on Twitter.

Dave Karpf, an associate professor at George Washington University, revealed on Monday night that Stephens sent a letter to him and cc'ed his provost complaining about Karpf referring to him as a "bedbug" in a tweet.

Alright fine... here is the email: pic.twitter.com/A4E5I6CoB6
— davekarpf (@davekarpf) August 27, 2019

Stephens on Tuesday quit Twitter and played the victim:

.@BretStephensNYT on quitting Twitter after being called a “bedbug”:

“Analogizing people to insects is always wrong … Being analogized to insects goes back to a lot of totalitarian regimes in the past." pic.twitter.com/Iyh9PpK2HS
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 27, 2019

NY Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on Sunday similarly suggested he and his paper were the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy because some trolls were searching through Times employees old tweets and sharing their findings to embarrass them.

These are the people demanding the entire internet be censored.

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