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1/23/2017

Adult Woman Who Hate-Tweeted 10 Year Old Boy Suspended By Her Employer

Filed under: General — Dana @ 8:40 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Suspended indefinitely

On Friday night I posted about NBC Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich, who made an ugly Twitter attack on 10 year old Barron Trump. After the internet got very angry with her for her intolerable behavior, Rich locked her Twitter account.

Today, there is a report that NBC has suspended Rich indefinitely:

She was suspended immediately after her tweet, and her suspension is indefinite, according to someone familiar with the plans at “S.N.L.,” who was not authorized by NBC to comment on personnel matters.

That tweet on Friday, during Mr. Trump’s inauguration ceremony, drew widespread condemnation, and Ms. Rich subsequently deleted the post (which said “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter”) and deactivated her Twitter account. Her name did not appear in the closing credits of “Saturday Night Live” in its broadcast on Saturday.

Rich opened her Twitter account today to apologize, not directly to President and Mrs. Trump, nor to Barron, but just a general, generic apology:

“I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet. I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I’m so sorry.”

It’s interesting that the report claims she was suspended immediately after posting her foul tweet on Friday at 12:07 pm, and yet it took three days for her to apologize. I guess a loss of income and work can do that to a person, if not a troubled conscience. But hey, maybe it’s possible that Rich wasn’t able to tweet her apology until today because she was still recovering from marching in “solidarity with our… children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families” on Saturday…

With that, a comedienne named Nikki Glaser, whose show I have never watched, had this reaction to Rich’s suspension:

glaser

I realize this isn’t nearly the biggest news of the day, but it’s an interesting question of whether people should be suspended from, or lose their jobs because the righteously angry got out their pitchforks and made some noise about it.

–Dana

62 Responses to “Adult Woman Who Hate-Tweeted 10 Year Old Boy Suspended By Her Employer”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (023079)

  2. Hello, Dana.

    “Suspended indefinitely” is what you do to your star college running back who crashes his car while driving drunk with a bunch of undressed and underaged girls smoking weed in the back. It generally means he misses a non-conference game before being brought back into the good graces of the team. I wonder what the SNL version of this is.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  3. Watched the SNL credit roll on this past weekend’s show- her name was not listed in the writer credits.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  4. My guess is that suspending indefinitely is what happens when a high-profile entity has been pressured so much by an angry public that they have to do something that appears as if they take the complaints seriously. Throw the masses a bone, and if it appears to be enough to quell the anger, then she’s back on the job in no time.

    Dana (023079)

  5. it’s an interesting question of whether people should be suspended from, or lose their jobs because the righteously angry got out their pitchforks and made some noise about it.

    It depends what sort of job they have. For instance, public servants are generally protected by the first amendment for their expressions of opinion, and can’t be fired for them. Thus, for instance, a civilian worker in a Texan sheriff’s office reacted to the attempt to kill Reagan by saying “next time I hope they get him”; the sheriff fired her, she sued, and the Supreme Court ruled for her.

    But if their job involves public interaction, and what they said would interfere with that interaction, then they can be fired. One obvious example is a spokesman or publicist, but another is a cop. If that Reagan-hater had been a deputy, and therefore her job had been to go out and deal with people rather than sitting all day at a desk, then she’d have lost her case. Cops are routinely fired for public racist remarks or displays, for this reason. The remark makes them ineffective at their job, so they can’t keep it.

    Milhouse (40ca7b)

  6. It’s just a little bit ironic — and not in an Alanis Morrissette kind of way — that the progressives are freaking out that Katie Bich (sic) has been suspended by Saturday Night Liars for her tweet.
    After all, these same progressives are always trying to get anyone fired who says something they don’t like. A few years ago, they got the CEO of Mozilla fired simply for having contributed to the marriage referendum in California.

    Anyhow, there needs to be an investigation into why Katie Bich (sic) hates 10 year old boys. Maybe there’s some kind of sensitivity training that NBC can send her to. Like maybe in Syria? Or Libya?

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  7. Yeah, I thought about Brendan Eich when I wrote the post.

    Dana (023079)

  8. Nikki Glaser is attractive looking, but she’s nasty nasty nasty. Take a look at her Twitter scroll.
    I wouldn’t even allow her into my living room with that nasty attitude and foul mouth.
    … well, unless she was sent over by the escort agency! (LOL)

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  9. NBC has a policy about this, and she violated it. Sucks to be her.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  10. In other news, 70-year old who hate-tweeted Heidi Cruz, decorated PoWs, gold-star mothers and sexual assault victims begins first full week in the Oval Office.

    Dave (711345)

  11. This post (and the one Friday), just like almost every article I’ve read about it (including the NYTimes) fails to mention that a republican staffer was forced to resign, not suspended, for remarks about the Obama girls needing to “show some class” and saying they were dressed like they were “at a bar”. These remarks were described as “verbal assault” by MSNBC.

    Will be interested to see how MSNBC describes a tweet suggesting Barron Trump is destined to commit mass murder.

    harkin (afc7a6)

  12. I realize this isn’t nearly the biggest news of the day, but it’s an interesting question of whether people should be suspended from, or lose their jobs because the righteously angry got out their pitchforks and made some noise about it.

    –Dana

    Yeah, the tolerant left like Missie Glazer will rush to defend a republican if they did the same thing to…..Oh I don’t know, maybe Obama’s daughters? Nah, I didn’t think so!

    Elizabeth Lauten, the Republican congressional aide who faced a backlash after sharply criticizing the first daughters, has resigned. Lauten told NBC News that “she is ‘resigning today’ following her comments about Sasha and Malia Obama,” according to a tweet from an NBC News Capitol Hill producer.Dec 1, 2014

    And all she said was that basically they should act a little more appropriate and dress a little more formally while in the public eye! Didn’t accuse them of being shooters in waiting at all!

    Yoda jr (310909)

  13. Dang it, musta been typing mine while you were posting yours harkin!

    Yoda jr (310909)

  14. Punch-drunk humor. She should seek immediate medical care. Glaser, too.

    As for her job… repent and sin no more.

    nn (6e1d51)

  15. Yoda jr:

    Can someone with a Pro-Choice quasi-religious/moral philosophy, selective, opportunistic, and unprincipled, technically be described as a hypocrite, a bigot — sanctimonious hypocrite?

    nn (6e1d51)

  16. Dave, I’m sorry to inform you RODHAM lost. Rodham is NOT in the oval office, and the BENGHAZI PATRIOTS are still DEAD.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  17. Nn, just cut to the chase and call that person a LIBTARD. It covers all the bases.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  18. Not only is Katie Rich way out of line, but she is a new level of blow hard.
    I know Katie, you’re so BUTT HURT that Rodham lost, but get a clue Ms Rich.
    Whether you like them or not, the TRUMP offspring are all VERY VERY accomplished educated and civil.

    What about that makes you want to lose your job the most???? Why a RIP on a 10 year little boy??

    Because you are a liberal and have no moral compass.

    GUS (30b6bd)

  19. I think the difference between this and Brendan Eich is that Eich was expressing a political opinion, in a mature, adult way, by donating money to help campaign for a cause he believed in.

    Katie Rich, on the other hand, was publicly picking on a ten-year-old and saying nasty things about him because she doesn’t like his father.

    The former should not be punished if you want to live in a civil society.

    The latter should be punished if you want to live in a civil society.

    Robin Munn (514285)

  20. 10.In other news, 70-year old who hate-tweeted Heidi Cruz, decorated PoWs, gold-star mothers and sexual assault victims begins first full week in the Oval Office.

    “Andddd loving it.”– Maxwell Smart [Don Adams] ‘Get Smart’ NBC TV, 1966

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  21. This is usually a network standards and practices thing in their contracts.

    If Rich had been a writer, say for The Daily Show depending on Viacom’s own standards and practices and contract particulars, she might have gotten away with it as cablers are unregulated but the networks are, and pretty wary of these kind of things. [I’m old enough to remember Jack Parr’s ‘watercloset’ joke and the fiasco that caused NBC.] Lorne Michaels had to be involved in this decision, too. If Rich had written that into a script skit it likely wouldn’t have made it past the head writers or Michaels and gone to air or would have been dropped during the rehearsals before the final SNL air.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  22. Hate – tweeted?

    Sounds kind of subjective. Squishy. Jelloish. Tailor made for abuse by bigots and mind midgets.

    What Eich and Elizabeth Lauten did was no crime, party foul, or even a new fangled hate-tweet.

    It’s all nice and kissy face, kowtowing to 1900’s Democrats to have a “rule” about President’s kids, especially one the lap dog press is only too eager to comply with, but it’s not our tradition.

    Seems to me that pols seize on any new wiggle of technology as a pretext to become speech code enforcers.
    When politicians kids are off limits it’s to their associates and their own detriment. They get raised up to be immunized terrorists like former Calif Speaker Fabian’s little bambino, Esteban Nunez.

    A little harsh language from the politically correct circles of false moral umbrage, and Ron Reagan Jr. might have grown up to be a person of substance.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  23. Esteban Nunez is a murderous sack of shit who should be in prison still.
    Ron Jr. is a worm tongued mush head who should have never been handed a microphone.
    The Obama kids are on the cusp of becoming poster kids for the concept of low expectations, sacrificed on the alter of “keeping it real”.

    Not surprising at all that Chelsea Clinton jumps to Baron Trump’s defense, the free ride she’s been handed. She’s a living the gravy train switch yard.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  24. Esteban Nunez is a murderous sack of [editted] who should be in prison still.
    Ron Jr. is a worm tongued mush head who should have never been handed a microphone.
    The Obama kids are on the cusp of becoming poster kids for the concept of low expectations, sacrificed on the alter of “keeping it real”.

    Not surprising at all that Chelsea Clinton jumps to Baron Trump’s defense, the free ride she’s been handed. She’s a living the gravy train switch yard.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  25. NBC can do what they want to with SNL writers. By my reckoning they’re a dime a dozen anyhow.
    (One of them is a Senator, much to the disgrace of Minnesota)
    But I hope the girl gets her job back (and a suitably colorful pseudonym for tweeting in future).

    papertiger (c8116c)

  26. I take it you’re talking about me.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  27. Murderous?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  28. That’s bit much, don’t you think?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  29. Like Milhouse said, the First Amendment only applies to government action. For private employers, it depends on your contract. There are a lot of considerations that go into it and in addition to the image the employer wants to project, there is also the discipline and morale of coworkers.

    nk (dbc370)

  30. I’ve seen lurid clickbait about Mr. Barron promoted on conservative sites what’s far more lacerating than this snl hoochie’s lame snl attempt at snl humor

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  31. This isn’t the first time NBC has had to deal with it’s personnel tweeting Death Wishes about Trump.

    http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/06/22/producer-for-hit-nbc-show-american-ninja-warrior-calls-would-be-trump-assassin-a-good-guy-with-a-gun/

    In a just world, this writer wouldn’t have to be punished and we could let twitter shenanigans be just that. But the Left created the rule that if you say anything untoward in any medium, You. Must. Suffer. Sorry Liberals, but you wrote the rule: you gotta follow it.

    SaveFarris (3c0029)

  32. NBC News is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television!

    Probably funnier than Aziz’s monologue.

    I take Glaser’s point about weak-tea NBC policies, but what self-respecting free artist would sign up with an outfit like that to begin with?

    For a purportedly “irreverent” show SNL isn’t exactly tearing down the walls of conventionality.

    JP (f1742c)

  33. — You attacked a ten-year old!
    — Well, he should have been born sooner and grown quicker.

    Don’t you know that this is the age of pragmatism, you namby-pamby ideologues?

    nk (dbc370)

  34. http://www.humoretc.com/mhcontent/oaths.php

    U.S. NAVY OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

    I, Top Gun, in lieu of going to prison, swear to sign away four years of my life to the United States Navy because I want to hang out with Marines without actually having to BE one of them, because I thought the Air Force was too “corporate,” and because I thought, “Hey, I like to swim…Why not?”

    I promise to wear clothing that went out of style in 1976 and to have my name stenciled on the butt of every pair of pants I own. I understand that I will be mistaken for the Good Humor man during the summer, and for the Waffen SS during the winter. I will strive to use a different language than the rest of the English-speaking world, using words like “deck, bulkhead, cover, and head,” when I really mean “floor, wall, hat, and toilet.” I will take great pride in the fact that all Navy acronyms, ranks and insignia, and everything else for that matter, are completely different from the other services and make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  35. I will muster (whatever that is) at 0700 hours every morning unless I am buddy-buddy with the Chief, in which case I will show up around 0930 hours.

    I vow to hone my coffee cup handling skills to the point that I can stand up in a kayak being tossed around in a typhoon and still not spill a drop.

    I consent to being promoted and subsequently busted at least twice each fiscal year. I realize that, once selected for Chief, I am required to submit myself to the sick, and quite possibly illegal, whims of my new-found “colleagues.” So help me Neptune.

    Signature:__________________ Date:_______________

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  36. #28 nk, to follow up on what you just said, a lot of personalities in the media have clauses in their contract which make it easy for their employer to suspend or dismiss them for public behavior or public comments which they feel cross the line.
    That’s how ESPN justified dismissing Curt Shilling several months ago in response to a few of his private tweets.

    Katie Bich (sic) is lucky she was only suspended. Just imagine if she’d been a Republican tweeting that about Sasha Obama.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  37. Esteban Nunez

    I thought this was Spanish code for Steve57.

    Maybe I was wrong.

    I thought it as funny.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  38. Your dad’s named Fabian? Even the Los Angeles freaking Times agrees.
    http://graphics.latimes.com/nunez-santos-part-2/
    Nunez is a cold blooded killer, who was given special treatment before the law not once, not twice, but during his entire worthless existence.
    Imagine if he had heard the word ‘no’ spoken with some character behind it. Even once.

    “No poptarts, Esteban. You’re having Corn Flakes.”

    What a different world it would be.

    I’m still chafed by the comics code authority.
    [a more direct and literal attack by congress on the first amendment – “for the kids”]

    papertiger (c8116c)

  39. JFK Jr.

    Someone at least once, maybe his flight instructor, out of deference to the last name told him, “You have the makings to be a pretty good pilot.”

    Saved us from ANOTHER generation of that family, so maybe that nameless flight instructor deserves a medal.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  40. Sorry, papertiger. No laughing matter.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  41. Whose laughing?
    It’s 9 o’clock in the morning here.
    This is me sober as a judge.

    Still too soon for Kennedy Jr. jokes?

    papertiger (c8116c)

  42. I was laughing when I was under the mistaken impression you called me a murderous sack of (blank).

    I’ve been called lots of things, but never that.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  43. kennedys are yucky

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  44. Now that I know the truth of it, no laughing matter.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  45. This is me sober as a judge.

    I don’t think anybody involved was sober.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3108318/Court-upholds-sentence-son-Schwarzenegger-ally.html

    ‘Grossly unjust’ of Arnold Schwarzenegger to slash manslaughter jail term of political ally’s son on last day in office as governor – but court rules that it cannot be changed

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  46. Schwarzenegger’s a sleazy maid humper

    he’s kind of an honorary Kennedy

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  47. I wouldn’t call you that Steve. You’re one of my favorite turds.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  48. The hell of it all is, this Nunez kid will probably have a good life. For most people a felony means you’re eking out a living recycling aluminum cans. Or, going back to crime. But this guy, his Daddy can pull strings.

    Did something else happen? The last article I can find is from 2015.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  49. Always proud to be someone’s favorite turds. Also, I am probably a sack of (blank).

    Just not a murderous one.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  50. Its better to be “The Sh*t” (as in “I’m the Sh*t – the rest of you are just turds” or “The Sh*t Amongst Turds”).

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  51. The elder Nunez was likely the model for the a-hole Captain/later Councilman Aceveda in The Shield

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  52. Adult?

    J Cass (934bbb)

  53. And idiot Orrin Hatch wanted to amend the Constitution to allow Schwarzenegger to run for President. BTW, did you know that Schwarzenegger translates as “as someone who pricks (or prods with a sharp object i.e. goad) blacks”?

    nk (dbc370)

  54. nk, that’s a new one on me. Fits him though.

    Nunez kid is out, free to do unto others again. Only news I got on him.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  55. 24.NBC can do what they want to with SNL writers. By my reckoning they’re a dime a dozen anyhow.

    Well, maybe a quarter… but they’re young and often burn out very, very fast. Nature of the beast. Interviewed one for a gig a long time ago and she was all of 25 and fried.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  56. I take Glaser’s point about weak-tea NBC policies

    She’s as dumb as a rock– dare I say ’30 Rock’. Doesn’t know what’s she’s tweeting about. Networks aren’t comedy clubs or cable TV. Nets have standards and practices they must adhere to.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  57. Katie and Nikki want the latitude to talk smack when they want to talk smack, but then when there’s pushback, they want the ability to retreat to a … safe space!

    It kind of reminds me of some of our friends.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  58. Doesn’t know what’s she’s tweeting about. Networks aren’t comedy clubs or cable TV. Nets have standards and practices they must adhere to.

    All true, and furthermore she should be using a plural form of insult rather than singular.

    Doesn’t mean she’s wrong about the powers-that-be being a retiring bunch, or that NBC’s relevant policies are well drafted or communicated.

    JP (f1742c)

  59. “BTW, did you know that Schwarzenegger translates as “as someone who pricks (or prods with a sharp object i.e. goad) blacks”?”

    More like someone dark who utilizes a sharp implement.

    Arnold himself says it means “black plowman”, which seems to fit.

    Harkin (fabf46)

  60. Nope. “Schwarzen” with the -en ending is the objective or possessive case. “Of the black”. It would be “Schwarzer” for what Schwarzenegger says. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwarz#Declension

    nk (dbc370)

  61. And I hope you don’t think that I think that it has any significance. Ulysses S. Grant’s real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. The registrar at West Point put down Ulysses S. Grant by mistake and Grant just kept it.

    nk (dbc370)

  62. Or maybe:

    “Schwarzenegger is a German surname that means person from Schwarzenegg, which is both a village in Switzerland (currently split between the municipalities of Unterlangenegg and Oberlangenegg) and a place in Land Salzburg in Austria. “Schwarzen” means “black”, and “egg” (from the same root as the German word “ecke” for “corner”) refers to a ridge, e.g., Eggli (long ridge), Eggiman (lives on a ridge), and Eggler (farms on a ridge).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_(surname)

    Harkin (afc7a6)


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