{"id":184961,"date":"2011-11-24T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/24\/the-unbelievable-wankitude-that-is-sam-brownback\/"},"modified":"2011-11-24T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T02:23:00","slug":"the-unbelievable-wankitude-that-is-sam-brownback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/24\/the-unbelievable-wankitude-that-is-sam-brownback\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbelievable Wankitude that is Sam Brownback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seriously. It appears that a girl watching Sam Brownback address a mock legislature tweeted that he “sucked”, and Brownback’s office found her tweet and contacted school authorities<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students.<\/p>\n

Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on Monday as part of Kansas Youth in Government, a program for students interested in politics and government.<\/p>\n

During the session, in which Brownback addressed the group, Sullivan posted on her personal Twitter page:<\/p>\n

\u201cJust made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Sullivan was called to her principal\u2019s office and told that the tweet had been flagged by someone on Brownback\u2019s staff and reported to organizers of the Youth in Government program.<\/p>\n

The principal \u201claid into me about how this was unacceptable and an embarrassment,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cHe said I had created this huge controversy and everyone was up in arms about it \u2026 and now he had to do damage control.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m mainly shocked that they would even see that tweet and be concerned about me,\u201d she said. \u201cI just honestly feel they\u2019re making a lot bigger deal out of it than it actually was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan said the principal ordered her to write letters of apology to Brownback, the school\u2019s Youth in Government sponsor, the district\u2019s social studies coordinator and others.<\/p>\n

Karl Krawitz, the school principal, did not return calls or e-mails Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes without saying that Krawitz is a bully and a coward, full of demands when he’s leaning on a student, and silent when the press calls, though in all fairness, being a bully and a coward depending on circumstances is pretty much the definition<\/b> of a Principal’s job.<\/p>\n

That being said, the fact that any<\/b> political operation decided to go after a teenager over a tweet is pathetic beyond belief.  This is “Michelle Malkin stalking a 12-year old over his support of S-Chip<\/a>” pathetic.<\/p>\n

It’s also deeply evil, and un-American. <\/p>\n

Just when I think that the ‘Phants could not go any lower, I am disabused of this quaint notion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously. It appears that a girl watching Sam Brownback address a mock legislature tweeted that he “sucked”, and Brownback’s office found her tweet and contacted school authorities: A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students. Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,969,997,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-evil","category-internet","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}