But I grew up within .5 miles of... oh.

Amen! Brother amen!

Except this piece is a kind of de facto defense of Craggs’s character, no? So in those terms, I could see why someone would say ‘OK, Craggs is a good friend, but he did something shitty to Geithner.....’.

You mean other than the delusional hooker “friend”?

You don’t know what sort of arrangement he and his wife may have had. FFS, it’s not your right to know.

is eagerly taking advantage of the unsupervised open space below to post your unneeded, unwanted and ultimately entirely impertinent opinions about the post or Gawker in general, I won’t bestow upon you the validation of acknowledging your individual poorly-thought-out and selfish comments, but I will say to all of…

Where’s the double standard? Different from what? Are you just saying stuff? Here: zebra pickles.

“At some point, self-righteousness and moralism have to give way. I guess, not today. ”

You cannot possibly be this obtuse (O, who am I kidding—intentional obtuseness seems to be a job requirement for Gawker properties).

Wait so the guy who has written critical pieces on how the media (In particular Stephen A. Smith and Katie Couric) have covered Floyd Mayweather doesn’t want us to be critical of a journalist who committed a major fuck up simply because he’s friends with said journalist???? Ok.

“This is what people—including Deadspin writers—do on the internet all the time: slag on people they don’t know personally. The “But they’re actually very sweet in person!” defense wouldn’t be acknowledged by Deadspin writers, either.”

Yeah, you know or he can stop nailing himself to the cross in the name of editorial freedom and acknowledged he fucked up.

Huh. My hardwiring shows me a world where it’s every-day-common to see people who are profoundly kind to those in some particular in-group, and far baser (let’s go ahead and say evil and malicious) to anyone on the outside. Veterans sure as hell know this, and the rest of you really should, by now. Not a comment on…

OH MY GOD STOP FUCKING CRYING. HE DIDN’T FUCKING DIE. He made a horrible mistake and in the end, it cost him his job. Is there ANYONE at Gawker who can deal with this within the normal spectrum of human behavior!?

It will give way as soon as Tommy shows even an ounce of remorse for destroying someone's life for no real reason other than because he could.

This. Been a reader for years (You’d see a more robust comment history if Kinja wasn’t the bloody worst, but if everything gets crapped into the greys forever, why bother?), and my stomach turned when I saw that Geithner post. it was unbelievably shameful. Then to see the clusterfuck of internecine warfare in its wake…

Yeah, because a married father’s closeted sexuality isn’t an incredibly sensitive and personal issue or anything.

You’re talking like he died. He approved a shitty article and threw a fit when his bosses took it town.

I know you’re going to get banned, but I would like to give you many, many stars.

I really hate this running theme in all of the Gawker posts about how all of the outside criticism is coming from MRA’s/Gamergaters/Generic Reddit Trolls. Even former writers like Adam Weinstein and Lindy West cant help but bring it up almost compulsively. Everyone seems so enchanted by the victimhood of having the…