These guys too:

You could easily pay me six figures to rant like Bret Stephens. I feel like I generally write more than he does on a per-week basis, and I do it for free.

I assume Bret feels the same way about the dehumanizing language that the person who wrote this used.

okay I was way off-base on this one... it was a TV appearance

Referring to disfavored groups of people as insects or, say, talking about people seeking asylum as “invaders” is totalitarian and dangerous. Calling Bret Stephens a metaphorical bed bug is moderately clever.

The stupid thing is that Twitter wasn’t his undoing, it was the email he sent.

That initial tweet with 9 likes and 0 retweets is now a headline story. Good job Streisanding yourself, Bret.

Bret Stephens is the stooge who basically said Tucker Carlson can say whatever racist shit he wants because of free speech but someone calls this sensitive little baby a bug and he tries to get him fired ? What a massive tool

And sometimes, if you’re really lucky, in that sewer you get to see a single bedbug rise up...and then deactivate his account.

Bretshit

“Call me a bed bug, will you? Well just for that I’m going to get super annoying and relentless, invading your personal space. WHO IS THE BED BUG NOW?”

You basically have to pronounce that like Bret-zit.

Being paid large sums of money to write the same three columns over again, occasionally punctuated with one on how people are mean to him on Twitter, and then complaining to the manager is worthy of a lifetime achievement award in White Privilege.

I would frame that email and put it up in my office just like I framed the printout from the College Republicans website at a previous university that declared me a “communist indoctrinator.”

So to recap, Mr. “Our Society is Collapsing Because Free Speech on College Campuses is Being Threatened by Snowflakes!” is trying to get a media professor fired for a bit of criticism delivered as a harmless, pithy joke. 

#Bretxit

I just re-joined Twitter like a month ago after a multi-year absence, and barely use it, but this whole situation has delighted me to no end.

What a passive aggressive little shit tattletaling to the provost.

I’m guessing that the same person/entity who bailed out Boofin’ Brett Kavanaugh from his debts will magically take care of Walsh’s, too.

No. She ran a fine campaign. Not really remarkably better or worse than most modern presidential campaigns in any way.