Keith Olbermann quit Twitter because of me

[popehippo]

Late Wednesday night, long after I'd promised myself that I would sign off the internet, I found myself Googling Keith Olbermann's Twitter feed. He had re-tweeted a link to an article alleging that one of the women accusing Julian Assange of rape had "ties" to the CIA. That article also gave the name of the accuser. This, I understood to be a

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[darksumomo]

Several would apply here, if the incident had happened on USENET or it had been a slow month on USENET (The first list is for the awards for alt.usenet.kooks and the second list is of the awards and winners for alt.fan.art-bell, also on USENET). Off-USENET internet behavior is usually ignored unless the person involved has a USENET presence or it's especially egregious.

From the awards on the list at the first link, Sady might have qualified for the Salinger Hook Line & Sinker since she actually was trying to engage Olbermann and Moore (a form of trolling), and not just kvetching about them in a location where she didn't think they'd notice. Olbermann would definitely have qualified for the Drama Queen (flouncing) and Special Ops Cody (shooting himself in the foot) and might have qualified for the Allisat Hook Line & Sinker for biting on Sady's hook.

Sady wouldn't have qualified for any of the awards on the second list, but Olbermann would have qualified for the Chernobyl Award and the Office of the Wicked Witch, both of which honor melting down. He might also have qualified for the Cleopatra Award for denial.