I think he may be slightly annoyed:
Take a bow, media.
With 50,000 of you on full-time staff, all alerted to this story, you could not, or would not, do the job one man — a hobbyist — with a fucking brain and a keyboard could do.
One man with — remember this? — the desire to pursue a story and go where it took it.
Remember that?
You may have heard someone say that in a movie once.
Now, this Sunday, talk up how the reasons for missing this story were so terribly understandable and really, the public should forgive you your lapses, because they were so goshdarn well-meaning!
I even put it in the most acceptable terms possible to alert you that there really was a huge story here.You still ignored it. And I know you were reading.
Patterico knew the text messages. So did I.
And so could you have, if you bothered to read for an hour.
But you didn’t.
So do tell us all, this Sunday, how the people who missed the story, denied the story, spun the story, ignored the story, botched the story, suppressed the story, denigrated the story, and simply refused to even print the story once other people even typed it up for you are somehow the responsible, credible, professional ones, and the people who’ve had it right from Hour One are the unprofessional ones without credibility.
Oh, and PS:
Fuck you all to hell.
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What Patterico did to that poor girl is far worse than anything Weiner did.
What a disgusting old perv he is.
Did you read that on a menu board?
Or write it?
Yeah, reporting a story without using names is “perverted” according to
the Democrats that Tweet sex talk with little girls. The national media
doesn’t cover it because it’s too sordid. Now choke on your own vomit, poncehole.
What Patterico did? What Patterico did? My God, Ponce, this, is disgusting even for you. Ponce, there was never, ever any legitimate reason for a 46 year old married man to be sending private messages to a high school girl. There is nothing to excuse this. Had Congressman Weeiniewagger anything legitimate to say to this child it could have been in normal, public tweets.