{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.}
Back in early 2007, some high school kids made fun of Republican state sen. Scott Brown on Facebook; and, as we all know, Brown went to their high school and used foul language right back at ‘em. Because that’ll show ‘em, a grown man cursing out some children.
Scott Brown must have some pretty thin skin for internet criticism.
Fast forward to 2009. The same Republican state sen. Scott Brown enters the special election for the U.S. Senate seat. He decides on a campaign logo (something that, while seemingly very simple, many campaigns spend a lot of time considering as it’s the design meant to graphically represent their campaigns):
Subsequently, Blue Mass Group readers have a little fun at Brown’s expense, mocking the confusing nature of the logo.
Well, Republican Scott Brown again illustrates a very thin skin for online criticism. If you mosey on over to his campaign website, we see a scaled back campaign logo – a logo suddenly missing the confusing graphic image that BMG readers teased Brown about:
A little bit of gentle ribbing online from a small group of bloggers and Brown alters his campaign logo – something you’d think he and his campaign staff might have put a bit of thought into before entering the race.
It just seems curious that Republican Scott Brown would have such a thin skin for rather mild criticism.
Discuss
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Wasn't the issue that the high school kids made fun of Scott Brown's daughter?
You're wrong
The statements he read were all about him. The students had started a facebook page to mock him and his position on gay marriage.
The real issue is that he used his position to gain access to the students to rant at them. It's about abuse of power and bad decision making.
And don't forget
being a dick.
And as his Cosmo spread will
demonstrate, a rather beefcakey one at that, in his own humble opinion.
No, it appears that you are wrong.
I found the Boston Globe article on this. http://www.boston.com/news/loc...
you're confusing the spin with the facts
The important words are "some" and "made reference."
You're confused.
You are substituting what you would have liked to have happened with what actually happened.
Not at all
I actually remember what happened. See below before you go all EaBo.
there are several more detailed sources
Here's Brown's official statement after the incident.
The Sun Chronicle was far less kind:
Metrowest got specific:
So, as you see, it was hardly about people attacking his daughter. The real issue remains Mr. Brown's bad judgement and abuse of power.
Did you ready these?
His daughter is mentioned.
yes, of course I did
His daughter is clearly not what he was ranting about His more recent spin has emphasized his family, but even his own official statement belies that.
It's instructive to compare the MetroWest statements on 10 February with the official statement on 13 February. The official statement already talking about "some members of my family" rather than the one reference to his daughter from the MetroWest version. Basically, he was getting so much flack for what he did that he had to come up with SOMETHING to justify it.
Again, even if the issue were that "high school kids made fun of Scott Brown's daughter" (which it wasn't), his reaction was completely inappropriate.
Yes
Brown took it personally - which is reasonable - and responded with a major-league dick move - which was completely out of line, inappropriate, ill-conceived, and stupid. Just what I don't want in a lawmaker. If he were a member of my party, I would be mortified.
Amen to abuse of power and bad decision-making
Don't forget to also include pure bad manners. Scott Brown, the Kanye West of Massachusetts politics.
And that logo...
I was puzzled as to what it was myself, but after reading this it is clear that it was supposed to be a phoenix. That's the theme apparently.
Far from not being able to take criticism, it appears that he did take criticism and constructively at that. It's suddenly gone missing because no one understood it. I particularly liked benwetmore's comment at RMG.
So as I haven't had time to mosey over to RMG and so forth
Is there a "thin skin" evident there?
As to the log, looks more like responsiveness then "thin skin" - responsiveness is NOT a bad thing.
As to using crude and hyper-aroused language when teens were rowdy and inappropriate, I suggest there were better ways to handle that albeit the protective-father thing is less worse than the poster suggested.
I look for responsiveness, self-discipline, fortitude, ability to build and manage team efforts, accessibility, good boundaries, intelligence, the ability to delegate as well as work hard, and practicality/pragmatism. Not too much to ask .... for me, therefore, my preferred Senate candidate for the US Senate is Martha Coakley.
You note, I did not list "agrees with me on all issues all of the time."
It's certainly an improvement
though some of these criticisms still apply.
I admit, I did not get the "phoenix" reference.
(And, what's with the blue smoke? Where are the mirrors?)
One advantage to the $quot;pre-washed$quot; background
Lawn signs will look consistent - they'll all appear faded and rain-damaged from the start.
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