Twitter Erupts at Bret Stephens' WWII Column With a Stunning and

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. So, for example, is 'leech'. But that doesn't mean that all the jokes about the Washington leech

with 3 jaws and 59 teeth were wrong, and worth reporting someone to their superior about. If you see a news story about Washington DC and leeches, the jokes write themselves, and you don't expect to find some thin-skinned politician saying it's a Nazi tactic to compare an individual, or a group, to a leech for their behaviour. Similarly, you don't expect a standard joke riffing off bedbugs in the NYT building and a dubious person (hated for his opinions, not what he was born as) in there to get called Nazi-like.

The author of the joke has replied on Twitter:

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"The premise of my Monday joke was that Bret Stephens is irritating and impossible to remove from the NYT newsroom.

Last night, Stephens used his column to pursue a personal grudge. He implied I'm a nazi. The NYT has said nothing.

Stephens is irritating & impossible to remove."