The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens. https://t.co/k4qo6QzIBW
— davekarpf (@davekarpf) August 26, 2019
Media goes after other people but can’t even take a small jab back.
Bret Stephens, a columnist for the New York Times, deactivated his Twitter account after being mocked for taking offense to a man who called him a “bedbug.”
Stephens, 45, who has championed free speech, was enraged by a tweet by George Washington University professor David Karpf, who compared an infestation of bedbugs at the New York Times office to the conservative columnist.
“The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens,” Karpf jibed.
Karpf said Stephens emailed him, copying his boss, the university provost. In the email, Stephens said that “someone” alerted him to the tweet. He invited Karpf to “come to my home, meet my wife and kids, talk to us for a few minutes, and then call me a ‘bedbug’ to my face.”