“Libtard Alert”
Elected officials took heat over spicy comments they made on the MEMernet last week.
Memphis-Shelby County School Board Member Towanna Murphy issued a formal apology days after she threatened to have a Facebook commenter deported for comments she made.
Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) raged on Facebook about a column from the Daily Memphian’s Dan Conaway. In it, Conaway criticized Taylor’s moves to remove Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy, called him a “gadfly,” and said Taylor lives in a replica of the Mississippi governor’s mansion.
For this, Taylor issued a “libtard alert,” calling Conaway “a pompous, elitist, leftwing clown … suffering from Taylor Derangement Syndrome.”
“A dog gets more useful information sniffing the ass of another dog than you get reading a Dan Conaway column,” Taylor wrote.
Otis Sanford, a longtime Memphis pundit, said, “This is one of the meanest things I have ever read from an elected official who fashions himself a public servant.”
Sanford wanted as much hubbub on Taylor’s post as Murphy’s deportation post.
“Shame on you, Senator,” Sanford wrote. “Your respect meter is plummeting toward zero.”
