Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter
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Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:30 am
Frederick News-Post Editorial Board
Knowing Councilman Kirby Delauter as we do, we weren't surprised that he threatened The Frederick News-Post with a lawsuit because we had, he says — and we're not making this up — been putting Kirby Delauter's name in the paper without Kirby Delauter’s authorization. Attorneys would be called, Kirby Delauter said.
In fact, we spent quite some time laughing about it. Kirby Delauter, an elected official; Kirby Delauter, a public figure? Surely, Kirby Delauter can't be serious? Kirby Delauter’s making a joke, right?
Round about then, we wondered, if it’s not a joke, how should we now refer to Kirby Delauter if we can't use his name (Kirby Delauter)? Could we get away with an entire editorial of nothing but “Kirby Delauter” repeated over and over again -- Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter? OK, imagine we agreed because of temporary madness or something funny in the water that week, how would we reference "Kirby Delauter" and do our job as journalists without running afoul of our lack of authorization?
Blanks? Sure, we sometimes use hyphens in the case of expletives. Perhaps we could do that: "K---- D-------." Or, perhaps, "Councilman [Unauthorized]." We giggled a bit more than we should have when we came up with "the Councilman Formerly Known as Commissioner Kirby Delauter," which doesn't seem as funny written down in black and white and includes his name, which defeats the point. Maybe we should just put his initials, "KD," with an asterisk to a footnote (KD*), or refer to him as GLAT, the acronym for his campaign: "Govern Like A Taxpayer." We could even make it sound a little hip-hop with a well-placed hyphen: G-Lat. Speaking of, could we get away with "K-Del"? Or we could simply go with the Harry Potter-esque "He Who Shall Not be Named." (Cue the lightning strike and peal of thunder.)
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Well worth reading the rest here.
Also, my edits to the original article in bold should be taken as a clue to an Easter Egg provided by the Frederick News-Post Editorial Board.
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Hilarious!
A spanking of first order. What's that saying about picking a fight with people who buy ink by the gallon?
*Kirby Delauter
"G-Lat"
"Sherbert Deluder"
"Derby Kelauter"
and
He's now the laughing stock
He sure stepped in it - wait - he's it
And there's now a fake #kirbydelauter Twitter account to threaten people for writing Kirby Delauter: @KirbyDelauter
One Like!
Thanks hobbit!
In the words of that great orator Bugs Bunny: What a moroon, what an imbezzle, what a nincowpoop.
<The message that got James May sacked from Autocar & Motor Magazine. 23 September 1992. It reads: So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up. It's a real pain in the arse.>
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"I had this idea that if I re-edited the beginnings of all the little texts, I could make these red letters spell out a message through the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was to the effect that 'You might think this is a really great thing, but if you were sitting here making it up you'd realise it's a real pain in the arse'. It took me about two months to do it and on the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being 'put to bed' and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something." - James May
whatta schmuck 
Last edited Wed Jan 7, 2015, 11:36 AM - Edit history (1)
Frederick County official Kirby Delauter threatens to sue paper if it prints his nameMaryland Politics
By Bill Turque January 6 at 6:10 PM
@bturque
turqueb@washpost.com
Public officials unhappy with press coverage sometimes respond by freezing out the transgressing reporter, refusing interviews and ignoring messages.
Frederick County Council member Kirby Delauter (R) has added his own novel twist to the traditional silent treatment: He’s threatened to sue the local newspaper if it so much as prints his name without “authorization.”
“Use my name again unauthorized and you’ll be paying for an Attorney,” Delauter said in a Jan. 3 Facebook post addressed to Frederick News-Post reporter Bethany Rodgers. “Your rights stop where mine start.”
Call for Phillip Morris - or Kirby Delauter
Peace out, bro.
Did someone say Kirby Delauter? The best responses to the Maryland lawmaker’s Facebook rant
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By Rachel Sadon January 7 at 7:13 AM
@rachel_sadon
rachel.sadon@wpost.com
Kirby Delauter, a Frederick County Council member, took to Facebook a few days ago to threaten a newspaper reporter for using his name without permission in an article.
“Please understand, when you do a hit piece, you need to know who you’re dealing with,” Delauter said. “Use my name again unauthorized and you’ll be paying for an Attorney. Your rights stop where mine start,” he added, very publicly displaying complete ignorance of the law.
Naturally, the Internet was gleeful with snark, mockery and a fake Twitter account. Here are the best of the responses:
{snip}
Rachel Maddow: First Amendment triumphs! (Kirby Delauter)
Kirby Delauter.
So there.
