USA Today Columnist Urges Motorists To ‘Run Down’ Protesters On North Carolina Highway

[Duppers]

Source: HuffPo

Protesters blocked traffic on a highway in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. In response, a conservative columnist tweeted that motorists should “run down” the demonstrators.

Conservative USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds caused an uproar on Twitter when he urged motorists to drive over protesters blocking a highway in North Carolina.

“Run them down,” Reynolds, who also produces the Instapundit website, tweeted late Wednesday with an image of the protesters on I-277.

Twitter suspended the account, but The Huffington Post preserved a screenshot of the tweet:







Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/glenn-reynolds-instapundit-protesters_us_57e37445e4b0e80b1ba06a85

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He should be fired from the paper and from the University of Tennessee.

Be sure to read the tweets in the article.

[Divine Discontent]

1. Further evidence of Trump's sick rhetoric spreading like the diseased brainwashing before WWII that

bred hatred for Jews and others among the citizenry.

Having a national newspaper columnist telling drivers to RUN THEM DOWN is beyond disgusting. Yes, he should be fired from all of his jobs. It's like one of those Trump statements about Hillary and guns where he said see what happens. What happens to someone run down? Pretty obvious.

Someone with that kind of reach spewing those kind of directives isn't fit to hold those positions.

[Duppers]

3. Ck his Wiki page.

Interesting info there.

Here's what the jerk looks like - not surprising, heh.



He tried to do a Trump-like take-back on his "Run them down" wording but his explanation doesn't work at all. He said what he thought and meant to begin with. Yes, disgusting and deplorable. He's definitely unfit to teach.

[Divine Discontent]

4. eye roll! barf

They're just all the same... so giddy about big bad gunz they gotta smile when they're holding a BIG ONE! "see how manly it makes me holding this?"

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Those are gigantic bullets

in that phantom hand at the side of the photo.... like for taking out an elephant or something.

[Divine Discontent]

7. yeah, just so ridiculous. even my gun nutter relatives do not have anything like that. n/t

[freebrew]

30. Seriously...

what does something like that cost?

Way more $$$ than brain.

[Judi Lynn]

29. "Giddy" is the right word. He looks positively thrilled with his giant gun. n/t

[paleotn]

12. He's better known at Instaputz n/t

[lonestarnot]

20. Just like I thought he would look.

[Midnight Writer]

35. He needs a big gun to fight overreaching Government agents, like, say, abusive cops.

A lawyer encouraging violent crime, a patriot against free assembly, a conservative in favor of police oppression.

A thrice blessed hypocrite.

God help him and the police if they ever pull this guy over.

[GliderGuider]

39. A Barrett .50

Schoolboy Viagra.

[Granny M]

2. Deplorable much? nt

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Another into the deplorable basket.

And better be out at USA Today after this.

[Skittles]

8. not good

I understand the anger - I think blocking traffic is stupid and dangerous, no matter what your grievance....but advocating murder is fucked up.

[jmowreader]

9. I'm not really as familiar with Tennessee law as I should be...

...but a LAW PROFESSOR should have the common sense to know intentionally running people over is illegal.

[liberal N proud]

10. But don't call him deplorable

[riversedge]

11. K and R.

[paleotn]

13. Instaputz!

I'm not in the least surprised. For those who haven't heard of him, this ultra-white, doughy, sorry ass excuse for a human has been spouting such things and worse for years. East TN has spawned some serious pieces of shit over the years, and Putz is one of the worst. I wouldn't piss on his ass if he were on fire.

[Duppers]

31. East TN

Yep, I should know. Posted below about that.

According to Wiki, this jerk was spawned in Alabama. The mud just gets deeper the farther south one goes.




Hubs and I are are moving back to retire in the Smokies. Those mountains tug at our hearts - we spent our dating years hiking them and they are by far the main reason we're going back . We have land "smack dab" on the Park's boundary. You should see our long distance, breath-taking view. I do worry, however, about being able to tolerate the bigoted culture again. We've been gone almost 40yrs.

[Tarc]

14. This has to be considered a criminal act, right?

A literal incitement to commit vehicular assault, broadcast to millions?

[Augiedog]

15. The bigger the gun, the tinier the penis, direct proportional relationship. Rub that gun.

[cstanleytech]

16. So, a law professor is advising people to break the law?

[Dustlawyer]

17. Hope he would want to protest if his metal penis was taken away!

[Uponthegears]

18. If his name had been "Omar Glen Mateen"

and he had called for people to "run down" US citizens, he would have had the black bag put over his head five minutes after his tweet and had his privileged posterior shipped off to GITMO.

#deplorabledomesticterrorism, #UTLawFireReynolds

[lonestarnot]

19. So another terrorist attack encouraged without penalty just like the assassination spew coming from

the roadkill. Here's an attack that's going without prosecution
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/driver-who-plowed-through-michigan-students-protesting-leave-ns-graffiti-will-face-no-charges/

[Festivito]

21. So, that is him protesting against other people protesting. Let me guess. No sense of irony.

So, he wants to unconstitutionally non-peacefully protest against the constitutional peaceful assembly because he does not like protesters.

I wonder if this person knows of words such as dumb, stupid or idiot. Then we might try for ironically challenged.

[MynameisBlarney]

22. Incitement

He should be arrested.

[Duppers]

37. Sure sounds like it! nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Glenn Reynolds: Donald Trump is the response to a bullying culture

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/31/donald-trump-politically-correct-speech-codes-column/85163810/

[Duppers]

24. Good catch! Trump IS the "bullying culture."

Last edited Fri Sep 23, 2016, 03:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Not a response to it!!

The more I read about this law prof, the lower my opinion grows of UT's law school. I personally know two attorneys who were graduated there - one of whom I'd love to see pushing up daisies. The other, I used to call a good friend but that relationship went south when I found she was supporting wingers. Now, I think even less of this law school.

Yes, I'm from that neck of the woods, as we say down south. There's a sickness in that part of the country. However, when you find a good liberal, we're usually ferociously so.

Sorry I didn't have time to give the proper attention to the article you linked this morning. This "chaired" prof railed against political correctness, as if he agreed that it's the worst thing EVER.

Thanks for adding very good info to this thread.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

41. Thanks!

This "chaired" prof railed against political correctness, as if he agreed that it's the worst thing EVER.

That's probably his privilege showing.

I've traveled through that area a few times and I thought the people were very nice, but I'm white.

Back in the early 80's (when I was a kid), my Dad stopped at a restaurant near the TN-KY border during our drive home from a vacation. Mom and I waited in the car as he walked inside to place a carry-out order. Dad came back with no food and his body was shaking, which was a sign of him being angry. He said the black family who'd walked inside the restaurant in front of him were told that they had to eat outside despite tables/seats being available inside that place! I indeed saw the black family eating at an outside table. We ate somewhere else hours up the interstate.

EDIT: Another story! This one's more recent. I drove to New Orleans to see Ohio State beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl less than two years ago. On my way back home, I stopped at a place called "Sad Sam's" in Tennessee to buy gasoline. I then walked inside to see the various fireworks they sold and I saw these figurines on their shelf!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103365358646315&set=a.10100135611560365.2539593.22420870&type=3&theater
(That's not my picture. I don't even have a FB account. I found the image while doing a Google search, seeking evidence of what I'd seen there.)

[Duppers]

42. The saddest thing is that these people think

nothing of doing this. They are so cloistered, living in their bubble.

Thank you for sharing.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

43. I asked Dad about the incident near the KY-TN border years after it happened...

... and he said that the restaurant employee had a "that's just the way it is" attitude about it, and that's pretty much how the black family acted as well. I can still remember watching them at the outside table and they didn't look upset. I'm assuming they were from that area and "used" to it?!

That sort of thing blows my mind.

[Duppers]

44. Exactly.

That's the way my 91yo mother thinks. Because I've so verbally disagreed with her since my early 20's, she and I have stayed more or less estranged. She's always been a mindless Republican.
So, you can understand why it's almost singularly the beauty of those mountains drawing hubs and myself back to Tennessee.

[malthaussen]

25. Golly gee whiz, isn't that inciting to violence?

I don't think an officer of the Court should be advising people to break the law.

-- Mal

[thesquanderer]

26. It's awful and he deserves the blowback, but I dislike overblown/sensationalist headlines

Saying he "urged" them to do it is an overstatement.

But it's just huffpo.

[Duppers]

32. True that.

HuffPo is known for that kind of clickbait.

[PSPS]

27. Typical HuffPo click bait not worthy of LBN.

[Duppers]

33. It was the first article I found on this.

HuffPo is not first rate journalism, I know and agree. However, I thought his tweet was outrageous. Guess I should have put this in GD, uh.

Sorry for wasting your time!

[Judi Lynn]

28. No one but racist Republicans or trolls would write "run them down" when referring to protesters

who don't want to see "protectors" of the people shooting them down in the streets.

[center]

Why he looks smug is a deep mystery. He should be living well hidden under a rock, or a sheet. [/center]

[Duppers]

34. Amen!!

You made me smile, Judi. Thanks!!

[NeoConsSuck]

36. USA Today suspends columnist Glenn Reynolds for one month

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/09/usa-today-columnist-glenn-reynolds-004780

[Duppers]

38. Only one month!

Just reflective of just how warped and skewed that rag is!

[NeoConsSuck]

40. Agreed. He should have been fired.