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Have you seen the story about Cindy McCain and Tiffany Nicole? If not, you can read it here. I’ll also give you a brief summary:
McCain received a nasty, hate-filled direct message on Twitter from a user named Tiffany Nicole. The young woman said she was glad McCain’s husband was dead, then oh-so-maturely commented on Megan McCain’s weight, saying she hoped the former US Senator’s daughter died, too.
Cindy McCain took a screen shot of Tiffany Nicole’s message and tweeted it out.
McCain said she shared the note because “I want to make sure all of you could see how kind and loving a stranger can be,” according to this story from Today.
Some criticized McCain for letting the sender’s name remain visible. A few argued it wasn’t fair to the other Tiffany Nicoles out there who inevitably got (wrongly) blamed for the venom. Others dared to feel sorry (!?!?!?) for the sender, saying she was just being a ‘tough guy’ on the Internet and didn’t deserve the response to inevitably received. (Tiffany Nicole the nasty message sender has since locked down and/or deleted her various social media accounts.)
While I’m not a fan of drawing attention to people who act like asses by name (ex: celebrities reading ‘mean tweets’ just gives the writers what they want — attention), in this case I support McCain. Tiffany Nicole was vile. Saying you’re glad a man who caused you no harm is dead is … not just unkind, it’s evil.
The only way to get a bully to stop being a bully is to stand up to him or her. By ‘outing’ Ms. Nicole, McCain stood up to the ‘tough guy’ who, I imagine, may now regret hitting ‘send.’
