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TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 05:37 AM Aug 2016

Bankrupt Gawker says goodbye with pizzas and cheap beer

Well that’s a very Gawkward goodbye.

At the bankrupt company’s farewell party Gawker’s executive editor compared the sacrifices his staff made defending lawsuits secretly funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel to the sacrifices endured by the family of slain Army Captain Humayun Khan.

“We just had a conversation, a national conversation out of the DNC,” top editor John Cook told a crowd of 200 people gathered at Gawker’s Manhattan headquarters Wednesday night.

“When the father of a soldier who was killed in battle said, ‘Donald Trump, what have you sacrificed,'” Cook continued, referencing the now-famous speech by Kizer Khan.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/08/11/bankrupt-gawker-says-goodbye-with-pizzas-and-cheap-beer/

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Bankrupt Gawker says goodbye with pizzas and cheap beer (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
What was their "cause" again? BeyondGeography Aug 2016 #1

BeyondGeography

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1. What was their "cause" again?
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 05:41 AM
Aug 2016
Both Denton and Daulerio came under fire from Hogan jurors, who told The Post that they wanted to “send a message” with the massive $140 million verdict because they viewed the duo as “arrogant” hypocrites.

At trial Denton admitted he’d be “mortified” if a sex tape involving him became public while Daulerio callously joked about drawing the line at publishing sex tapes involving children.
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