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Meh is a genius in handling those people, you do have to admit that.

I don't know that I would go that far. He was very abrasive, whereas his core message could've been plenty to stop the nonsense he always added a little bit of aggression to keep the drama going.

If he was a genius, you probably wouldn't ever have known the issue existed. At least it seems that way to me.

But the people who started the attacks researched his profiles and publicized the entire thing. Their entire goal was public ridicule and getting him denounced.

If this group of thugs is good at anything, it's getting the word out and the twitter mobs mobilized.

Bingo.

And this is what makes the way he handled it -genius- :-)

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