Two big news stories made the Internet rounds yesterday, and what many people don’t realize is that those two stories are linked by one man who found himself on both sides of the same issue.
Late yesterday, we learned that President Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz — who purportedly has a recent history of alcohol problems, according to ProPublica — sent a series of angry emails to a “concerned citizen” who had emailed Kasowitz and asked him to resign.
“I’m on you now. You are f*cking with me now Let’s see who you are Watch your back, bitch,” Kasowitz emailed to the citizen. “Call me. Don’t be afraid, you piece of sh*t. Stand up. If you don’t call, you’re just afraid.”
Late yesterday, Kasowitz — who was tied up with client matters — said through a spokesman that he would apologize for inappropriate, obscenity-laced emails.
Meanwhile, another big story that circulated yesterday was about Frank Darabont’s obscenity-laced emails to AMC, which were released as part of the original showrunner’s lawsuit against the network over The Walking Dead. Here is one of many nasty emails Darabont sent to network executives back in 2010-2011 while he was working on The Walking Dead:
“F*ck you all for giving me chest pains because of the staggering f*cking incompetence, blindness to the important beats, and the beyond-arrogant lack of regard for what is written being exhibited on set every day. I deserve better than a heart attack because people are too stupid to read a script and understand the words. Does anybody disagree with me? Then join the C-cam operator and go find another job that doesn’t involve deliberately f*cking up my show scene by scene.”
Here is another, which contained a death threat: “If it were up to me, I’d have not only fired [them], I’d have hunted down and f**king killed them with a brick, then gone and burned their homes,” Darabont wrote of two writers on The Walking Dead.
Unlike Kasowitz, Darabont did not apologize for his emails. In fact, he stood behind them, saying that they were the product of a stressful work environment created by AMC.
Now, here’s where the two stories merge in a hilariously ironic fashion. Yesterday, AMC’s lawyer filed court documents deriding Frank Darabont for the angry, profane emails. You want to take one guess as to who AMC’s lawyer is?
That’s right: Marc Kasowitz.
In yet another nutty twist of 2017, the attorney for the President of the United States was called out for obscene emails on the very same day that he called out the former showrunner of The Walking Dead for… obscene emails.
You just can’t make this stuff up, folks.
(Via THR)
