At guestofaguest we try our best to accentuate the positive. Snark is too easy (or at least doesn’t come easily to us) and quite frankly, is best done by others. But once in a while its necessary to cross over to the darkside and call people out for trying to have it both ways, or shall we say having no shame? More specifically I’m referring to Maureen O’Connor, editor of Ivygate, and worker for nonsociety.com (Julia Allison’s new site).
“What happens on the internet stays on the internet.Which is why Tyler and Cameron desperately need the good press. It’s either American medalist winners/superstar athletes/hunky twins, or the spoiled bitches that tried to lay one on the invincible Mark Zuckerberg and failed.”
On July 30th, two days after the ivygate post, Maureen sent me this email:
We’re [Me and Julia Allison] currently looking for Olympians who might be interested in helping us cover the Olympics. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were, of course, my first two thoughts. I understand you know them? Could you help me get in touch with them? We’re interested in getting a “peek behind the curtain” of the US Olympic Team and the goings-on in Beijing.
When I discovered the two-faced nature of Miss O’Connor a.k.a. Citizen Shame, I sent her back this response:
I find it quite puzzling that you have asked me to ask the Winklevosses to guest blog as Olympians for Julia Allison and yourself…How do you even have the nerve to ask them to blog for you? What planet are you from?
Her response was a litany of excuses.Unfortunately for Maureen, the only valid excuse for her actions would have been that she had no knowledge of the post before she sent me her request, but alas that was not one of them.
Of all her excuses, this one takes the cake:
“I am, however, sorry I didn’t anticipate that my role in two organizations would offend you.”
wait, i don’t get it — maureen didn’t write the post on ivygate, someone named juli min did.
nyc chilla August 6, 2008 9:03pm
She is the Chief Editor of Ivygate, whether she wrote it or not she is the head of an organization that did. If you edited a blog that wrote something like that, and then turned around and the asked the same people who you snarked to do you a favor it is pretty pathetic.
New Yorkah August 6, 2008 9:09pm
Both Maureen O’Connor and Juli Min should be sent down to Guatanamo Bay. Total snark wannabe whores.
I’m sure it was JA who put Maureen up to such a deed. That being said, both are equally spineless, which is why of course they are in bed together over at nonsociety.
As for that dumb bitch Juli Min, I would suggest you run for the mountains. You’re time in New York is up. You were a loser in highschool who tried to reinvent yourself in college as some kind of artsy indie asian chick, but alas no one cares about you and you’re still a loser with a capital L.
Anonymous August 7, 2008 11:29am
“Me and Julia” - classy. Of course, Julia Baugher is about as classy as Britney Spears.
Anonymous August 8, 2008 2:56pm
If any of you read IvyGate regularly, you’d know this is par for the course in terms of love-hate snarkyness. She DID call them “superstar athletes” and “hunky twins” just before the “spoiled bitches” comment. Everyone who writes for and reads IvyGate goes/went to, presumably, an Ivy, so these comments are made in self-loathing good fun. Get over it, Jesus.
Rebecca S. August 8, 2008 7:45pm
oh my goodness! Maureen is a waffler!
She probably wasn’t even on that damn Ivy swiftboat. Bitch…
James August 12, 2008 1:15am
IvyGate is occasionally overly snarky, but it’s not their fault that this is the way the “it” blogs (Gawker etc.) write these days. I would prefer snark to the article and comments here, which are simply mean-spirited (much moreso than anything you would find at IvyGate). I mean, to call someone, a real person that you do not know, a “dumb bitch” and invent an entire outrageous and quasi-racist backstory? Childish.
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At guestofaguest we try our best to accentuate the positive. Snark is too easy (or at least doesn’t come easily to us) and quite frankly, is best done by others. But once in a while its necessary to cross over to the darkside and call people out for trying to have it both ways, or shall we say having no shame? More specifically I’m referring to Maureen O’Connor, editor of Ivygate, and worker for nonsociety.com (Julia Allison’s new site).
wait, i don’t get it — maureen didn’t write the post on ivygate, someone named juli min did.
August 6, 2008 9:03pm
She is the Chief Editor of Ivygate, whether she wrote it or not she is the head of an organization that did. If you edited a blog that wrote something like that, and then turned around and the asked the same people who you snarked to do you a favor it is pretty pathetic.
August 6, 2008 9:09pm
Both Maureen O’Connor and Juli Min should be sent down to Guatanamo Bay. Total snark wannabe whores.
August 6, 2008 9:34pm
If you guys want a good laugh, check out http://www.julimin.com. What a joke!
August 6, 2008 9:42pm
I’m sure it was JA who put Maureen up to such a deed. That being said, both are equally spineless, which is why of course they are in bed together over at nonsociety.
As for that dumb bitch Juli Min, I would suggest you run for the mountains. You’re time in New York is up. You were a loser in highschool who tried to reinvent yourself in college as some kind of artsy indie asian chick, but alas no one cares about you and you’re still a loser with a capital L.
August 7, 2008 11:29am
“Me and Julia” - classy. Of course, Julia Baugher is about as classy as Britney Spears.
August 8, 2008 2:56pm
If any of you read IvyGate regularly, you’d know this is par for the course in terms of love-hate snarkyness. She DID call them “superstar athletes” and “hunky twins” just before the “spoiled bitches” comment. Everyone who writes for and reads IvyGate goes/went to, presumably, an Ivy, so these comments are made in self-loathing good fun. Get over it, Jesus.
August 8, 2008 7:45pm
oh my goodness! Maureen is a waffler!
She probably wasn’t even on that damn Ivy swiftboat. Bitch…
August 12, 2008 1:15am
IvyGate is occasionally overly snarky, but it’s not their fault that this is the way the “it” blogs (Gawker etc.) write these days. I would prefer snark to the article and comments here, which are simply mean-spirited (much moreso than anything you would find at IvyGate). I mean, to call someone, a real person that you do not know, a “dumb bitch” and invent an entire outrageous and quasi-racist backstory? Childish.