Can’t we all just get along? No, astronaut learns
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Astronaut Scott Kelly's heart was likely in the right place when he tried to get America to take thing down a notch in political discourse.
Kelly has a perspective that few others have on the subject. His sister-in-law, Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head just a week into her third term in Congress at the same venue in Tucson in which a federal judge was killed.
But there's no such thing as the benefit of the doubt in a hair-trigger world where people are waiting to pounce.
Quote Churchill? Unforgivable.
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Kelly's Twitter followers, armed with Google and an internet connection, pounced, the BBC reports
So Kelly apologized.
Apologize for quoting Churchill? Unforgivable!
Again, Kelly's other Twitter followers pounced:
"In just two tweets, Kelly wrote another social media rule - never quote Winston Churchill," the BBC said.
