Stone was inundated with outraged emails, Facebook messages and phone calls, some of which included death threats – and so was her company.
"Mr. Varney's expose managed to provoke a grand total of four outraged emails from around the state," Galbraith wrote.
In 2008, when Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern said that "the homosexual agenda is just destroying this nation... it's the biggest threat that our nation has... .., she received thousands of outraged emails, many of which she claimed contained death threats.
This was a foolish, dangerous thing to say since the paper I was writing for received a deluge of outraged emails and letters from Futurama fans berating my ignorance and extolling the show's superiority to The Simpsons and indeed every other TV series in every way.
When she got home, an outraged Barbara emailed her local newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator, saying, "It's the name of an explosive device that kills people, and they're using it frivolously to sell chicken and bacon.
People are outraged -- outraged!
"re: 'I can't work out if he looks like a fantastic prospect or if much of his running about leads to nothing.'" emails an outraged Igor Calija.
This year has been better than most, I suppose, but I still get the odd letter or email from an outraged reader who - on the evidence of, say, a £3.99 red at Somerfield turning out to boast a £4.99 price ticket (like Mr Lowry of Sheffield) or a Tesco Californian Viognier not costing £3.99, but the staff insisting it is £4.99 (like Mr Hoskins of Banstead) - wonders if I know my coccyx from my ulna.
Maria Scruggs, president of the St . Petersburgchapter of the NAACP, said at a Tuesday press conference that her organization has received a wave of calls from outraged residents since Hoffman's initial email was forwarded to her.
"However, if we spend our energy getting outraged every time somebody sends a sexist email we'd all be exhausted.
