Time’s Michael Grunwald deletes tweet about droning Julian Assange

http://twitter.com/#!/mosharrafzaidi/status/368880653732818944

Time correspondent Michael Grunwald quickly decided better of his tweet suggesting he was looking forward to writing about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being taken out by a drone strike.

http://twitter.com/#!/DankBuds420/status/368880845039226883
http://twitter.com/#!/anonymisterz/status/368888518707142656

Tough crowd. Grunwald decided to delete the tweet, but not without further antagonizing Assange’s supporters and others.

http://twitter.com/#!/crockettoo_/status/368888295880527872
http://twitter.com/#!/shelley_ozzy/status/368888504207425536
http://twitter.com/#!/JonathanDBrown/status/368888322422079488
http://twitter.com/#!/theGuruWithin/status/368888313064595457
http://twitter.com/#!/Alrahambra/status/368888209033277441
http://twitter.com/#!/kadybat/status/368892231165292544
http://twitter.com/#!/johncusack/status/368912365124730880

Grunwald linked to a piece he published earlier this year arguing that the government is obligated to limit individual freedoms to protect lives, but the “don’t tread on me crowd” wasn’t impressed.

http://twitter.com/#!/conor64/status/368883238673977344
http://twitter.com/#!/conor64/status/368885876446621698

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Update:

After withstanding the closest thing Twitter has to an unmanned drone strike, Grunwald apologized.

http://twitter.com/#!/MikeGrunwald/status/368896088494706688
http://twitter.com/#!/blakehounshell/status/368887671340281856

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.