After news of “Fast and Furious” actor Paul Walker’s death in a fiery one-car crash hit the Internet Saturday night , Erin Gloria Ryan, editor of the left-wing website Jezebel (which is part of the Gawker network), tweeted that she wished it had been Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker instead.

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Ryan’s first reaction to the controversy was to mock conservatives as unable to take a joke.

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Later Ryan repeatedly apologized, including to Walker directly, and deleted what she admitted was “an incredibly tasteless joke.”

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.@GovWalker Doubt you read these @’s, but I’m sorry for using you as fodder for an incredibly tasteless joke that went viral. — Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) December 2, 2013

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