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On May 4, 2013, commenting on reports that Sarah Palin had been seen with chewing tobacco, Savage tweeted, "Now seeing upside of oral cancers." Jim Treacher of The Daily Caller accused Savage of hypocrisy, writing that Savage says "hateful things about people he hates, while pretending to be some sort of anti-bullying guru." Savage responded to criticism in a blog post: "Here's the standard definition of bullying: 'Bullying has to satisfy three criteria: it has to be verbal or physical aggression, repeated over time, involving a power differential.' I may have said something nasty about Sarah Palin—a lovely Christian lady who has never in her life said a single nasty thing about anybody—but I didn't bully her. I can't bully her."