Controversial columnist Stu Bykofsky left The Philadelphia Inquirer last week after 47 years in the job, with his colleagues holding a retirement bash last Friday.
Things appeared to be going smoothly at the event, until Bykofsky's nemesis - architecture critic Inga Saffron - was invited to share some parting words, which were recorded and shared with
Philadelphia Magazine.
Saffron quickly accused Bykofsky of neglecting his duties as a journalist by failing to reach out to a bicycle coalition when he wrote a column condemning cyclists in the city.
'That is a lie!' Bykofsky interjected gruffly, as gathered colleagues laughed nervously.
'That is a lie! I spoke to them, and I can tell you who I spoke to! THAT IS A gosh darn LIE!' he continued yelling, as he pointed his finger at Saffron in anger.
'I don't want to stand here and listen to this bulls**t!' he then spluttered.
However, Saffron wasn't done with roasting her rival - calmly continuing with her savage speech.
'So we disagree on just about everything of his three favorite subjects - pistols, prostitutes and puppies, although he we might find common ground on the puppies... ' Saffron mused.
She continued: 'For all that, I did read Stu sometimes, not always, not every crazy column, but some of them -and then he left me outraged. Like the infamous column about his taste for his child prostitutes in Thailand..'
'That is a total f**king lie!' Bykosky interjected in rage.
That is a total f**king lie!' Bykofsky wasn't taking Saffrom's criticism lightly, responding with rage
'That's online, that's still available!' Saffron insisted, referring to
a controversial 2011 piece he wrote about Thai sex workers.
She then accused Bykosky of sexism, describing him as a 'newspaperman, not a journalist'.
"He hails from a time when people who put out newspapers were men, and it is not lost on me that some of the gratuitous attacks were leveled against women. So with his leaving, I hope we are getting a little further away from that unfortunate time.'
