Congressman Jeff Fortenberry's Chief Of Staff Threatens Professor For Liking Facebook Post University of Nebraska Professor Ari Kohen liked this Facebook post. Fortenberry's office came after him. Less than 130 people pressed “like” on a Facebook photo of a defaced campaign sign depicting Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) with googly eyes alongside a schoolyard reimagining of his name: Jeff Fartenberry. The post wasn’t threatening, nor was the sign itself worth much more than a polite guffaw. But if “Fartenberry” was juvenile, then Fortenberry’s response to the post was downright fetal. The sign was enough of a problem for the congressman’s office that his chief of staff personally reached out to and then threatened one person who pressed “like” on the Facebook post depicting it. That person is Ari Kohen, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As the Lincoln Journal Star reports, a Fortenberry campaign staffer took a screenshot of Kohen’s dastardly Facebook like last Thursday, then notified the congressman’s D.C. campaign office (and also, apparently, Kohen’s employers). The next day, Kohen received a call from Fortenberry’s chief of staff. In a recording of the call later posted to YouTube, Dr. William “Reyn” Archer III can be heard scolding Kohen for liking the post. “What you’re liking is vandalism,” Archer says. “No, I’m not,” Kohen responds. “Your argument is that anything I like on Facebook represents an endorsement by me of the thing ― not the post, but the thing ― that is happening in the world?” “Correct,” Archer says. Kohen sounds perplexed. He asks why a sitting congressman is focusing his ire on a Facebook photo and why his office felt it necessary to report the act to Kohen’s “immediate supervisor, dean and chancellor of the university.” (The university confirmed to HuffPost that Archer reached out to all three via email.) Archer goes on to threaten that he might make the whole thing public: “We have a First Amendment opportunity to put you out there in front of everybody,” he says. “We can do that publicly. Would you like that? That’s our First Amendment right.”