Quite a few on Twitter were shocked last night to learn that the resignation of low-level GOP staffer Elizabeth Lauten, who stirred up controversy with a Facebook post criticizing the first daughters’ outfits, managed to score coverage on the big three nightly newscasts. That’s news?
Lefty media expressed glee when The Smoking Gun uncovered that Lauten had been busted for shoplifting at 17, news that made sites such as Ebony, Gawker, and Talking Points Memo. But it turns out that the media were willing to go further than that to dig up dirt on Lauten, according to The Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman.
Are you *kidding*? Seen this, @AceofSpadesHQ http://t.co/rZs9h5wX0Z via @alanagoodman pic.twitter.com/xlirE7JHcH
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) December 2, 2014
Just in case that picture is difficult to read, here’s the highlighted bit from The Free Beacon:
Two network news vans camped outside of Lauten’s parents home in North Carolina on Tuesday, one day after she resigned as communication director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R., Tenn.) due to the controversy. Lauten was not at the house.
That morning, the Washington Post also assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007.
.@davereaboi @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman This is what happens when there is no distinction between your media and your White House.
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) December 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversToo/status/539925964084346882
.@davereaboi @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman @CalebHowe WaPo has been chasing the dragon ever since it got that pure hit of Macaca in '06.
— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) December 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/ErsteKrieger/status/539926744778559488
@davereaboi @FreeBeacon @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman There's a Pulitzer in there somewhere.
— Citizen Maclunkow (@CtzCow) December 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/iMAGiNeprints1/status/539927306823680000
@davereaboi Hacks gonna hack. @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman
— This 50 char name is great and so is Toto's Africa (@AspiringThrawn) December 2, 2014
@davereaboi @Cameron_Gray @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman Media priorities are wacked. What a complete total joke. Sad day in America.
— United We Stand (@terriertot) December 2, 2014
@davereaboi @AceofSpadesHQ @alanagoodman got more info on her than they did on IRS and fast and furious. #notnewsworthy
— Kimberly Stanley (@NokimboStanley) December 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/CitizenEgg/status/539931407213010947
https://twitter.com/sswenviro/status/539934707647926272
@davereaboi @Popehat @AceofSpadesHQ their godhead got his ass handed to him and now it's total war on all non-believers
— Eric Cantrell (@E_R_Cantrell) December 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/539926034658103296
Either that or …
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/539925543685074944
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