Way to excuse a nasty sexist man. https://t.co/AOcx05OET3
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) March 3, 2017
As Twitchy told you, earlier this week, Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond landed himself in hot water after making what was pretty clearly a vulgar joke about Kellyanne Conway looking “familiar” on her knees. Richmond was rightly raked over the coals for that.
The Washington Post’s so-called “Reliable Source” Emily Heil covered the incident, too, but her spin on it was a little … different:
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/837740223735951360
The actual post was pretty generous, too:
Not much reaction from the crowd, since the bit was convoluted, leaving some people confused. But it seemed to some in the audience that he was making a reference to a sexual act.
Seemed to some? Um, his intent was obvious to just about everyone. Except, apparently, to the Post:
On Thursday, Richmond insisted that there was no such intention behind his remarks. “Since some people have interpreted my joke to mean something that it didn’t I think it is important to clarify what I meant, ” he said in a statement. “Where I grew up saying that someone is looking or acting ‘familiar’ simply means that they are behaving too comfortably.”
…
“I decided to use that joke due to the large social media backlash over her inappropriate posture considering there were more than 60 HBCU Presidents in the room,” Richmond said in the statement.
And that’s all she wrote. Literally. There’s nothing in the article even suggesting that Richmond’s excuse was B.S.
nice to see @washingtonpost trying to explain away misogyny
— commonsense (@commonsense258) March 3, 2017
was this just locker room talk?
— Kyle (@kdro87) March 3, 2017
From the people who knew EXACTLY what "blood coming out of her wherever" meant… @SethAMandel
— Southern Baptist Renegade (@FrohockRyan) March 3, 2017
Yeah, jokes about oral sex are far too often inaccurately categorized as sexual.
— AJ Powers (@aj_powers) March 3, 2017
"awkward" — not "sexist," "misogynistic," "inappropriate," "foul," "demeaning" etc etc
— Adam Shaw (@AdamShawNY) March 3, 2017
Readers aren’t being very generous in their assessment of the Washington Post’s journalistic standards.
@washingtonpost It's almost like you can tell the teams without looking at the uniforms.
— Jonathan Miles (@Jmiles1749) March 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/sayheybrian/status/837749610584092673
@benshapiro imagine if Trump had made the exact same comment.
— Alex Raposa (@pikapp402) March 3, 2017
Chances they give a Republican politician that kind of leeway for such a crass comment?
— Joey Jo-Jo (@joey_jj_jr) March 3, 2017
@JonahNRO @washingtonpost I'm sure if a Repub congressman said that the headline would be the same right ??? Uh hello ????
— KJE (@kevcol12) March 3, 2017
Allowance given to Democrats is amazing to see. Imagine the headline if D and R were reversed. WaPo strips its own cred daily.
— ap (@Olygirlforever) March 3, 2017
Yep. The take-home lesson here is infuriating, but simple:
Conservative women don't count as real women.
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) March 3, 2017
Pretty much.
https://twitter.com/MediaWatchUS1/status/837750275960090624
@benshapiro the bias is real
— Chris Hernandez (@CNHWILL_) March 3, 2017
The hypocrisy… its actually amazing to see.
— James Stewart (@WBYeatsCalledIt) March 3, 2017
I do appreciate that there's no longer any attempt to hide the hypocrisy. Makes this so much easier.
— Jeff Godwin (@JeffGodwin) March 3, 2017
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