'Shameful': New Republic gets a bipartisan hammering for 'repulsive' tweet about Joni Ernst and her Senate career

We’ve seen some awful takes this year, but this take from The New Republic has to be right up there with the worst:

https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1306631676714516482

Suffice to say that tweet is getting a bipartisan hammering:

This is disgusting.

— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) September 17, 2020

Just here to watch you get ratioed

— TKJ (@jonesyouknow) September 17, 2020

Who wrote this garbage

— Morehouse (@art_morehouse) September 17, 2020

What a disgusting, vile, sexist headline. Way to victim shame. https://t.co/J7wtuxpTY9

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) September 17, 2020

Even by the new @newrepublic standards, this is just ghastly. https://t.co/vedMc8cpl4

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 17, 2020

Who on earth would think this tweet is OK? https://t.co/5Xr4g0F61i

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) September 17, 2020

I think everyone should be able to agree that this is an absolutely outrageous tweet. https://t.co/WsWzU8f0Ta

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 17, 2020

It seems that yes, everybody does agree.

Trust me, there is a way to write a critical piece about Joni Enst without doing this. Ugh. https://t.co/GB9r0NF1Y1

— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) September 17, 2020

Yeah, let's not do this. https://t.co/aXpq5R88yI

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 17, 2020

I’m as liberal as they come and I agree with every criticism being posted above. Just a terrible piece here.

— HeyMan800 (@HeyMan800) September 17, 2020

You people are ghouls. https://t.co/SE1f2ZuqhE

— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) September 17, 2020

Shameful. https://t.co/lIvFbt61aK

— Olivia PC (@olivia_pc) September 17, 2020

This is poisonous garbage. If this were put out by National Review or Washington Examiner against a female Democrat, @JakeTapper, @BrianStelter, @OliverDarcy, @BriKeilarCNN, @DanaBashCNN, @JohnKingCNN, @JoyAnnReid, @MorningMika, and all the rest would be having multiple segments. https://t.co/QHIRqwcZSu

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2020

It's been hours and this abomination still hasn't been deleted and an apology/firing issued?

— Mike Stankiewicz (@MikeStankiewic_) September 17, 2020

Things one absolutely should not do in a tweet: draw a comparison between an actual abusive situation the subject of your piece survived and … pretty much anything else. https://t.co/HILCj0PJHd

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) September 17, 2020

I know I'm not adding anything by making this statement, but just to join the chorus:

This is deeply inappropriate. https://t.co/bedTQvxyN2

— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) September 17, 2020

This is absolutely repulsive. The tweet & article. https://t.co/S9631Siliv

— Lauren Luxenburg (@LaurenC_Lux) September 17, 2020

it isnt too late. just press delete

— jesse (@N3on_Online) September 17, 2020

This is shameful. https://t.co/fRvAQBrBwL

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) September 17, 2020

This is disgusting. Have some decency and delete this trash. https://t.co/5wXy65jMen

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) September 17, 2020

As of now it’s been up a few hours and hasn’t been deleted.