Washington Post deletes embarrassing error in its reporting on the death of Robert Dole [screenshot]

The Washington Post has deleted a tweet that reported the death of former Sen. Robert Dole at the age of “XX”:

Great work there guys. https://t.co/cU2l4HcGw3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 5, 2021

Screenshot:

pic.twitter.com/eAuSHowYtN

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 5, 2021

Helluva way to spend that Jeff Bezos cash:

All of that Bezos money and you clowns still can't do anything right

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) December 5, 2021

Remember terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or, as the WaPo reported in his obit, an “austere religious scholar”?

what is it with WaPo and obituaries https://t.co/lxxBUNwfL2

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) December 5, 2021

We *get* that obits are prewritten, but this error was particularly bad:

Everybody knows they pre-write these things, but still jarring to see it made this obvious. https://t.co/R20xgIS3of

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 5, 2021

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