Sportswriter Peter Gammons, in a tweet that included spelling Betsy DeVos’ name incorrectly, called the Secretary of Education stupid and suggested she was only fit to clean houses:
After DeVoss interview on 60 Minutes, she should be fired tomorrow and forced to get a job doing something w/in her intellectual skill set like cleaning houses
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) March 11, 2018
Yeah, that’s problematic to both libs and conservatives:
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/973040932504383488
https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/973035348174422017
Wow what a sexist and classist tweet. People who clean houses don’t have the intellectual heft you require Peter? https://t.co/GNcTSrGaPp
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) March 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/973036915367796738
Um, Peter, I'm no fan of DeVos but WTF man? "Cleaning houses" is the only thing with which you could come up? Could you sound more sexist? https://t.co/bFi88NJsQd
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 12, 2018
My grandmother cleaned houses and I assure you she was more intelligent than most of Congress and the Cabinet. You should re-think this tweet. https://t.co/AtK6JBRwCL
— Richelle Carey (@RichelleCarey) March 12, 2018
If you are going to tell a woman to get out of the executive suite and go clean houses, maybe put in the effort to spell her name correctly. https://t.co/rUxrUxTFty
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) March 12, 2018
We expect we’ll be hearing more on this today, including a walk back from Gammons:
https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/973052123117248512
Hoping @pgammo apologizes for this. People that make an honest living cleaning houses are working hard, paying taxes & contributing to our economy. Many are women or immigrants or people of color that don’t deserve to be marginalized or insulted like this. https://t.co/eCJuq5eKWC
— Lisa Guerrero ?? (@4lisaguerrero) March 12, 2018
Screenshot for posterity:
In Peter's defense here, "maids are stupid" is about what I'd expect from a UNC Chapel Hill grad tbh
Gonna be a winning strategy for Dems in 2020 I reckon…https://t.co/uiTdoQX2Ob pic.twitter.com/vR1hDG9UQm
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) March 12, 2018
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