Left POUNCES on Mike Huckabee over weird double-photo tweet saluting Capital Gazette journalists

Greg P. | 4:44 PM on June 29, 2018

We assume this was done in error, because, WTH? Why are there two photos of Mike Huckabee in this message on the slain journalists in Maryland?

A big salute to the staff of the Gazette, who despite being traumatized and losing staffers to death and injury, vowed that the next day’s edition would come out, and they worked at home and got it out.https://t.co/KTvxSuVFVL pic.twitter.com/dVJ7cpH9S9

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 29, 2018

More from the link above, which is a rather nice statement:

Meanwhile, a big salute to the staff of the Gazette, who despite being traumatized and losing staffers to death and injury, vowed that the next day’s edition would come out, and they worked at home and got it out. In a time when journalism has been driven into low regard among the public by some of its more visible practitioners’ bias, egomania and lax regard for fact-checking, the Gazette staff just reminded the world what real journalistic professionalism and courage under fire look like.

But here come the memes:

pic.twitter.com/7OnTBZ4uwt

— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) June 29, 2018

It’s like the Matrix or something:

https://twitter.com/aidachavez/status/1012760533458567169

And the left pounces on it!

is this weird twitter https://t.co/zKeOYriRH8

— Jen Statsky (@jenstatsky) June 29, 2018

What is wrong with you https://t.co/tbR5Go7lT6

— Adam Scott (@mradamscott) June 29, 2018

Is this like one of those “spot the difference” pics? https://t.co/WqSvNTnKCN

— Ariel Dumas (@ArielDumas) June 29, 2018

It’s not just me, right? Huckabee “saluting” and posting two pictures of himself is really weird, isn’t it? https://t.co/Ld3dGLpGdS

— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) June 29, 2018