It’s not every day you come across a tweet that includes an exchange between BuzzFeed’s Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith, and an aide to a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Add to it the content in the DM (text) reads like it may have been written by a high-schooler rather than an actual campaign aide because they’re tattling on a reporter.
From BuzzFeed:
Here’s a little glimpse at some of the nonsense that shoots back and forth between campaigns and reporters — and perhaps a bit of the stress of Kamala Harris’s campaign trying to break through with a Twitter stunt — in a text from a Harris aide to me complaining about a BuzzFeed staffer’s tweet:
Behold this amazing exchange between @BuzzFeedBen and a Kamala Harris aide https://t.co/isRdKeMnBL pic.twitter.com/0Jr6EDaykm
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 17, 2019
(I put the wrong link in this tweet – here's the link to today's newsletter with this & more: https://t.co/12VB7z3ssw)
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 17, 2019
It’s no wonder Kamala’s campaign isn’t doing better.
Yikes.
And what the Hell is ‘whiteness manifest’?
"This tweet is problematic."
Buckle up, kiddo. The real world is about to take a bat to your ribs.
— Sierra Marlee (@Sierra_Marlee) October 17, 2019
Kids these days.
this is what happens when a campaign employs all the losers from hillary's losing campaign
— Put: unionize now!?⚙️? (@libertyuprising) October 17, 2019
Ouch.
But fair point.
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Kamala did indeed bring on people from Hillary’s failed campaign.
Was this a text from a 16 year old? I think the problem is that children run political campaigns.
— MirriamSeddiq (@mirriam71) October 17, 2019
That’s true.
Children indeed run these campaigns, but the bigger problem still is that children also run the government and most of the media that covers it.
— @PresidentShemp (@presidentshemp) October 17, 2019
Fair enough.
Especially after what we all witnessed in the Oval Office yesterday.
Heh.
With a staff like this, it probably explains why her campaign has been so abysmal
— MB ? (@mill0x0) October 17, 2019
It says a lot and ain’t none of it good.
It’s been clear for awhile that Kamala’s campaign isn’t the best people, not even close.
— Will Nye (@willfnye) October 17, 2019
The reporter in question tweeted about the newsletter.
In @BuzzFeedBen’s newsletter today, there’s some commentary on one of my deleted tweets (from someone who hadn’t DM’d me before yesterday) https://t.co/j3Ba0gQxV8
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 17, 2019
And she added in a little mockery of Kamala as well.
Anyway, still think that Warren "no" was pretty funny https://t.co/PZIIhyWIkE
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 17, 2019
We don’t disagree, we always laugh at both Warren and Harris.
But probably for different reasons.
Bernie don't hire this person in March.
— Brett Banditelli (@banditelli) October 17, 2019
HA HA HA HA HA
This is getting so GOOD.
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