'Sooooo THAT’S why you lied': Bloomberg's Ben Penn grabs his shovel and confirms his smear of Leif Olson was a politically motivated hit job

Bloomberg journo Ben Penn is living proof that you can’t shame the shameless. Because if he had any shame, he’d be throwing himself at Leif Olson’s feet and apologizing for smearing Olson and costing him his job.

Instead, he’s doing this:

Lost in all of this is that Olson was part of a team of political appointees tasked with the heavy lift of drafting wage-hour regulations that are high priorities for Trump White House, business community. They're now down one adviser. https://t.co/PZbIScDHqe

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

And you’re super-proud of that, aren’t you, Ben?

Bloomberg's Ben Penn @benjaminpenn is back to tweeting about his story, which falsely mischaracterized obvious mockery of anti-Semitism as anti-Semitic. The reporter's mischaracterizations led to the advisor's job loss. https://t.co/nbb76akVGR

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 3, 2019

Still doesn’t make him an anti-Semite. https://t.co/mDFhhlPqKm

— Emily “Al Fredo” Zanotti (@emzanotti) September 3, 2019

But it does makes Penn an even more horrible person.

Oh

— Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) September 3, 2019

Hahahaha this was such a bad idea

— janitor in a suit (@TheJakeKauffman) September 3, 2019

A terrible idea, in fact.

So you’re really going through with this I guess… https://t.co/VzdwIYxHqN

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 3, 2019

My God, he's still digging. https://t.co/YiUDRNinWt

— JWF (@JammieWF) September 3, 2019

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— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) September 3, 2019

“I did a hit piece on a guy and got him fired and he absolutely didn’t do what I accused him of doing.”

<hours of reflection later>

“Man, can’t believe those guys are short handed now. They were doing important stuff. Bummer.” https://t.co/SmStQNtQ5f

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) September 3, 2019

Couldn’t be helped. It was an act of God.

— Daniel Foster (@DanFosterType) September 3, 2019

The guy who fabricated and orchestrated this whole hit job is just a bystander, y'all. https://t.co/Pz7LVKArai

— Molly Ratty (@molratty) September 3, 2019

Absolutely pathetic.

Any additional info coming on how this story made it past editing?

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 3, 2019

How have you not been fired yet?

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 3, 2019

Bloomberg should be down one journalist.

— K. Slate (@SlateKensington) September 3, 2019

And one editor.

— Al Mata (@Trebla1972) September 3, 2019

No kidding. If it wasn’t clear enough before, Penn has just made it pretty apparent that this was a politically motivated hit job, plain and simple.

Sooooo THAT’S why you lied…… https://t.co/i5MlkDXVsx

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 3, 2019

The Bloomberg reporter who deliberately defamed a Trump official is now openly confessing his motive for peddling lies. https://t.co/ulAj6vMIuk

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 3, 2019

Olson is innocent of anti-semitism, but of the steeper offense of crimes against leftism he stands guilty as charged https://t.co/kTbXKuerbw

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) September 3, 2019

This Olson/Bloomberg thing may end up as a rare case of a news org flatly admitting, “Yeah, we whacked this guy because he’s right-wing”

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) September 3, 2019

Take a bow, Ben Penn. You too, Bloomberg. Well done, all around.

Oh no. It's very clear you had an agenda and somehow you succeeded. But they will hire someone else and these burdensome regulations will go away and all you will have done is made an enemy for life, waiting for just the right moment. https://t.co/8dQfcAOUaE

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) September 3, 2019

Stay tuned, Ben.