As Twitchy told you yesterday, Politico’s Michael Calderone reported that smear merchant Robin Pogrebin was behind this now-deleted tweet about Brett Kavanaugh from the New York Times:
The New York Times, ladies and gentlemen: pic.twitter.com/uAQNVpQVOI
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) September 16, 2019
Earlier today, CNN’s Alison Camerota asked Pogrebin about the tweet, and Pogrebin debuted an impressive tap-dancing routine to avoid explicitly taking responsibility:
.@rpogrebin asked on @NewDay to respond to reporting by @mlcalderone that she authored the controversial NYT Kavanaugh tweet. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/vEx54AaGV0
— Quint Forgey (@QuintForgey) September 17, 2019
Alisyn Camerota: "@politico is reporting that a Times insider says that it was you, Robin. So I just wanted to get your response to that."
Pogrebin: "All I can say is the tweet was written and the tweet was sent out, and it shouldn't have, it shouldn't have happened." (2/3)
— Quint Forgey (@QuintForgey) September 17, 2019
Camerota: "But do you want to respond to Times insiders who say it was you?"
Pogrebin: "You know, I just feel like it's a distraction, on all this thing, to try and to go back over that." (3/3)
— Quint Forgey (@QuintForgey) September 17, 2019
Watch:
NYT’s @rpogrebin refuses to say if she wrote the bizarre tweet the paper deleted and apologized for:
"I just feel it’s a distraction to try and go back over that." pic.twitter.com/0qGAg8KL3L
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 17, 2019
Amazing. But the truth was bound to catch up with her, and later on “The View,” Pogrebin copped to having written the tweet:
New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin just admitted on "The View" that she wrote this tweet: https://t.co/hR18jOTyhb
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) September 17, 2019
But she still tried to shift the blame onto the people who got upset about the tweet. More from Mediaite:
As it turns out, author Robin Pogrebin revealed that she wrote the bad tweet, and the reaction was the opposite which was intended.
[Pogrebin] explained that “It was a misworded tweet, but what happens at the Times is the reporters are asked to draft Tweets and we’re also asked to draft headlines. They don’t always get used, sent out, they often don’t.”
She then owned up to authoring the tweet saying, “I drafted this with this in mind to have actually the opposite effect, which is to anticipate those who would say, ‘A guy pulling down his pants at a party when they’re drunk is on the spectrum of sexual misconduct. It’s not sexual assault. It’s not rape. What’s the big deal?’”
Later she explained the empathy driving the deleted tweet saying “Having that happen and to have people laugh at her and target her was actually hugely meaningful and made an impact on her life for the rest of her life. So for those who minimize it and dismiss it, I was trying to help them understand that. It had the opposite effect and seemed to undermine her.”
Oh, please. She wasn’t trying to help anyone but herself and Kate Kelly sell their garbage new book.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
— Five Star Surgeon General – US Space Force (@JayMack3301) September 17, 2019
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