'OK, this is absolutely nuts'! White-hot WaPo take: Elizabeth Warren is just like Frederick Douglass because she poses for selfies

Remember how Elizabeth Warren tried to fundraise off of her claim that reporters had asked her to stop posing for selfies with fans? Remember how we (and others) called BS?

Well, looks like we indeed made the right call. Check out this white-hot take in the Washington Post:

Frederick Douglass sat for photographs that smashed stereotypes of black men. Could Elizabeth Warren, who has posed for nearly 60,000 selfies with supporters, accomplish the same for female presidential candidates?

Love this @hannah_natanson read:https://t.co/eP2B9htiPN

— Rachel Leah Siegel (@rachsieg) September 18, 2019

Sorry … what?

Well, this article got pitched and then written. https://t.co/K6s4rOQxiT pic.twitter.com/9J92pjnlj8

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) September 20, 2019

Here’s just a taste of the word salad:

He was up against more than myth. Born into slavery, Douglass taught himself to read and write (both forbidden activities), escaped enslavement at age 20 and forged a career as the most accomplished orator of America’s abolition movement — and possibly in the entire country. He lived to see slavery abolished at the end of the Civil War but continued to fight against the country’s racist and inhumane treatment of African Americans all his life.

Although in a vastly different context, Warren is today confronting another harmful myth, experts said: that a woman is not presidential and does not belong in the Oval Office. Over the course of her campaign, she’s developed a similar strategy to fight back. At the end of every rally, Warren — one of three front-runners in the Democratic race, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll — stays behind to pose for pictures with pretty much every supporter who asks.

Remember, the idea there is a bias in our media is a pernicious falsehood.

Also, Elizabeth Warren = Frederick Douglass because they are both in photographs. Here's a quote where a professor pats the reporter on the head for dreaming up this premise.https://t.co/K6s4rOQxiT pic.twitter.com/PTZC3noNUD

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) September 20, 2019

Seriously. This is so, so bad.

https://t.co/ZGUuQdypUm

Ok, this is absolutely nuts. If you don’t think the media is in the tank for Warren now, you’re blind. They really just compared Warren taking selfies with folks to flex on Instagram to one of the most important figures in US history, a former slave

— Southern Black Berner (@so_black_berner) September 18, 2019

nominating this for worst of 2019 in the categories of "most unnecessary comparison" and "bizarrest piece of propaganda"https://t.co/4cMOkFdcHi

— Aaron Cooper-Lob (@pale_yid) September 19, 2019