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.
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Even this hard-Left DSA member’s jaw is on the floor:
Hoooooooooly shit what the FUCK pic.twitter.com/hCYyYuVxJw
— Naomi LaChance (@lachancenaomi) September 20, 2019
This is the kind of garbage that should unite people from all across the political spectrum.
have to say that this is totally nuts https://t.co/guboji6nxq
— Bridget Read (@bridgetgillard) September 20, 2019
elizabeth warren taking selfies is so similar to frederick douglass that she should get a dna test to see if they’re related. https://t.co/QSGCNcNBkD
— ?timrivard (@TimRivard) September 20, 2019
this reminds me of the strong similarities between me and Martin Luther King Jr. (both wore shirts most of the time)
— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) September 20, 2019
This is wrong on many levels. Elizabeth Warren selfies: Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Warren's selfies do the same? – The Washington Post https://t.co/L5S5bg5OTy
— Kreilly65 (@Kreilly65) September 20, 2019
Jesus Christ, are you kidding me. https://t.co/7QLBpUHJYN
— Steve Kramer ? (@TheScooterbird) September 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren selfies: Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Warren's selfies do the same? – The Washington Post
This is just plain stupid and insulting to the memory of Frederick Douglass. https://t.co/reVXK27Sxh— cjokay (@cjokay) September 19, 2019
Just when you think @washingtonpost can't get anymore absurd in their campaign to prop up @ewarren (and defeat @BernieSanders), they are now comparing Warren taking selfies with people to……Frederick Douglass https://t.co/FpOh71qxOn
— Jordan (@JordanChariton) September 20, 2019
Quite literally, the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in The Washington Post—and that includes everything Chris @CillizzaCNN ever wrote for the @washingtonpost. https://t.co/df7FamY4bR
— LeonidWisdom (@LeonidWisdom) September 20, 2019
We’ve seen a buttload of embarrassingly bad takes in the Washington Post, but this has got to be one of the worst.
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.
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
i too have applesauce for brains and would like a job as a journalist please
— JUSTIN SEXTON (@justsext) September 20, 2019
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