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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitico Reporter Apologizes for Reposting Sexist Kamala Harris Meme After Hours of Defending It
https://www.mediaite.com/news/politico-reporter-apologizes-for-reposting-sexist-kamala-harris-meme-after-hours-of-defending-it-and-getting-dragged/On Friday, Caputo retweeted a meme from a now-locked Twitter account that featured a photo of a scantily-clad model who had posted the picture with the caption Sitting, and which was re-captioned Kamala Harris on the Senates $15/hour minimum wage legislation.
Lots of screenshots of Caputo mocking his critics and defending his retweeting.
Politico is trash. They're the TMZ of politics.
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Takket
(21,775 posts)I don't get it??? It is just some random picture of a model. What does it have to do with Harris or minimum wage or anything else?
Link to tweet
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(13,287 posts)PatSeg
(47,876 posts)I can't even figure out what he's trying to say.
uponit7771
(90,382 posts)MAGA minions hate sex because they're horrible at it so if anyone woman had sex before they were married they are demonized in their cult world.
The meme starts from Willie Brown and her relationship with him it's a mean spirit and a stupid ass meme like most of their dumb esoteric shit.
NickB79
(19,316 posts)As if the idea a woman could reach such positions without "cheating" is completely unfathomable to their limited intellects.
JI7
(89,322 posts)about themselves .
SunSeeker
(51,919 posts)It appears they were blaming Harris for the minimum wage portion of the bill not passing. Really stupid. And of course sexist to depict Harris as a lingerie model.
OnDoutside
(19,993 posts)SunSeeker
(51,919 posts)OnDoutside
(19,993 posts)spooky3
(34,582 posts)of a woman allowing herself to be objectified to represent the Vice President of the United States. Extremely disrespectful, especially given that nothing VP Harris has done warrants demeaning ridicule--in contrast to many actions of our former President.
Very sexist, misogynist, and racist.
OnDoutside
(19,993 posts)doing their thing at the moment, and bearing in mind Palmeri getting TJ Ducklo fired, I have little sympathy for Politico employees.
lapucelle
(18,427 posts)lapucelle
(18,427 posts)In 2016, Politico Senior Writer Marc Caputo was tipped off by a Republican operative to a cache of hacked DCCC documents, stolen by Russian GRU agents and published on a blog under the now-infamous moniker Guccifer 2.0. Among those documents, which were never intended to be seen by the public, were compromising dossiers that included the scandals, indiscretions and political vulnerabilities of the Democratic Party's own candidates in Florida races.
Even though Russian intelligence was suspected to be behind the hack, many in the mainstream media used the stolen material. Politico's Caputo used excerpts from the dossiers in one report, published just a few months before the vote, titled, "Hacked DCCC docs dish on strategy and scandal for Florida congressional candidates."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/journalist-marc-caputo-defends-reporting-that-used-russia-hacked-documents-60-minutes-2020-08-23/
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/politico-writer-defends-reporting-on-hacked-documents-in-2016-voters-have-a-right-to-that-information/
SunSeeker
(51,919 posts)He should not be a working journalist.
ismnotwasm
(42,042 posts)Theyre stupid, and I believe they encourage their writers to come up with inane innuendo and contentless, wordy crap.
Polly Hennessey
(6,836 posts)Sex before marriage: doesnt that include almost everyone? Certainly the Moronic Idiot falls in that category. The Maga crowd are devolving. Politico has always been low-life.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)My new sigline.
mcar
(42,518 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)They're saying Kamala Harris is a whore taking her time on the bill or getting in the way of passing it. It's gross.
JI7
(89,322 posts)we know what they are trying to do with this.
It's the tired old suggestion Kamala slept her way up to success.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,705 posts)raccoon
(31,158 posts)JI7
(89,322 posts)hatrack
(59,622 posts)And BTW, what the hell is the point of that Tweet? A hot woman in scanty clothing so people will look?
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