Politico Reporter Apologizes for Reposting Sexist Kamala Harris Meme After Hours of Defending It

[SidDithers]

https://www.mediaite.com/news/politico-reporter-apologizes-for-reposting-sexist-kamala-harris-meme-after-hours-of-defending-it-and-getting-dragged/

Politico reporter Marc Caputo apologized for and deleted his retweet of an offensive meme attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, but only after spending several hours defending himself from intense online criticism, and the meme as “funny.”

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 Senate’s $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.

Sid

[Takket]

1. i don't even understand what the original tweet means......

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

?s=20

[enough]

2. Me neither. NT

[PatSeg]

3. Why the hell is that funny?

I can't even figure out what he's trying to say.

[uponit7771]

4. It's a MAGA meme intimating Kamala is a slut because she had sex before she was married

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]

25. Multiple guys at my factory say she slept her way to the top

As if the idea a woman could reach such positions without "cheating" is completely unfathomable to their limited intellects.

[JI7]

26. They have a need to believe that to make them feel better

about themselves .

[SunSeeker]

6. Apparently the person who originally tweeted the model photo thinks Harris is "SITTING" on the bill.

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]

8. So is that person of the Sirota far left ? This is confusing.

[SunSeeker]

9. No idea, but it's obviously wrong and stupid on so many levels. nt

[OnDoutside]

14. Sorry I meant the faris_jake that Caputo retweeted

[spooky3]

11. And, as commenters to Caputo pointed out, he's chosen a photo

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]

5. I don't get the actual meme. That said that usual cancel mob are

doing their thing at the moment, and bearing in mind Palmeri getting TJ Ducklo fired, I have little sympathy for Politico employees.

[lapucelle]

7. I don't understand it either. Why is this supposed to be funny? N/T

[lapucelle]

10. For context on Marc Caputo: "Journalist defends 2016 reporting that used Russian-hacked documents"

In November, 60 Minutes traveled to Florida to report on Russia's hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the impact it had on one of the state's congressional races in 2016.

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]

12. Oh, it's THAT asshole.

He should not be a working journalist.

[ismnotwasm]

13. God I hate Politico

They’re stupid, and I believe they encourage their writers to come up with inane innuendo and contentless, wordy crap.

[Polly Hennessey]

15. Sure am glad I don't understand stupid.

Sex before marriage: doesn’t that include almost everyone? Certainly the Moronic Idiot falls in that category. The Maga crowd are devolving. Politico has always been low-life.

[NurseJackie]

16. "Politico is trash. They're the TMZ of politics."

My new sigline.

[mcar]

17. Tiger Beat on the Potomac

Charlie Pierce

[BlueLucy]

18. It's not ambiguous

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]

19. And when one considers how they have been attacking her

we know what they are trying to do with this.

[BlueLucy]

20. 100%

It's the tired old suggestion Kamala slept her way up to success.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. They're scared shitless that she might be President some day.

[raccoon]

22. What is TMZ? Nt

[JI7]

23. Celeb Gossip , tabloid site

[hatrack]

24. Politico is the cloud of flies - Real Clear Politics is the pile of shit they orbit

And BTW, what the hell is the point of that Tweet? A hot woman in scanty clothing so people will look?