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In reply to the discussion: The AP desperately needs to get its shit together and start existing in the 21st Century… [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)24. "Extra color?"
The AP clearly identified her as an "actor's wife," as if that was the single most important factor in her representation of an Egyptian defendant. There was no capacity at all as Clooney's wife in which she was doing her own freaking job.
The woman was an internationally renown Human Rights Lawyer and activist long before she even laid eyes on George Clooney.
Rather than the writer of that tweet being lazy and pretty freaking sexist, I think that they should have taken the time to give her the credit of her own accomplishments, rather than pandering to the ignorant, fame-obsessed masses.
Her marriage to Clooney is no more than an after-thought and not an endorsement of her skills as a lawyer and activist.
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The AP desperately needs to get its shit together and start existing in the 21st Century… [View all]
MrScorpio
Sep 2015
OP
AP gave themselves away when they recently purposely distorted a nuclear agreement story about Iran.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#1
Also, thanks for your background. Ron Fornier who is now head of the RW National Review
erronis
Sep 2015
#13
Working at the AP was something we all regarded as similar to being in the Army.
calimary
Sep 2015
#40
Should Jill Biden be referred to as "Professor of English at Northern VA Community College"?
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#19
In what capacity as George Clooney's wife did Amal Clooney represent the defendant? nt
MrScorpio
Sep 2015
#20
If she's representing someone in court, it's pretty obvious that she's a lawyer.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#21
Some call it "extra color" while others (more accurately) call it irrelevance.
LanternWaste
Sep 2015
#22
I doubt that this would even be a news story if she wasn't married to Clooney.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#23
Neither you nor I would ever have heard of her if not for her marriage to George.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#25
I think it's a little pretentious for those with non-medical doctoral degrees
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#42
First of all I have a somewhat limited capacity for worry and right now its pretty well used up
tularetom
Sep 2015
#36
Yeah, the fact that she changed her name to "Clooney" kind of confirms your last point (nt)
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#37