"CORRECTED: Dems Miss Insulin Pump In Video Of Perdue Signing Young Woman," reads the post now.
David Perdue, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, appeared to sign a young woman’s torso at a campaign rally on Thursday in a video distributed by a Democratic opposition research group — but further video showed that the footage was misleading....Shameful. Jackals.
“David was asked to sign an individual’s diabetic pump to help raise awareness for juvenile diabetes,” said Megan Whittemore, a Perdue spokesperson. “This was a Georgia family who shared their personal story of their struggle with ObamaCare and the rising health care costs associated with their daughter’s treatment which is not being covered by their insurance.”...
The Allen Family from Henry County, Georgia, sent this statement and image to BuzzFeed News.
"This video is extremely disrespectful to our family and our young daughter’s privacy. We were shocked when we discovered this being taken out of context because our daughter requested to have her diabetic pump signed. This is something she has done with multiple other prominent figures and will continue to do in raising awareness for juvenile diabetes. We were surrounded by friends and family who understood our daughter’s desire for privacy. We hope that the media and others will respect our wishes and make this go away for our daughter and our family."
ADDED: The cached version of the story — that is, the first link, above — even spells Perdue's name wrong.
AND: Here's how New York Magazine covered the story before understanding it:
Aspiring Georgia senator David Perdue is not Harry Styles, but he is close. At a campaign event yesterday, a young lady whose age almost definitely ends in -teen asked the candidate to take a Sharpie to her torso. "No way — ha ha," he responds awkwardly (and logically), before uncapping his marker and doing it anyway. "No pictures on this!" he says, only serving to make it a bit creepier.
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The press is liberal, and 21st century liberals do not respect the rights of individuals to privacy (or self-defense, or free speech, or a whole lot of other things).
Fools Rush In.
She made them look bad: time for her and her family to be fed to the wolves. Probably will be along the lines of 'she made herself a public figure by meeting the candidate' and thus: pinata.
Oh come on! What's the big deal even if was a torso? I mean candidates on both sides of the aisle sign women's breasts all the time out on the campaign trail.
Goddamn prudes!
I doubt they know what an insulin pump is.
"Oh come on! What's the big deal even if was a torso?"
Look around at how the story was being jumped on today before the truth came out.
Perdue (also spelled "Purdue" by Buzzfeed) was being called "creepy." People were trying to snark with questions about the "age of consent," etc. etc.
Democrats are hungry for a Todd Akin/Macaca-type story.
@Prof Althouse,
I'm sorry if my attempt at humor fell flat.
Wait! Is it really standard practice in Wisconsin for candidates to sign breasts? If so, I'm setting up residence across the street from my brother in Wauwatosa & running for office. Maryland's way too tight-ass for any of that stuff, those high-taxin' killjoys!
hahahahahaha
Oh by the way, there is a study coming out tomorrow about non-citizen voting.
you read that right.
from that bastion of conservatism, the washington post.
this is the kind of scummy behavior that one can always expect from the DemonRATs. it is not a political party, it is a cult and a criminal conspiracy.
"I'm sorry if my attempt at humor fell flat."
I realize I didn't read the second sentence. Sorry.
Well, the slander is done and that's really all that matters.
Every single democrat is a scumbag because you will not denounce this shit. You are the exact same thing as Muslims.
Embrace it assholes.
It's called confirmation bias, and the Left is particularly susceptible to it, probably because their positions can't be defended logically, so they must rely on gotcha moments, which they think they see everywhere, that they think remove the need to defend their positions because their opponents are sexist, racist, stupid, etc.
More interesting than the attempt at manufacturing a 'macaca'' moment is the way the story almost instantly backfired, courtesy of bloggers. There was a time when this might have hurt a candidate, but technology has past that by. It's what happened to Dan Rather, except now there's no excuse for being surprised. Any political operative today needs to be more careful lest a stink bomb intended for the other side blows up in his face instead.
What a wonderful thing the internet is.
Evan McMorris-Santoro
In his defense, he was probably doomed from birth, having been saddled with a horrible ball-less twink name like that.
"Democrats are hungry for a Todd Akin/Macaca-type story."
Which means they're not particularly interested in leadership, then. Or governance. Or issues. Just power. And gotcha!
Perhaps if they stuck to actually reporting, rather than acting as the propaganda arm of one political party, they could have taken the time to figure it out. Asking too much, I know.
Operatives with bylines, it's not a joke.
That New York Magazine post is amazing, they admit in their update (and modified headline) that they got the story entirely wrong, but they basically double down on their original tone. It's not even fake-but-accurate, it's more "wrong-but-who-cares, Repubs are gross."
New York Magazine's correction is hilarious.
tl;dr He knew it looked creepy and he deserved to be called a creep. It's not our fault.
This works both ways.
Not only do they search high and low for Republican fumbles, but they ignore and downplay Democrat fumbles.
Buzzfeed went full retard. You never go full retard.
Not a week after Deadspin shat the bed going after Corey Gardner.
"She made them look bad: time for her and her family to be fed to the wolves. Probably will be along the lines of 'she made herself a public figure by meeting the candidate' and thus: pinata."
Maybe they can import some Alaskan Democrats to assault her on camera. CNN is waiting...
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Oh by the way, there is a study coming out tomorrow about non-citizen voting.
you read that right.
from that bastion of conservatism, the washington post."
But...but... that doesn't even exist! Ask any Democrat!
In fact, ask them twice, they love to repeat themselves in most everything...
donald said...Every single democrat is a scumbag because you will not denounce this shit. You are the exact same thing as Muslims.
Well that's obviously not true--Muslims believe in something greater than themselves.
"More interesting than the attempt at manufacturing a 'macaca' moment is the way the story almost instantly backfired, courtesy of bloggers."
And that's why the "macaca" moment couldn't backfire. Because he really said it, and it was captured on video which got uploaded to YouTube.
Same thing with Christine O'Donnell's "I am not a witch" stupidity. Once she said that *on video*, it went viral and there was no way to save her candidacy. People who never even heard of Christine O'Donnell before got to see her gaffe, over and over.
The Internet amplifies actual gaffes. And it also enables fast exposure of fake moments too.
One more thing the Internet does is enable us to compare notes. The day is past when a politician could say one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience hundreds of miles away. Now those two audiences can talk to each other and see the duplicity.
Okay, I'll be the contrarian here.
Respect her privacy while she raises awareness for juvenile diabetes?
Those two things kind of don't fit. You would think she would want people to see figures signing the pumps as a way to raise awareness.
However, BuzzFeed is useless as an actual news reporting organization.
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