Non-scandal

Mainstream media can’t be bothered with a horrendously corrupt president. But when a woman candidate is rising in the polls the mainstream media is way too eager to create scandals out of nothing. The lastest hit was by the Washington Post whose headline (all that I read) shouted, "While Teaching, Elizabeth Warren Worked on More Than 50 Legal Matters, Charging as Much as $675 an Hour."

Mikal Jollett tweeted some sarcasm:

Let me get this straight, While the laziest President in history fucks off and plays golf, the best scandal the Washington Post can come up with is that Elizabeth Warren once worked TWO JOBS?

"I can't believe this woman had the gall to EARN money instead of, say, LAUNDERING it through shady real estate deals in Florida."

"Oh no, I can't believe this brilliant woman made her money as a bad-ass attorney instead of, say, inheriting it from her rich racist dad."

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville adds her own sarcasm:

WOW SCANDALOUS! A woman didn't work for free! Call the police!
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Barack Obama held office as president for 8 years, and ran for the office for 2 years before that, and, in that entire decade, I don't believe I ever once heard anything about the hourly rate he earned as an attorney.

What was Mitt Romney's hourly rate at Bain Capital? How much did George W. Bush earn hourly consulting for Satan? Where are Donald Trump's motherfucking taxes?

Another bad headline from the Daily Beast: “Mr. Nice Cory Booker Is Quietly Knifing His Rivals” McEwan calls them out too:

In an era where the sitting president will literally just spew bile about his critics' appearance and calls for his political opponents to be jailed, it's quite the choice to accuse Booker of "knifing his rivals" for stuff like a tame criticism about rich candidates funding their own vanity presidential runs.

I also have to say I find it objectionable to use violent imagery about a man of color, especially one who has spoken passionately, personally, and at length about being animated in his public service by the violence he has seen in his community.