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eridani

(51,907 posts) Fri Dec 11, 2015, 09:44 AM Dec 2015

Mother of well-known conservative blogger and pundit shoots holes in his story

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/9/1458583/-Mother-of-well-known-conservative-blogger-and-pundit-shoots-holes-in-his-story

Ruh-roh. Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, has some explaining to do. It all started when he sent out the following tweet on the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor:

Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th. They were children of WWII.

Twitter users far and wide ridiculed the tweet and mocked his family’s annual racist tradition and noted many of the people who lived in the area around Pearl Harbor at the time (and still do today) are Asian-American. Not to mention the fact that many countries in Asia were allies of the United States in WWII.

Just when Erick thought the drama was likely dying down, J.K. Trotter at Gawker reached out to his mother to confirm the story:

“I’ve never heard that before,” Erickson’s mother, Kathleen Erickson, told Gawker when we asked about Erickson’s statement in a telephone conversation this morning. After we read aloud her son’s tweet to her, she insisted, “Whatever you heard, I think that is completely your idea, I have never heard of that before. Somebody is making that up about my son.”