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niyad

(113,485 posts)
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 01:25 PM Aug 2017

Stupidest White House Correspondent On Internet Tells Native Americans To Go Back To Mexico

please, read the whole thing, the comments and pics are priceless)

They Need To Listen To Rush More

Stupidest White House Correspondent On Internet Tells Native Americans To Go Back To Mexico


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Flipping off Mount Rushmore is not in the Constitution!

Lucian Wintrich, the Milo-in-Training of Jim Hoft, the Stupidest Man on the Internet, found a thing to be outraged about over the weekend: a photo of three of those people flipping off the big stonefaces of Mt. Rushmore. He has a very important thought for stupid clueless liberals everywhere to consider:

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It’s true: “Why did we ever let these people into our country if they treat our sacred places like this?” is certainly what the Lakota people have long thought about the theft of their land and the desecration of the place that used to be called Six Grandfathers. Unfortunately, it’s a little late for them to toughen up the lax immigration laws of 1492, so the interlopers stayed and decided the place belonged to them. And now the descendants of the invaders wish there were some way to send rude indigenous people back where they came from, or something.

Wintrich’s Tweet was met with some enthusiasm by one guy, who thinks it’s awfully hypocritical of people to come from foreign lands and wave their foreign flags around here, unless of course it’s an Irish flag in his own Twitter profile:

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Most of the replies were a bit more scathing in pointing out that the stupid bigot wasn’t even being a bigot in the right direction — the whole thread is good for a laugh. One set of replies came from a Tweetperson who thought maybe those words were being applied to the wrong foreign intruders:

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Our favorite exchange involved a guy who didn’t really seem to understand who the First People on this here continent actually were:

Read more at https://wonkette.com/620990/stupidest-white-house-correspondent-on-internet-tells-native-americans-to-go-back-to-mexico#Qgdd8xTm1wmjEgyb.99

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Stupidest White House Correspondent On Internet Tells Native Americans To Go Back To Mexico (Original Post) niyad Aug 2017 OP
These really really dumb, racist people, have one of their very own in the WH. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1
Wow. And then he retweeted Wonkette! progressoid Aug 2017 #2
he did not get that he was being mocked????? niyad Aug 2017 #10
I don't think he cares. progressoid Aug 2017 #13
what a fine, upstanding person!! niyad Aug 2017 #14
K and R to expose the ignorance of right wingers among us. oasis Aug 2017 #3
Damn Solly Mack Aug 2017 #4
Lucian? Sounds like a European Name Doug the Dem Aug 2017 #5
But, But... Oubaas Aug 2017 #6
Thanks for the... Omaha Steve Aug 2017 #7
I figure we need all of them we can get these days!! niyad Aug 2017 #9
The stupid burns malaise Aug 2017 #8
. . . . niyad Aug 2017 #11
K&R jpak Aug 2017 #12

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. These really really dumb, racist people, have one of their very own in the WH.
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 01:31 PM
Aug 2017

Boy do we need to come together and agree to vote for ANY democrat NO MATTER WHAT or what?

progressoid

(49,992 posts)
13. I don't think he cares.
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 12:22 PM
Aug 2017
Lucian Wintrich, a writer for The Gateway Pundit who mocks "serious journalists," admits: "Half of what I do is f—ing with people."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/48-hours-media-troll-who-is-part-white-house-press-corps-997040

Lucian Wintrich paced in front of the White House, a cellphone pinned to his ear. On the line was his boss, Jim Hoft, founder of The Gateway Pundit, a right wing blog that dabbles in conspiracy theories for the site's 5 million monthly readers. "This makes me look like a pussy," he muttered, "like I didn't want to go in today." Moments earlier, the White House had denied Wintrich access to a daily briefing with White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Wintrich, 28, suggested that Hoft pull some strings and "get in touch with Hicks or Bannon … maybe Hicks?" He was referring to President Trump's director of strategic communications, Hope Hicks, and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who is openly contemptuous of the mainstream media.

Since Wintrich had been named the site's first White House correspondent, he had struggled with the newness of Washington. Gay and nominally Jewish, he felt more at home in New York, where he had worked as a "creative" at a prominent ad agency and a club promoter. He dated a creative-writing student and model from Colombia and took filter-heavy pictures of scantily clad teen boys. But Wintrich was no liberal. He had grown disillusioned with progressive politics during college, and his contrarian stances sharpened during the election. At the Republican National Convention, he had gathered his pictures into an exhibit called "Twinks for Trump," in which boys sported "Make America Great Again" caps. He parlayed his transformation from a college progressive to a Milo Yiannopoulos disciple, and then, with nearly no training in journalism, befriended Hoft, who helped him grab a powerful seat in the elite world of Washington media. He's one of a few dozen people who have a badge and an invite to the James S. Brady briefing room and consistent access to many of Trump's most senior advisers. In recent weeks, he's written about North Korea, Russia and Trump's relationship with the media.

Now Wintrich was wondering aloud whether his exclusion was part of a liberal media conspiracy. He turned to tell an interviewer from WeAreChange.com that a "nefarious plot" had been hatched by the White House Correspondents' Association.


To an observer, the display felt like a temper tantrum, and by design, it probably was. It also felt in keeping with the media circus that has emerged out of Trump's arrival in Washington, where a penumbra of reality television seems to hang over everything. Trump's late-night tweet storms and his bashing of reputable media outlets as "fake news" have fostered relentless, high-octane drama. The turmoil has blown open space for exploitation by outlets long considered fringe or disreputable. This is where Wintrich, who proudly proclaims himself a media troll, lives. "Like, obviously I'll take the occasional jab at media," he said. "Because I hate them all."

The distaste is mutual. "You can't call what he does reporting," says one longtime White House correspondent for a top U.S. newsweekly. "It's just offensive and meant to be provocative.

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