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Reporter @ProPublica. "Like Lead Belly says, no use for the bourgeois towns." alec.macgillis@propublica.org

Baltimore via Pittsfield, Mass
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    Alec MacGillis‏Verified account @AlecMacGillis 10 Sep 2016

    Yowza. @b_ehrenreich calls Hillary an "elitist snob who writes off about a quarter of the American public as pond scum" #basketofdeplorables

    11:52 AM - 10 Sep 2016
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      2. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 12 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis

        Where did @B_Ehrenreich say that?

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      3. Alec MacGillis‏Verified account @AlecMacGillis 12 Sep 2016
        Replying to @jonathanchait @B_Ehrenreich

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        Facebook post: https://twitter.com/pdraf/status/774698247872884736 …

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      1. Cindy McNary‏ @Nadomom 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis

        , please let me know your thoughts on these kind and compassionate folks: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/us/politics/donald-trump-supporters.html … @AlecMacGillis

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      1. Joe Cockman‏ @joecockman 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        2 call out sexists, racists, bigots, homophobes 4 deplorable views does not make u snob. was call 4 empathy 2

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      1. Lucas Schaefer‏ @LucasESchaefer 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        maybe she should spend a year living undercover at Trump rallies and report back

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      1. The New Normal‏ @ThBaltimoreChop 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        so Barbara is standing up for racists and homophobes. Cool, cool.

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      1. how'd we get here?‏ @sarahfdavis280 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        so what should white supremacists be called?Evil happens when people do nothing.Hill is only one confronting it

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      2. Cate Long‏Verified account @cate_long 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis

        what Barbra says is true. Clinton's little forays outside her protective bubble left her with some major hatred @b_ehrenreich

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      3. how'd we get here?‏ @sarahfdavis280 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @cate_long @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        how should we describe the racists and bigots if deplorable offends you?pic.twitter.com/FJ54CijsUW

        3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. Judy Raddue‏ @SilvestriWoman 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sarahfdavis280 @cate_long @AlecMacGillis

        That's a photoshopped picture.http://www.snopes.com/make-america-white-again-trump/ …

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      5. Cate Long‏Verified account @cate_long 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @SilvestriWoman @sarahfdavis280 @AlecMacGillis

        that is what I figured. And @sarahfdavis280 is likely a paid Clinton troll.

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      6. mg81992‏ @mg81992 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @cate_long @SilvestriWoman and

        Photoshopped picture & paid troll notwithstanding, many Trump voters are bigoted.

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      7. how'd we get here?‏ @sarahfdavis280 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @mg81992 @cate_long and

        didn't know photoshopped. My bad. Not a troll. Deep respect for hill. Repulsed by trump

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. mg81992‏ @mg81992 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sarahfdavis280 @SilvestriWoman @AlecMacGillis

        That @cate_long is more repulsed by HRC & "liberals" than DJT & white supremacists is weird.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      9. Cate Long‏Verified account @cate_long 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @mg81992

        I'm more repulsed by Clinton the warmonger who cackles over killing a head of sovereign statehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y …

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      1. Kenneth Heintz‏ @ktheintz 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        choice unavoidable between that 25% and the black, Latino, Muslim and LGBT whose lives they want to ruin

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      1. Noman‏ @itnor1 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        Breitbartians are pond scum. Not 1/4. That's what she's referring to. She clarified the comment. Plain talk

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      1. grumpifrog‏ @grumpifrog 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        coming from a woman who faked a lifestyle to get rich off the poor. #norespect

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      2. JMizzle‏ @JMizzle36 10 Sep 2016
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        they are pond scum though, aren't they?

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      3. TRE45ON‏ @danahaswell 11 Sep 2016
        Replying to @JMizzle36 @AlecMacGillis @B_Ehrenreich

        Yes. Yes they are.

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