2. The headline on this piece referred to (and still returns to, in the thumbnail) "blue-collar voters" she says she talked to. Actually, she talked to a *general surgeon* and his rich family, and no one else.
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1. Salena Zito wrote an intellectually dishonest, inaccurate, anti- everyone-but-rich-people column today. That, in itself, probably isn't news. But it's funny that she's used the same exact same Trump supporter FOUR TIMES recently.https://nypost.com/2018/01/31/donald-trump-is-still-the-man-to-these-blue-collar-voters/ …
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3. Now the headline says something about "this Pennsylvania house," headed by Dr. Anthony Ripepi. She datelines it Venetia, disguising that everyone would ID Peters Township outside Pittsburgh as a place rich people live.
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4. She writes, "They are the upper-middle-class suburban voters who live in a blue-collar. upper-middle-class exurb," either because she thinks that means something or because she gathers that her readers and all of us are stupid.
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5. What a find, this Dr. Anthony Ripepi. Especially back when she first quoted him to embody all Trump supporters while downplaying his wealth, in November 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/trumps-voters-wont-mind-if-he-doesnt-keep-all-his-promises/?utm_term=.0a4c6af10f1a …pic.twitter.com/NKema2IN2Y
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6. Or another time she quoted him, less than a month ago, January 2018. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/america-to-obama-stop-now-you-lost/article/2610925 …pic.twitter.com/AgW8xwPur4
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7. For Pete's sake, Salena Zito *already did the thing where she wrote a whole column about this one guy*. February 2017.pic.twitter.com/2GaCgFnmKx
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8. Interestingly, these four pieces appear in four different places. Maybe there were four different editors. It probably doesn't matter.
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9. Still, the greatest sin here is Zito's implication that Doc Ripepi is some special kind of voter. Hems not. He is *literally* the 1 percent. He was always voting for Trump.
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10. Shame on Salena Zito, her editors and these publications. A national writer shouldn't use the same guy four times in 15 months to represent a whole segment of the electorate, even if he *was* the blue-collar average Joe she implied he is.
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@jakebackpack for flagging today's bad column, and thank you Google for existing and making it extremely easy to find all of this.Show this thread
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