![]() ![]() These and the others are all, like Ioffe, professional journalists. Here’s some other specimens from writers: The rest support her, excuse what she said because of Trump’s own “lewd” remarks, excoriate Politico for firing her, and, amazingly say they share her sentiments in that tweet!. But no worries-Ioffe’s landed a job with The Atlantic:Īnd the latest development: 21 journalists have defended Ioffe, and only one even alludes to her tweet being reprehensible. The realization sank in further as she grasped what she had sent out to her 83,500 followers:Īlas, too late: as Snopes reports, Ioffe was fired from Politico. But she couldn’t quite get to a full apology: Shortly thereafter, Ioffe started realizing that maybe she said the wrong thing. Maybe that’s an appropriate tweet for a troll, but not for someone like Ioffe. I deplore Trump, but we gain nothing when journalists accuse him of incest. Now for a professional journalist, that’s a reprehensible thing to say. One of the Twitchy pieces is amusingly called “Finally, the wait for a pro journalist to imply there’s incest in the Trump family is over.” Indeed, for here’s Ioffe’s Fatal Tweet (now deleted but saved for posterity): Many of her pieces, I should add, are thoughtful and good.) ![]() I’ve previously taken apart one of her religion-coddling pieces that was published in Foreign Policy. Ioffe was the Russian correspondent for the New Yorker, then a senior editor for The New Republic, and most recently wrote for Politico. ![]() Twitchy ( here and here), as well as many other outlets, reported that journalist Julia Ioffe made a rather substantial gaffe on Twitter. ![]()
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