Hillary Clinton Scolds NY Times’ Maureen Dowd for Forgetting Her 2016 Run: ‘Too Much Pot Brownie’
Hillary Clinton scolded New York Times writer Maureen Dowd Saturday after the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist wrote “it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.”
“Either @timkaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again,” the 2016 presidential nominee tweeted.
Running alongside Dowd’s Saturday op-ed in the NY Times — with a subhead of “Has America grown since 1984, or will the knives still be out for Biden’s running mate?” — was a photo of the 1984 nominee of the Democratic Party and his running mate, New York congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro.
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The original story (and the tweet that went out with it) read, “It’s hard to fathom, but it took another 36 years for a man to choose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, “Gimme a break!”
Fired up readers were quick to point out that inaccuracy, siting the Clinton-Kaine ticket. The NY Times swiftly made the fix and issued a new tweet.
“Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.”
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Dowd’s piece was subsequently edited.
“On the cusp of Joe Biden teaming up with a woman, I am casting back to my time covering the first woman who was a serious contender for veep,” the new story said. She has yet to comment on the faux pas.
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