NPR ripped for now-deleted tweet noting 'disappointment' after Boston elected its first person of color as mayor. Why? Michelle Wu isn't black.



Well, that was awkward.

Far-left leaning National Public Radio got an earful Tuesday after tweeting about Michelle Wu becoming the first woman and first person of color to take office as Boston's mayor.

What are the details?

And why would that be controversial? Because the second part of NPR's tweet noted the "disappointment" felt over the fact that black candidates weren't anywhere near Wu in the hunt for victory.

The now-deleted tweet read, "Michelle Wu, an Asian American, is the first woman of color elected to lead the city. While many are hailing it as a turning point, others see it as a more of a disappointment that the three Black candidates couldn't even come close."

And notable observers didn't take kindly to the tweet:

Ponder this deleted tweet by @NPR. Imagine the kind of worldview one has to think this way\u2014hyper race consciousness, obsession with racial hierarchies, and merit & fairness inversion. Now imagine an entire channel devoted to promulgating this ideology. That is what NPR has becomepic.twitter.com/Y9MEXTIXvs

— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) 1637088078

So it's a "disappointment" to have an Asian, rather than Black, mayor\n\nWhatever happened to #StopAsianHate?

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) 1637084863

NPR appears to be having a struggle session because the wrong type of female minority won the Boston mayoral election.pic.twitter.com/FPwKHbEB0a

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) 1637089818

Michelle Wu, an Asian American, is the first woman first person of color elected to lead the city of #Boston. But woke @NPR thinks Wu's win is a let down.https://www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1055972179/boston-first-black-mayor\u00a0\u2026

— Helen Raleigh (@HRaleighspeaks) 1637091107

The tweet by @NPR was deleted but here is a screenshot.\n\nNPR demonstrates once again it is undeserving of taxpayer funded grants.pic.twitter.com/qPEmI6rNAd

— Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) 1637087540

According to Independent Journal Review, the headline of NPR's related story initially read, "Cheers and some letdown as 1st elected woman and person of color becomes Boston Mayor."

But that all changed hours later, IJR said.

It seems NPR got the message that they were out of line loud and clear, and the outlet said it deleted the initial "disappointment" tweet and did a do-over: "We realize we don't always get things right the first time, and our previous tweet/headline misrepresented the story. We deleted the previous tweet, which was causing harm, and have updated the story."

We realize we don't always get things right the first time, and our previous tweet/headline misrepresented the story. \n\nWe deleted the previous tweet, which was causing harm, and have updated the story

— NPR (@NPR) 1637087776

The story's new headline reads, "Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor."

However, the opening paragraph of the story still reads much the same as the problematic initial tweet: "For the first time in its history, Boston is inaugurating a newly-elected mayor on Tuesday who is not a white man. Michelle Wu — who's Asian American — is the first woman and first person of color elected to lead the city. While many are hailing it as a major turning point, others see it as more of a disappointment that the three Black candidates in the race couldn't even come close."

(H/T: IJR)

Joy Reid admits she was vaccine 'hesitant' under Trump because former president was 'controlling,' 'manipulating' CDC and FDA



It's a good week to be Joy Reid.

Sitting upon her posh MSNBC pedestal, the host of "The Reid Out" took COVID-19 potshots at rapper Nicki Minaj one day and the entire Republican Party on another — and as a result Reid's name has been all over social media.

It's commentary and part of what she does and completely fair game — but when unsubstantiated stuff is baked into her rapid-fire delivery, it needs to be noted at the very least.

Such as Reid's wild rant saying Republicans "love COVID so much" they "want it to spread into schools, at the office, in the Walmart, on the cruise ships, and at the club" — and even "want it pumping through [their] veins with an ivermectin chaser."

Or Reid's unprovable accusation that Minaj, by expressing her vaccine hesitancy on Twitter, "put people in the position of dying" of the virus.

The hits just keep on coming

But viral social media hits are at stake here, folks — and Reid smelled the blood in the water and kept going for the jugular on Thursday.

Speaking to author and professor Michael Eric Dyson about Minaj's vaccine hesitancy — and general hesitancy in the black community — Reid revisited her own reluctance to get a COVID-19 vaccine not long ago.

"I was hesitant," Reid told Dyson. "When [former President] Donald Trump was out there controlling the CDC and controlling the FDA and manipulating them and making them put out falsehoods, anybody rational was hesitant."

But now with President Joe Biden in office, Reid is just fine with the vaccines and added to Dyson that "the reality is now, what I really fear is ... more masses of people dying ... and disproportionally they look like you and me, Michael. And what scares me is that people are creating a cultural imperative to set themselves up for death when the people pushing them to do it like Tuckums [i.e. Fox News' Tucker Carlson] are vaccinated and safe — and even if they got COVID are gonna get all the monoclonal antibodies. They could give a damn if Nicki Minaj gets COVID and dies. They don't give a damn about us."

Joy Reid again defends her belief that it was NECESSARY to be anti-vaxxer when Trump was in office: "I was hesitant… https://t.co/gEgRj89g9e

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) 1631837189.0

How did folks react to Reid's claims?

Quite a few observers were only too happy to point out Reid's partisan-fueled vaccine hesitancy when Trump was in office. Here's the start of a Twitter thread containing a jaw-dropping number of examples of Reid's crusade under Trump:

She’s trending so brief🧵thread🧵chronically the times that @JoyAnnReid used her platform to push unfounded vaccine… https://t.co/0nOHIgoAjP

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) 1631816719.0

And while the following tweet is noted in the above thread, it deserves a spotlight, since Reid actually declared vaccine hesitancy even if Biden were elected:

Image source: Twitter

Others had the following to say:

  • "It's the same vaccine," one Twitter user observed.
  • "OMG. That was rich. She acts as though we're talking about a different vaccine, a different CDC and a different FDA than we were a year ago," another user said. "Nothing has changed except now Joe Biden is in the White House. What a flake."
  • "Joy was against vaccine when Trump was in office but now OKs mandating the exact same vaccine because... science?" another commenter asked. "Joy is a racist. Joy could care less about people dying or the efficacy of the vaccine. She pushes whatever narrative she is told and lives untouched in her bubble."
  • "More proof that if Trump told everyone to wear masks in March 2020, the entire left would be anti-maskers," another commenter noted.

CNN's Chris Cuomo dares Twitter user to name just one time he's denied facts he doesn't like — then the replies come rolling in



After the tongue lashing President Joe Biden gave CNN's Kaitlan Collins for her Vladimir Putin question earlier this week — for which Biden later apologized — far-left actress Rosanna Arquette was in no mood to make nice with the media.

Instead, she tweeted that the president was "right to lose his patience with a journalist or any journalist who tries to twist his words. Calling that crap out is the way forward. Enough bulls**t. The truth and nothing but the truth."

With that CNN's Chris Cuomo replied to Arquette that the "problem is truth is now at the mercy of what people want to be true. If you don't like it...it isn't the truth."

That apparently was too much to take for another Twitter user, who promptly called out Cuomo: "The story of your life, you constantly deny facts you don't like."

Uh oh.

Given the CNN host once threatened a guy in public who referred to him as Fredo, the weak brother in "The Godfather," Cuomo shot back and challenged his Twitter adversary to "name one" example:

It's on!

As you might guess, Twitter went a little nuts after Cuomo threw down — and his tweet has been getting ratioed ever since, showing about 2,500 replies to just 741 likes as of Friday afternoon.

And what did some of those replies contain? Well, a decent number answered Cuomo's dare to name just one example of him denying facts he doesn't like.

Commentary writer Drew Holden offered a few examples:

@ChrisCuomo Rebekah Jones https://t.co/jV0KbgwXDy

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) 1623938217.0

@ChrisCuomo Antifa https://t.co/9Hb66i8s3A

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) 1623938250.0

The Daily Caller chimed in, too:

@ChrisCuomo https://t.co/aFMwe3olRK

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) 1623939880.0

This guy put a humorous spin on his contribution:

@ChrisCuomo https://t.co/VH3IaTldiv

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) 1623939425.0

Also:

@ChrisCuomo Will you admit that the Hunter Biden laptop isn’t Russian disinformation or are you still clinging to that lie?

— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) 1623985364.0

Another user offered a doozy of a reply: "Not enough Twitter space for your idiocy. Michael Avenatti BS; Covington kids lies; Brett Kavanaugh distortion; Russia Collusion over and over; Your Covid deception, etc. When people look for the 'Great Deceiver' on CNN they will say…'I knew it was you, Fredo. I knew it was you!'"

Here's more on the matter from Sky News:

Twitter roasts CNN's Chris Cuomo after he dares them to show examples of him denying factsyoutu.be