Politico posted a tweet that said "Bernie Sanders might still be cheap, but he's sure not poor" and a link to their article about Bernie Sanders' wealth. They later deleted the tweet and posted an apology.
Original tweet:
If you paste the twitter url into google you can still view the google cache version.
The new tweet and the apology:
They have not changed any of the images.
Some background on the use of $100 bills aka Benjamins as political commentary from February.
Some context for those who do not know who Bernie Sanders is
This is part of a larger trend of antisemitic incidents that have increased in frequency since the 2016 election.
What are they doing over at Politico? I thought they were a serious newspaper. They need to issue a proper apology and denounce this garbage. Are the mainstream media going to turn into Breitbart because a jewish candidate is running for president?
Original tweet:
If you paste the twitter url into google you can still view the google cache version.
The new tweet and the apology:
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Bernie Sanders has three homes and a net worth approaching at least $2 million.
In a strict, bottom-line sense, he has become one of those rich people against whom he has so unrelentingly railed.
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For the record: This replaces a deleted tweet that needed more context. Our apologies.
politico
Bernie Sanders has three homes and a net worth approaching at least $2 million.
In a strict, bottom-line sense, he has become one of those rich people against whom he has so unrelentingly railed.
POLITICO✔
politico
For the record: This replaces a deleted tweet that needed more context. Our apologies.
They have not changed any of the images.
Some background on the use of $100 bills aka Benjamins as political commentary from February.
Some context for those who do not know who Bernie Sanders is
This is part of a larger trend of antisemitic incidents that have increased in frequency since the 2016 election.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/1/18524103/poway-synagogue-shooting-anti-semitism
The jump from 2016 to 2017 was, per the ADL, the largest single-year increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in its 40 years of collecting data. The report doesn't break down incidents by ideology of the perpetrator, but a separate ADL research paper found that 49 of the 50 extremist murders in 2018 were committed by far-right extremists (rather than, for example, far-leftists or jihadists).
It also so happens that the surge in anti-Semitism began as Trump's fortunes rose politically — and it's very hard not to conclude that there's at least some connection there. This is certainly the sense of what's happening in the Jewish community: A staggering 81 percent of American Jews describe themselves as becoming "more concerned" about anti-Semitism in the US since Trump took office, per a 2018 GBA Strategy poll conducted for the left-leaning Jewish group J Street.
What are they doing over at Politico? I thought they were a serious newspaper. They need to issue a proper apology and denounce this garbage. Are the mainstream media going to turn into Breitbart because a jewish candidate is running for president?
