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(56,582 posts) Thu Nov 5, 2015, 10:39 PM Nov 2015

Classy... WSJ captions O'Malley as "an unidentified man"

Yes, they were trolling. Still...

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Classy... WSJ captions O'Malley as "an unidentified man" (Original Post) Recursion Nov 2015 OP

Wow.. one_voice Nov 2015 #1

Well ain't that special. MH1 Nov 2015 #2

MO'M's campaign was much more charitable than I would have been: elleng Nov 2015 #3

OK, *that's* classy.... (nt) Recursion Nov 2015 #4

That's a pretty f-ed up thing to do for a major publication. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #5

In fairness, it was a blog post, not their reporting team (nt) Recursion Nov 2015 #6

Hmm, ok. The screen shot made it seem like digital front page. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #7

one_voice

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1. Wow..

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Thu Nov 5, 2015, 10:59 PM

Nov 2015

Douchers.

MH1

(17,600 posts)

2. Well ain't that special.

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Thu Nov 5, 2015, 11:12 PM

Nov 2015

A-holes.

elleng

(131,063 posts)

3. MO'M's campaign was much more charitable than I would have been:

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Thu Nov 5, 2015, 11:22 PM

Nov 2015

'The caption first gained Twitter's attention after Matthew Gertz, the research director at Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group founded by Clinton loyalist David Brock, tweeted out a link noting the "brutal" caption.

On Thursday, Lis Smith, a spokesperson for the O'Malley campaign, accused Gertz of taking the "week old caption out of context."

"Unlike you, we got the joke," Smith wrote.'

http://www.wyff4.com/money/wsjs-joke-finally-gets-martin-omalley-some-attention/36286520