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Progressive blogger fired for calling Hillary Clinton ally a 'scumbag'
Last edited Sat May 21, 2016, 11:06 PM - Edit history (1)
A progressive blogger was fired Friday for referring to a Hillary Clinton ally as a “scumbag,” igniting a fiery social-media exchange between the two and other high-profile writers who are at odds over the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Bruenig said Tanden “tried to starve me and my mother because she wanted to be in Democratic politics,” and advanced the position that Tanden supported welfare reform in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was president. Bruenig has been critical of Clinton in his writings, calling her "an enemy of the poor" and "a garbage rich person."
Tanden tweeted at Bruenig that “having been on welfare myself, don’t need lectures on this topic from you.”
Bruenig replied with this tweet: “Scumbag Neera uses welfare when she needs it then takes away from others when they need it. Disgusting.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-walsh-hillary-clinton-223439
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Bruenig said Tanden “tried to starve me and my mother because she wanted to be in Democratic politics,” and advanced the position that Tanden supported welfare reform in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was president. Bruenig has been critical of Clinton in his writings, calling her "an enemy of the poor" and "a garbage rich person."
Tanden tweeted at Bruenig that “having been on welfare myself, don’t need lectures on this topic from you.”
Bruenig replied with this tweet: “Scumbag Neera uses welfare when she needs it then takes away from others when they need it. Disgusting.”
Consensus among progressive twitter seems to be that Demos overreacted by firing Matt Bruenig, who has done very good work researching and reporting on child poverty. Also that Hillary allies blew this way out of proportion, which led to him being fired.
Some reactions can be seen here:
https://twitter.com/search?q=matt%20bruenig&src=typd
Neera T. and her crew helped get Matt Bruenig fired. Her comments about healthcare "freeloaders" were 1000 times more offensive. Maybe Neera Tanden should be fired.
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