Tale Of Two Tweets: How The Village Tilts The Narrative

By Karoli Kuns — September 11, 2015

Thursday morning, reporter Karen Tumulty tweeted this, based on a photo she took from what was apparently backstage looking toward the stage where Hillary Clinton was either scheduled to appear or had appeared.

Not exactly a packed house for @HillaryClinton women's event in Columbus. pic.twitter.com/uDB4U0MZ8M

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) September 10, 2015

Karen Murphy was in attendance and she tweeted this video later in the day. Same place, same balcony, same bunting. But lots and lots of people.

Paging @ktumulty "@NickMerrill: .@edhenry @HillaryClinton there are 700 very energized supporters here... pic.twitter.com/TaW8Nq3ZAq"

— Karen Murphy (@MDHillRaiser) September 10, 2015

Nick Merrill then tweeted this video from Milwaukee.

.@edhenry here's some more from Milwaukee. And this is JUST the overflow! cc: @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/k2dV8np02f

— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) September 10, 2015

Unfortunately, by then the narrative had taken hold, and the replies to Tumulty's tweet were what you might expect. Replies like this:

https://twitter.com/Agent_54/status/641990788755226624

@TJMitchJohnson @HillaryClinton @ktumulty Even the feminists are sick and tired of her meaningless platitudes.

— Rep. Steven Smith (@RepStevenSmith) September 10, 2015

@ktumulty @HillaryClinton Maybe intelligent women explained to the feminist warriors there is more to life than free birth control!

— Donna (@DJLugoff) September 10, 2015

@posglen @ktumulty @HillaryClinton There is still time to get on the @BernieSanders team where they'd be a hero every day

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 10, 2015

@ktumulty @HillaryClinton it looks like her husband isn't the only one she couldn't satisfy.

— A. (@your_ignorantia) September 10, 2015

Mission accomplished.

If you are a Bernie Sanders supporter, you should object to this kind of bias, because it will happen to him, too. Same for O'Malley supporters. The only difference will be that the attacks will be on their politics, not their gender.

Just in case you thought the sexism was imagined.

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