A White House reporter is apologizing to Trump supporters for his caustic remarks last night after watching CNN Jim Acosta getting heckled by an angry crowd in the video Acosta posted.
Via Washington Times:
Politico reporter Marc Caputo apologized Wednesday morning for contributing to the “cycle of rage” after he mocked a video of Trump supporters on Twitter.
The video, posted by CNN’s Jim Acosta, showed attendees booing and screaming at the media during President Trump’s rally Tuesday night in Florida.
“Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa,” the chief White House correspondent wrote.
In a now-deleted tweet, Mr. Caputo quipped, “If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”
That didn’t go over very well and even Meghan McCain called him out for it:
This is so gross and this kind of statement is what so many in the middle of the country think the media thinks of them. @politico should hold their reporters to a higher standard. https://t.co/LEDZBKq96g
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 1, 2018
But that didn’t stop Caputo from defending his insulting tweet:
"humorlessness" https://t.co/QtKExxmzTZ
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
I'd argue i was more clever
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
So you're more annoyed by the snark than the behavior snarked upon? I still don't understand.
The good news is you will be more disappointed with me in the future
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
Caputo also tweeted:
He’s since deleted that tweet.
This morning, he’s had a sudden change of heart and is now apologizing:
I need to apologize for tweeting caustic remarks after seeing a reporter berated & abused. Hate begets hate. My comments referred ONLY to those jeering and swearing at the man, not a broad swath of people. But the fault is mine for causing confusion and feeding anger. 1/3
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
In the age of social media, where divisiveness serves no decent purpose, these flippant comments on my part only made things worse and contributed to a cycle of rage that I should not have inflamed further. So I'm sorry. 2/3
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
While it’s usually a good idea to just delete tweets that are wrong, I own this and the criticism (both accurate and misleading) that has followed. I'll do better. Here they are: 3/3 pic.twitter.com/G2rZrHjYWb
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 1, 2018
It’s good he apologized but many will have trouble taking him seriously given how unapologetic he was when he was tweeting, instead believing that his Politico bosses made him apologize after he got ‘caught’. Which is probably true.