Last night, HuffPost senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery decided to use her years of journalistic training to dunk on Mike Pence for saying that “millions of Americans have been vaccinated” against COVID19, when, in fact, only millions of Americans have been vaccinated against COVID19.
Also, it’s not true that “millions of Americans” have been vaccinated, which Pence surely knows.
Roughly 2.1 million people have been vaccinated so far, per CDC. https://t.co/XCooSNoJIB
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) December 30, 2020
Since then, Bendery’s spent most of her time being dragged for her shameless hackery.
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 30, 2020
And speaking of gaslighting, here’s Jennifer this morning:
Morning! ☕️ To the 2.1M trolls I have heard from kindly telling me that 2.1M is “millions,” of course it is, technically.
Would I refer to a # barely over 2M is “millions” without citing the 2.1M? No. It misleads to suggest more, which I believe Pence is doing intentionally. https://t.co/2hb37xU3KH
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) December 30, 2020
Jennifer. Honey.
No, not technically. Factually.
— I got your #Unity right here (@jtLOL) December 30, 2020
Technically this will be true only if she hears from 2.098 million more trollshttps://t.co/NxR6XiMWoQ
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 30, 2020
Snort.
just incredible stuff pic.twitter.com/gjCgEcNHSO
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) December 30, 2020
“2.1M is “millions,” of course it is, technically”
You’re doing great! https://t.co/MCOZL2wigI
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2020
Ah, so millions. Plural. Weird. pic.twitter.com/SlkwHtq6kb
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2020
You’re doing great, Jen. https://t.co/ENw0NcThPQ
— Mo Mo (@MollyRatty) December 30, 2020
The original error was bad enough. To refuse to simply admit the error is even more embarrassing. https://t.co/fxAXxBh637
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 30, 2020
Not sure the person is capable of embarrassment. https://t.co/BJfBY1p6cL
— Brit Hume (@brithume) December 30, 2020
“Stop being factual about the GOP fact I was trying to mock as a lie” is the most 2020 journo tweet ever.
— Razor (@hale_razor) December 30, 2020
You don’t know how math or quotation marks work but at least you understand comedy.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2020
Jennifer irl: pic.twitter.com/s0IMcU7Rwy
— RaKell, the inappropriate (Sworn Enemy of Rufus!) (@MrsRotnjetski) December 30, 2020
Take the L, Jennifer… pic.twitter.com/cDLnApKJY6
— Allan (@AllanRicharz) December 30, 2020
Just take this and move on with your day ☺️ pic.twitter.com/3MZmLmIFmU
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) December 30, 2020
GP Not content to be admit error and move on, Ms Bendery doubles down on the stupid.
JB: “Oh, sure, it’s *technically* millions but accuracy in language is totally misleading because millions necessary means *way* more than 2.1MM!”
America: “You’re stupid and arrogant.” https://t.co/rDlYNCnbRp
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) December 30, 2020
Doesn’t matter what you would do. You’re supposed to be a reporter, not a communications consultant.
2.1 million is in fact “millions.”
You could have just said “2.1 million have been vaccinated.” Instead you argued that “millions” had not. You were wrong. https://t.co/2n2Uudldmr
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 30, 2020
Here @jbendery, let me show you:
Real reporter: “Pence said millions had been vaccinated. 2.1 million people have been vaccinated to date.”
You, fake reporter: “Pence said millions had been vaccinated. Not true. 2.1 Million have been vaccinated.”
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 30, 2020
See, Jen? It’s easy if you try!
That was a lot of words to just say that you’re dumb. https://t.co/D0tX6LCKKZ
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) December 30, 2020
She managed to botch mathematics, grammar and English all in a single tweet. It’s a miracle of modern journalism brain.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2020
Modern journalism brain is a helluva drug.
No one escapes the Curse of the Corn Cobhttps://t.co/39GU5qYZ0u
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 30, 2020
Especially journalists. So they might as well lean into it, huh?
Listen. Of course it’s a lot of fun to dunk on this. But there is a real point buried here about our political moment: this is one thing that happens when you tell generations of precocious lefties that words can mean whatever they want them to mean. https://t.co/pNRrZqLNHx
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) December 30, 2020
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Update:
Oh our Lord:
Oh my lord has this tweet taken off. Allow me to clarify.
Pence was not wrong to say 2.1M ppl = millions. I shouldn’t have said “not true.” That’s my bad.
I should have said “overstatement.” The millions he’s talking about is barely over 2M. Hence the link to CDC data.
Fin.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) December 30, 2020
She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Amazing https://t.co/zcPcjRvKeL
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) December 30, 2020
Yeah just take the L. You can’t backtrack this one.
— Mike Hock Phd of stuff (@mikehockDM) December 30, 2020
But we look forward to seeing her continue to try!
I have never seen someone work so hard to prove they are a complete idiot.https://t.co/BNcm9FCbFQ
— Scutt El Butt (@richardcranium6) December 30, 2020
Fin.
