An advisory piece published on Saturday in The New York Times that wrongly claimed that it is “36 years since a man and woman walked together [in a presidential election] on a Democratic Party ticket “was immediately panned on Twitter, prompting The Times to delete his tweet and correct the column.
The article, written by Opinion Columnist Maureen Dowd, is titled “No Wrist Corsages, Please” and asks the question, “Has America grown since 1984, or will the knives still be out for [Joe] Bid his running mate? “
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“It’s hard to notice, but it’s been 36 years since a man and a woman walked together on a Democratic Party ticket. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite phrase, ‘Gimme a break!'” She wrote.
The piece was also promoted on the NEW Opinion Twitter account, quoted by Dowd.
However, many pointed out that Democratic Senator Tim Kaine was elected running mate of Hillary Clinton just four years ago.
“How does an error get this important past an editor?” journalist Yashar Ali asked.
“The NYT may have just deleted this moving tweet, but they will really have to delete the entire article,” suggested National Republican Senate adviser Matt Whitlock.
“Maybe one day an African-American will also be the headliner on a Democratic Party ticket, @maureendowd @nytimes,” quipped Daily Wire employee Harry Khachatrian.
The 2016 former Secretary of State and presidential candidate took to Twitter to respond to the nomination.
“It’s @timkaine and I had a whole life of shared hallucinations four years ago when Maureen had too much pot brownie before she wrote her column again, ‘Clinton wrote.
Shortly after 10 a.m. ET – about 40 minutes after it was published – the NYT Opinion Twitter account deleted her tweet.
Nearly 20 minutes later, they posted the same article with a newly revised title.
“It’s hard to notice, but it’s 36 years ago that a man chose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him,” he writes. @MaureenDowd. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite phrase, ‘Gimme a while!’ ‘, Was reading the second tweet.
In a thread, NYT Opinion added a correction note.
An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that it was 36 years ago that a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket. It is so long ago that a man chose a woman to run as his “Vice President. We have deleted a tweet that repeats the mistake,” they said.
That correction itself was also ridiculed on social media for saying it has been 36 years “since a man chose a woman to run for vice president,” ignoring the selection of Sen. John McCain of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on the 2008 Republican ticket.
In the article itself, Dowd writes of a ‘feminist fair’ prior to the announcement of the winner of ‘Veepstakes’ by former Vice President Biden.
Dowd listened back to the 1984 presidential race – though, ultimately, claimed by Republican official Ronald Reagan – in which Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale had chosen Queens, NY Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his partner.
September 18, 1984: Ferraro holds a document claiming that President Ronald Reagan has failed to support a single arms control agreement held by six former US presidents. Ferraro, speaking to the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Advocates Department, argued that Reagan’s policies lead to a ‘weapons control gridlock’ that does not reduce the risk of nuclear war (AP).
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“Ferraro ran the same tight edge that Hillary Clinton stepped on when she asked herself if she should roll into that debate and tell the creeping Donald Trump to scramble,” Dowd said, noting that after Reagan’s victory the Democrats were turned off by “feminized” tickets and that Ferraro had posted a memoir in 1985 about how sympathetic Mondale’s own aides were to her.
“We do not know who Biden will choose, but we do know what kind of hell she will maintain in the hands of Team Trump,” she penned.
But, Dowd says the ‘bright side’ of sexism lies in the power of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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On Friday, Senate Minority Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., wanted to call Pelosi a “lioness,” while referring to her seemingly failed negotiations with Republicans over an enormously important bill for economic relief.
He checked after reporting first with Pelosi to see if she would rather be called a lion instead.
“The Speaker opted for lioness,” Dowd concluded.
