WaPo Reporter Slammed For Tweet Invoking Biden’s ‘Dying’ Agenda While He’s at Cemetery Where Family is Buried
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Washington Post White House reporter Annie Linskey was roundly criticized for a tweet Sunday about President Joe Biden.
The president attended mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington on Sunday. The parish cemetery is where the president’s son Beau is buried, as well as Biden’s first wife Neilia and infant daughter Naomi.
Neilia and Naomi Biden were killed in a car crash in 1972. Neilia was 30 years old and Naomi was 1 year old.
As the president walked outside, Linskey posted a photo and tweeted, “Biden goes to church and walks through a graveyard in Wilmington as his legislative agenda is dying in Washington.”
Linskey was immediately lambasted for the insensitive tweet.
Walks through a graveyard where his son is buried…
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 3, 2021
How dare he visit the grave of a loved one! What a monster! And DURING OCTOBER!
— Brett “Unions 2021” Banditelli (@banditelli) October 3, 2021
deleted, but the List comes for all, @AnnieLinskey.
✍?✍?✍? pic.twitter.com/PPogcnIMhh
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) October 3, 2021
Could do this every goddamn day pic.twitter.com/d7scvI7Ptu
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) October 3, 2021
Holy cow. This is where Beau is buried. What’s wrong with these people? https://t.co/MaJhUKj4qe
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) October 3, 2021
This is the graveyard where the man’s son is buried. https://t.co/x12kNrH04l
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) October 3, 2021
I don’t think this was a Good Post but I also wish I could highlight something critically without seeing curses and other abusive language directed at the poster. Reporters aren’t the only ones responsible for the tone of our discourse!
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) October 3, 2021
Linskey took down the tweet and followed up by saying, “I deleted an earlier tweet, which was not intended to cause offense.”
I deleted an earlier tweet, which was not intended to cause offense.
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) October 3, 2021
UPDATE: Linskey followed up later apologizing for the “badly conceived and insensitive tweet.”
It was a badly conceived and insensitive tweet. I’m sorry.
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) October 3, 2021
