Taylor Lorenz - immuno compromised - sometimes

 

On October 3, Lorenz, a technology columnist with the Washington Post, criticized a tweet by a physician who had a picture of him and another person neither of whom was masked. Her comment in the tweet was,

As someone who’s severely immunocompromised this is absolutely horrifying and disappointing to see. Stark reminder of all the medical professionals who don’t care at all about keeping vulnerable patients safe from a raging deadly and disabling pandemic

 

On October 5, Lorenz tweeted the image on the left. It shows her without a mask within a short distance from another celebrity and the lower class security guy wearing a mask.

This is about as straight forward a case of hypocrisy as I can remember.  The only defense for Lorenz I can think of is that in the Oct 3 case, the person criticized is just a bit closer to another not masked person than Lorenz is in the Oct 5 case.

Oct 3 Tweet by Lorenz

https://twitter.com/taylorlorenz/status/1577129342915575812

Oct 5 Tweet by Lorenz

 https://twitter.com/imaginary_echo/status/1577651965886185472

Oct 1 Tweet criticized by Lorenz

 https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FDGlaucomflecken%2Fstatus%2F1576303600283750402&widget=Tweet

Democrat Groups Spend $ Millions to Support MAGA Republicans; Biden Denounces MAGA Republicans

 

The first image shows a political event supporting Darren Bailey. He won the Republican nomination to run for Governor of Illinois this year. He is by all accounts the most MAGA Republican who was running for the nomination.

Two Democratic Groups spent over $30 million supporting Bailey during the campaign for the Republican nomination.

 

Elsewhere in the US, many more millions of dollars have been spent by Democratic groups to support the most MAGA Republicans running for various nominations.

 

Back a few weeks ago, President Joe Biden said,

 "... the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic..."

`The second image is a still from that event.

This may sound like hypocrisy and many Democrats aren't very happy at the spending on MAGA candidates.  However, since Biden does not control the Democrats who are spending the money (and in fact he may not even be aware of this spending), it doesn't count as hypocrisy.

The Washington Post's arithmetic on campaign financing of this kind is

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/12/democrats-interfere-republican-primaries/

 

The quote by Biden on MAGA Republicans is from a Rolling Stone article:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-speech-maga-republicans-donald-trump-philadelphia-1234585311/