Lincoln Project video editor is out over crude tweets about female anatomy

Washington Post ^ | July 14, 2020 | Amanda Becker

[Stravinsky]

A video editor who shaped the buzzy Lincoln Project ads needling President Trump is no longer affiliated with the Republican organization over a series of past tweets in which he used offensive slang for female anatomy to insult political rivals.

Ben Howe, who came of age politically making anti-Obama ads during the rise of the tea party, did not publicly tout his work for the super PAC formed by a group of high-level Republican operatives who have broken ranks with the party over Trump’s presidency until a recent interview with Vanity Fair. He was described in the article as “the creative mind, video editor, and, he said, sometimes narrating voice on many of the group’s ads.”

The 19th, a nonprofit news outlet, had emailed the Lincoln Project about a series of Twitter posts made by Howe in the years after Trump’s election that deployed female anatomy as an insult, calling rivals a “vagina” or “twat,” or in some instances using a more profane term.

“Based on these unacceptable and offensive posts, and those that came to light last week, Ben Howe is no longer affiliated with the Lincoln Project, effective immediately,” Keith Edwards, the group’s spokesman, said in a statement.

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Howe previously worked on an anti-Trump documentary film with the Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and joined the group when it was founded late last year.

“I want to be a feminist but every time I call someone a [c---] I get yelled at,” Howe wrote in a June 2018 tweet.

[Paladin2]

I can totally identify with labeling Rick Wilson as being various things.

[Morpheus2009]

He should have watched his words.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>Ben Howe is no longer affiliated with the Lincoln Project, effective immediately,” Keith Edwards, the group’s spokesman, said in a statement<<<

Well, Lincoln isn’t affiliated with the Lincoln Project either.

[DoodleDawg]

Social media claims another one.

[Tax-chick]

You can’t make this stuff up!

[pepsi_junkie]

I think a noble cause would be to dig through the histories of any of these Quislings in the 'Lincoln Project' and identify anything at all that the lefties would be upset about. And then pose as a lefty on Twitter and announce that a nutty republican just did X, please everyone cancel them immediately!

I am against cancel culture. I'll make an exception in their case. They are trying to destroy the republic and preserve their uniparty politburo.

[Zathras]

The guy sounds like another one of these Libertarians with a serious drug problem.

[Savage Rider]

The Lincoln Project is not a “Republican Organization.” If you do not support the Republican National Leader, you cannot be a Republican Organization. You can be a “former” or “temporarily lapsed” organization if you are too lazy to make your own party label. How about the NeoCon Party, Globalist Party, China-Is-Our-Friend Party? Get creative and tell us what you stand FOR not what you are AGAINST.

[null and void]

I guess it wasn’t a wise crack...

[ilgipper]

I had no idea Ben Howe was still on the Never Trumper train. He was stupid during 2016 and I tuned him out. Guys like him mostly fake around at least 50% when it was obvious the conservative movement was advancing.

[null and void]

I am against cancel culture. I'll make an exception in their case. They are trying to destroy the republic and preserve their uniparty politburo.

Rules for Radicals:
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[chiller]

I heard on Kilmeade yesterday about a Michael Goodwin NY Post column castrating the NYT’s early ownership (the Ochs family) who were virulent racists.

I believe current ownership (Sulzbergers) are related via marriage.

I’ve not found the article yet, but expect it to surface soon as it is hypocrisy to the 10th degree, considering their recent output of trash and cancel culturing.

[lee martell]

Sounds like he got careless and too sure that he was indispensable. They will probably still use him on a freelance (off da books) way.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is Ben Howe the guy Tucker Carlson was talking about last night? I missed the start of that segment, but it sounded like some former colleague of his had fallen victim to cancel culture.

[TruthWillWin]

Is Ben Howe the guy Tucker Carlson was talking about last night?

No, the Tucker staffer resigning was Blake Neff.

[Steve_Seattle]

"No, the Tucker staffer resigning was Blake Neff."

Thanks for the correction/clarification.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills update.

[SunkenCiv]

From the FRchives:

• Dems cared about sexual politics a few months ago. Now they want Fairfax's accuser to shut up
  • Virginia looks to Black Caucus for cues in political turmoil
• How Democrats Protected a Democrat Who Beat and Murdered His Wife [Judge Lance Mason of Ohio]
• Federal judge orders female genital mutilation charges dropped in Detroit
• Why Eastern Michigan University Canceled the Vagina Monologues
• Dem pollster: Women are less likely to support abortion rights than men
• CBS/Refinery29 Poll Reveals Women Reject Abortion, Feminism, the Media
• How Democrats Suppressed the #MeToo Movement in the Party [4/29/2018]

  Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.

• #MeToo CA Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia Accused of Sexual Harassment [2018]
• The Anti-Women Democratic Party [2018]
• Here's Why the Democrats and their Media Propaganda Complex Are Panicked [2018]
• Schneiderman Victims Warned Not to Speak Out for Good of Dem Party [5/08/2018]
• U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's ex-girlfriend posts medical record alleging abuse [09/20/2018]
• Ellison accuser: Dems 'smeared, threatened, isolated' me [09/23/2018]
• Keith Ellison Accuser, Karen Monahan, Says Democratic Party Doesn’t Believe Her(!?) [09/17/2018]

  Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."

• Where is Bill Clinton's #MeToo reckoning?
• Hillary Clinton protected '08 campaign adviser accused of sexual harassment
• Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008
• Let's see if the Left will punish Bernie Sanders for his '72 rape essay
• Barack Obama Official Twitter Account Follows Crude Sexist Anti-Sarah Palin Account

[dynoman]

Rick Wilson is a pervert too.