Posted on 10/27/2018 3:06:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
(UPDATE at end. Elk apologizes.) Reporter Salena Zito claimed she was verbally attacked by a Guardian reporter, later identified as Mike Elk, who got in her face, called her an anti-Semite while blaming her for the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre on Saturday because of her reporting on President Trump. Elk demanded she leave the scene near Synagogue where the press was gathered, according to Zito. Elk and Zito are both Pittsburgh natives who have achieved a national audience (of disparate reach and reputation) for their reporting.
Zito posted to Twitter a photo of Elk with the caption, In middle of a somber moment at staging area while I was talking to a member of the Jewish community this @guardian reporter started screaming at me that I was an anti-Semite/that I caused shooting because I reports on Trump & to leave and kept screaming in my face to get out
ELK
I grew up in this neighborhood and as a Jew, have long dealt w/ anti-antisemitism in Western PA. It was an emotional time to see Jews from my neighborhood murdered for merely being Jews.
My apologies again if you were offended
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I lived in Shadyside for three years. ZERO anti-semitism in the area. I can’t believe someone else gave Mike Elk a job after his “PTSD” debacle at Polutico.
See my response on another thread for my apology.
One particular group of left wing Jews uses it as a bludgeon yes.
Salena Zito is excellent...2 years ago, she kept warning her media pals that they were getting the whole “Trump” thing wrong...they didn’t wanna hear it....
Remember when reporters use to cover the news instead of being the news?
No way did you deserve that berk’s rant. Keep the faith.
What an odd comment.
Exactly why Gianforte of Montana threw a Guardian smear-meister...a deserved action the reporter, the Guardian and the dems are now trying to drag back into the campaign...with willing help from the Montana media, of course.
Did this Elk jerk not read the shooter’s social media? He hated Trump in part because he felt Trump was too friendly with Jews.
Too bad Zito had to take the brunt of this guy’s ignorant dramatic moment.
And then his jerkface non-apology. Sheesh.
This is the most disposable kind of transference.
I STILL live in the Burgh. I have never seen anti-semitism from anything other than the random a-hole.
2013
"Fight erupts between lefty scribe and other reporters, awesome breakdown ensues"
2016
"Mike Elk Races Against the Clock {To Raise Bail Money for Public Drunkenness & Felony Bribery}"
And you can bet that - writing for the Guardian - he's not a practicing Jew with any connection to a Synagogue, but a Karl Marx Jew.
Covering Trump, who has a Jewish daughter and grandchildren, makes someone an anti-Semite...
But working for Obama, who has a close and long standing relationship with Louis Farrakan doesn't
"Mike Elk - Campaign Staffer For Barack Obama" - YouTube
Elk’s twitter needs a good freeping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:salenazito/index?tab=articles
Stop with the "apologies" being conditional on the person you berated being "offended" by your actions.
Just apologize for your own actions, and ask the berated person to forgive you.
-PJ
The left is insane.
I meant this is the most dispicable kind of transference.
Exactly.
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