Posted on 11/14/2019 4:50:29 AM PST by MarvinStinson
ABC chief political analyst Matthew Dowd on Wednesday tweeted, then deleted an attack at Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) after she questioned witnesses during the House impeachment hearing.
"Elise stefanik is a perfect example of why just electing someone because they are a woman or a millennial doesn't necessarily get you the leaders we need," Dowd wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
Dowd's attack came minutes after Stefanik pointed out during a House Intelligence Committee hearing that although President Donald Trump threatened to remove aid from Ukraine, and asked Ukrainian officials to investigate the Biden family, neither of these things ever occurred.
Stefanik responded to the tweet, saying that she does not measure her "self-worth or professional work based on tweets from self-important @MSNBC commentators," and asking of Dowd, "Who is he again?"
Thx @RepMarkMeadows ! It’s a good thing I wasn’t raised to measure my self-worth or professional work based on tweets from self-important @MSNBC commentators like Dowd (who is he again?)! I earn support from #NY21 voters bc of my focus on keeping my promises & delivering #Results
Mark Meadows
Elise did a great job laying out the facts. And, not least of all, this comment is reprehensible.
After much criticism, Dowd tweeted an apology to Stefanik, claiming that his first tweet had been "misinterpreted."
Matthew Dowd
Hey @EliseStefanik I just want to apologize for a tweet that is being misinterpreted. I didn’t mean to suggest you were elected only because you were a woman or a millennial. I deleted the tweet.
Dowd added that he will be "more careful in how I phrase my thoughts. Lesson learned."
Stefanik was also attacked earlier in the day by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, who wrote on Twitter that she is "drinking the same loony tune juice with her breakfast" as former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
"I am flattered that you are comparing me to NikkiHaley!" Stefanik wrote. "HUGE compliment! Instead of ever standing in front of voters as a candidate or putting your name on the ballot, you just keep attacking @gop women who have. Sad. Get outside of the @MSNBC bubble!"
Or AOC.
Self-righteous, under-educated, ideologues...............IOW, DEMOCRATS.......................
And pompous.....................
Going to have to remove that RINO, McCarthy, first.
Having reread that story, it occurred to me that she got a really nice shot in at Dowd when she referred to him working for PSMNBC and NOT being the muckity muck he is at ABC news. So VERY well played on her part!
I had not been aware of her previously. She is a real FIRECRACKER!
Poised, unflappable, and intelligent. Rising star? I’d say definitely YES!
Wondering how often John McCain saw that same look.....
“Elise stefanik is a perfect example of why just electing someone because they are a woman or a millennial doesn’t necessarily get you the leaders we need,” Dowd wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
In DOWD’s NON APOLOGY he says his tweet was misrepresented.
Matthew Dowd is a certifiable LIAR.
Check out this video. (guys) Rep. Elise Stefanik Interview 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowR1SjaXaI
I believe that we will be hearing her name a lot more in the coming future.
Bravo, Rep. Elise Stefanik!
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is elise the congresscritter that did such a masterful job questioning one of the russia russia russia witnesses? comeoy mccabe stzrok???
he and Schmidt were running the GOP in the early 2000’s... no wonder we find the GOP hierarchy rudderless 10 years later
Doesn’t she wear those “smart Glasses” nowadays like that Harf Gal does?
I know SE Cupp wears them. Haven’t seen her since she crossed over to the dark side. I preferred her being a cute but mindless Libertarian back in the day.
All of the MSM have become Keith Olbermann.
thanx a lot marvin.
she really shined in that interview w/ comey.
yup. stefanik was brillian in her questioning of comey.
so glad you dug this up for us to see again.
also interesting how focused admiral rogers is to every word comey is saying.
Maureen got a sex change operation ?
One of Zero’s campaign operatives in the McQueeg “campaign.” (along with McQueeg himself)
Easier to sabotage the GOP from within as a Demonrat.
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