What would have happened if this were worn instead?
Posted on 06/18/2020 7:11:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Every year, Tom Toles’s Halloween party draws an eclectic mix — journalists and political types from Washington’s power elite, but also artists and musicians, everyone from retirees to college kids, jammed into small rooms and sprawled across the backyard, dancing and gossiping, checking out the crowd to see who has the most inventive and outrageous costumes.
At the 2018 party at the home of The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist, in addition to several Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, someone dressed as the “Mueller Witch Hunt” and Post columnist Dana Milbank came as just-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, complete with a beer-dispensing device on his head. A guest named Lexie Gruber wore a scary “Beetlejuice” get-up and called herself “dead.”
A middle-aged white woman named Sue Schafer wore a conservative business suit and a name tag that said, “Hello, My Name is Megyn Kelly.” Her face was almost entirely blackened with makeup. Kelly, then an NBC morning show host, had just that week caused a stir by defending the use of blackface by white people: “When I was a kid, that was okay, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.” ...
On Wednesday, after Schafer informed her employer, a government contractor, about the blackface incident and The Post’s forthcoming article, she was fired, she said...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wear dumb costumes, win dumb prizes.
18 Jun: WaPo Cartoon: Tom Toles: Trump tries to have it both ways on China
(INCORPORATES JOHN BOLTON CHINA LIES)
Tom Toles is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Post and writes the Tom Toles blog. His latest book is “The Madhouse Effect,” a book about climate and climate-change denial co-authored with climate scientist Michael Mann.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/18/trump-tries-have-it-both-ways-china/
18 Jun: National Review: Notes on the Purge
By Kevin D. Williamson
The Washington Post has published a 3,000-word exposé, a double byline for two senior staffers, about the fact that a woman nobody’s ever heard of at a Halloween party years ago wore a costume that somebody didn’t like. The woman has, of course, immediately been now fired from her job.
Tom Toles, the liberal Washington Post cartoonist who hosted the party and then lied when asked about it, has not lost his job, as of this writing. It’s nice to be in the family...
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/notes-on-the-purge/
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