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Ex-WH Adviser Makes Ludicrous Claim About Obama, Instantly Gets Trampled In A Big Way
As you may know, for the first time in close to 40 years, horse racing has a Triple Crown winner. American Pharoah became the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes. Following Saturday’s thrilling third leg in the thoroughbred competition, the headline on Yahoo! News read: “Triple Crown winner burned up last quarter mile in Belmont.”
Also following the Saturday race, a former White House adviser was burned up on Twitter — trampled by a veritable stampede of comments in response to a tweet claiming that, somehow, President Obama could take credit for American Pharoah’s phenomenal performances.
Maybe the once-upon-a-time senior adviser to Obama was trying to be funny or to possibly provide some offbeat means of getting his name back in the news. Whatever the case, the tweet from the long-time aide to Obama in various communications roles, Dan Pfeiffer, certainly called into question his communications skills, considering the response from other Twitter users.
Here’s the original tweet from the former White House hotshot and current CNN contributor that charged out of the gate shortly after American Pharoah charged across the finish line at Belmont:
And here’s a small sampling of the snark that erupted on the social media platform after Pfeiffer’s rather bizarre claim invoking the memory of a Democrat president of the past whose reputation with the American public languishes near the bottom of the opinion heap:
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/ex-wh-adviser-makes-ludicrous-claim-about-obama-instantly-gets-trampled-in-a-big-way/
