Environmental Protection Agency primary andformer vigor lobbyistAndrew Wheeler — who is pretty much ex - EPA chief Scott Pruitt minus the latter’smost obviously corrupttendencies — isn’t the most recognise social media drug user . In fact , judging byTwitter and Facebook discoverieson Tuesday by the Huffington Post , Wheeler has a account of mesh with conspiracy theory and antiblack posts on his personal accounts .
In world-wide , it ’s the kind of affair that is more or less bromide among elected and appointed Republican officials these days . Amid the findings by the Huffington Post were that Wheeler “ liked ” a racist image aim to show Barack and Michelle Obama staring at a banana and that he retweeted Jack Posobiec , the ill - tempered goon well be intimate for crashing a Donald Trump - themedperformance of Julius Caesarandrelentlessly promotingthe Pizzagate conspiracy theory . ( That ’s the one that proposes Democratic Party official are involved in everything fromchild sex slaveryto ritual human sacrifice , for the record . )
Here ’s the doctor picture of the Obamas that Wheeler liked on Facebook , courtesy of a page calledMia ma è vergine(Italian for “ My momma is a virgin ” ):
And here ’s Wheeler retweeting Posobiec :
bicycler also like tweets from Dinesh D’Souza ( a dreadful , butno longer all that fringeright - wing filmmaker ) and Paul Joseph Watson ( who runs the dead fringe Infowars - associated Prison Planet site ) recently , according to HuffPo . This is the Watson tweet in interrogative :
James Woods was locked out for sharing a satirical meme because it could " impact an election " .
Any information could " touch an election " .
Are we now to take it we can not even discuss political science ?
And will this be equally enforce against collectivist ?
Do n’t hold your breather .
— Paul Joseph Watson ( @PrisonPlanet)September 22 , 2018
Again , this stuff is pretty much de rigueur among the current crop of Republican officials staffing the Trump administration , so it is not exactly probable to have much of an essence on Wheeler ’s tenure at the EPA . ( Pruitt himself was only oust after his numerous honorable dirt finally negociate to muster enough negative attention from the White House to overshadow his track recordundermining environmental insurance policy . ) Other conservatives are , at best , likely to translate the abnegation that Pruitt gave HuffPo and say “ false news ” or “ what ’s the big deal ? ” :
“ Over the years , I have been a prolific social medium user and care and inadvertently liked countless societal sensitive posts , ” Wheeler sound out . “ Specifically , I do not call up the post depicting President Obama and the First Lady . As for some of the other billet , I agreed with the depicted object and was unaware of the sources . ”
( HuffPo post the material after they were lean off by American Bridge 21st Century , a popular political action commission , which probably wo n’t raise the outcome ’s priority in the eyes of Wheeler ’s fellow Republicans . )
In any shell , this is just another monitor that while you probably should n’t post stupid diddlyshit online , it ’s always serious when those in power freely show the rest of ustheir unfit judgment . It ’s not like Wheeler is busy with aclimate crisisor something .
[ Huffington Post ]
Social mediaTechnology
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , science , and refinement word in your inbox daily .
News from the future tense , delivered to your present .
You May Also Like
