Politico Reporter Calls Trump Supporters ‘Garbage People’ with Bad Teeth

This week, a Politico reporter named Marc Caputo decided to let America know what he really thought about supporters of Donald Trump.  After seeing how the crowd reacted negatively to the media at one event, he decided to call these Trump supporters “toothless “garbage people.”

Specifically, he wrote:

“If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”  Then, after receiving criticism, he added, “Oh, no! I made fun of garbage people jeering at another person as they falsely accused him of lying and flipped him off. Someone fetch a fainting couch.”

Wow.  That’s not very tolerant, is it/

Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring said that Caputo’s Twitter criticism fell beneath the company’s standards.  I should hope so.  He also said editors “have addressed the issue” with the writer.

The Washington Post says that Caputo apologized for his Twitter rant:

The tweets from Marc Caputo, who covers Florida politics for Politico, fueled criticism from conservatives, who said his mockery of the president’s supporters validates their hatred of the media. The following day, Caputo deleted his tweets and apologized, saying he should not have stirred further anger and division in an already deeply polarized political landscape.

“Hate begets hate,” Caputo tweeted Wednesday, clarifying that he was not mocking a broad swath of Trump supporters but only those screaming at the media at the Tampa rally. “But the fault is mine for causing confusion and feeding anger. In the age of social media, where divisiveness serves no decent purpose, these flippant comments on my part only made things worse and contributed to a cycle of rage that I should not have inflamed further. So I’m sorry.”

Well, that’s actually not a bad apology.  Kudos to the reporter for realizing his mistake, even if it was after his employer reprimanded him.

We’ve got to do better, America.

Hat Tip: Washington Post