Tweeted and Left? Leftist Movie Star Ducks Out of Tiny March Against White Supremacy
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/melissa-mullins/2017/09/06/tweeted-and-left-leftist-movie-star-ducks-out-tiny-march-against
Hollywood actor and liberal activist Mark Ruffalo tweeted that he would be marching 18 miles with all 23 people from Charlottesville to Washington D.C. to protest white supremacy and call for the removal of President Donald Trump. The only thing is, he dropped out after eight miles, making it seem more like a movie-star photo-op. ...
But the local newspaper, the Culpeper Star Exponent, tattled on the movie star: "Actor Mark Ruffalo showed up Thursday morning in Madison [Virginia] and joined the marchers. Ruffalo, however, abandoned the march after about eight miles. He dropped out at a rest stop at Leon and never made it into Culpeper County."
That's not how the national press reported it. You'd think the actor marched the whole 18-mile route from the publicists at the Los Angeles Times: ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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