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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Ombudsman raps PBS anchor for anti-Netanyahu tweet
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe ombudsman for American public broadcaster PBS has brought the hammer down on anchor Gwen Ifill for a tweet appearing to gleefully put down Netanyahu.
The tweet, sent Wednesday night after a 34th senator signed onto the Iran deal, clinching a veto-sustaining minority for Obama, reads “Take that Bibi.”
The tweet is accompanied by a promotional poster put out by the White House several months ago touting the deal by using Netanyahu’s bomb drawing to show why the agreement will stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Take that, Bibi. https://t.co/V9Gn9vP6xN
— gwen ifill (@gwenifill) September 2, 2015
In a column, Michael Getler says Ifill’s tweet is “inexcusable for an experienced journalist who is the co-anchor of a nightly news program watched by millions of people over the course of any week.”
The tweet, however, has not been taken down as of this writing.
The Times of Israel Community.