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The Washington Post Is Now The Pelosi Family Newsletter

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The "real" reporters at The Washington Post took a break from defending Iran to stand up for...Nancy Pelosi. 

Reporter Felicia Sonmez jumped to the House Speaker's defense after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tweeted out a petition with an "altered" photo of Pelosi. The headline was,  "Rep. Stefanik tweets altered photo of Pelosi in GOP fundraising appeal."


Writes Sonmez:

"Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) tweeted a petition and fundraising appeal that included what appeared to be an altered photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, drawing a retweet Thursday morning from President Trump.

The tweet marks the second time this week that a House Republican has tweeted a photo that appears to have been manipulated....

The tweet shows a close-up, red-tinted photo of Pelosi, with the lines in the House speaker’s face exaggerated due to the image’s unnaturally high contrast."

Stefanik's tweet was not, however, "fake," it was merely an unflattering illustration of Pelosi edited to send a message.

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