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Elle Mag apologizes for baiting readers to register to vote with fake Kim Kardashian, Kanye breakup story

October 21, 2018 | | Print Article

The left-wing women’s magazine Elle has been forced to apologize for unashamedly and unethically using a fabricated story to lure its audience into registering to vote.

Last week the magazine posted a false tweet announcing to its 6.8 million followers that rapper Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, were splitting up. Elle linked the tweet to a page on its website that redirected users to “When We All Vote,” a campaign to register liberals to vote.

After massive across-the-board backlash from liberals, conservatives and everybody in-between, Elle finally issued a brief, two-sentence apology, though it initially refrained from deleting its original tweet.

“We made a bad joke. Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry,” the magazine wrote Thursday, impressing almost nobody, as evidenced by the replies:

The good news is that Elle has since deleted its original tweet. The bad news is that criticism continues to pour in from everybody, including comedian Michael Loftus. Except he didn’t limit to criticism to Elle. He aimed it at the entire Democrat Party.

“It comes from the Democrat Party, the party of bait and switch. … It’s a classic Democrat scheme. It probably cost a lot of money and then came across as a bad idea, and everybody has a bad taste in their mouth. It’s like every Democrat policy,” he said Saturday on “Fox & Friends.”

“Everyone on the left thinks that if they just wrap themselves in ‘oh, just register to vote,’ all is forgiven. No. A bad is is still a bad idea. They should really stick to fashion advice and horoscopes and dating tips. Like, stay out of politics!”

Listen:

Most conservatives would probably agree with his assessment. One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary culture is how everybody with a voice feels compelled to opine on political events and facts, no matter how uninformed they happen to be.

Parkland survivor David Hog and Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano are perfect examples of this. Both routinely get the facts wrong — and sometimes make things up — but who have nonetheless been branded experts by non-political left-wing magazines just like Elle.

It’s no wonder so many Americans, including Loftus, wish these magazines would just stick to what they know best — fashion, makeup and “thigh-high boots“:

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