{"id":1674647,"date":"2022-10-05T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674647"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:07:27","slug":"taylor-lorenz-slams-wapo-colleague-peddles-anti-vax-conspiracy-admits-to-multiple-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-lorenz-slams-wapo-colleague-peddles-anti-vax-conspiracy-admits-to-multiple-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Lorenz Slams WaPo Colleague, Peddles Anti-Vax Conspiracy, Admits to Multiple Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaylor-lorenz-slams-wapo-colleague-peddles-anti-vax-conspiracy-admits-to-multiple-crimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democracy dies in petty drama: WaPo journalists keep attacking each other on social media<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 5, 2022 5:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Taylor Lorenz is having an eventful week.<\/p>\n<p>What happened: On Tuesday, the TikTok reporter challenged the scientific efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine in a Twitter post lashing out at a <em>Washington Post<\/em> colleague. On Wednesday, she confessed to committing a series of crimes in the Washington, D.C., metro area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How it started<\/strong>: Helaine Olen, an opinion columnist at the <em>Post<\/em>, tweeted in response to a <em>New York Post<\/em> article about deranged geezer Howard Stern eating at a restaurant for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;At some point we&#8217;re going to need to begin a conversation about the people still too afraid to leave their homes because of COVID,&#8221; Olen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/helaineolen\/status\/1577117167929024512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I personally know of two such cases. This is not a healthy way to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shots fired<\/strong>: Lorenz was outraged. &#8220;What an absurd, insensitive thing to post,&#8221; she fired back. &#8220;Thousands are dying per week, millions are disabled &#038; we have zero effective drugs that prevent infection.&#8221; Lorenz briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1577429136548974592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deleted<\/a> the tweet before reposting it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact check<\/strong>: &#8220;We have zero effective drugs that prevent infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is anti-science disinformation. It is dangerous and should be flagged as such.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Experts agree: The COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective drug that helps prevent infection and minimize symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crime spree<\/strong>: In response to a Twitter post about fare evaders on the D.C. Metro, Lorenz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1577699042003255296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> that she &#8220;never paid for a single ride&#8221; while interning in the nation&#8217;s capital years ago. This would have been well before 2018, when D.C. Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2018\/12\/05\/dc-council-decriminalizes-metro-fare-evasion-giving-its-final-approval-contested-measure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> to decriminalize Metro fare evasion, which means that Lorenz committed multiple criminal acts punishable by up to 10 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why didn&#8217;t she get caught? <\/strong>Answer: White privilege.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to one <a href=\"https:\/\/ggwash.org\/view\/69171\/a-new-report-highlights-the-stark-racial-disparities-in-metro-fare-enforcem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, black people accounted for more than 90 percent of the citations and summonses issued for fare evasion between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture<\/strong>: The <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0has a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the TikTok reporter challenged the scientific efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine in a Twitter post lashing out at a Washington Post colleague. On Wednesday, she confessed to committing a series of crimes in the Washington, D.C., metro area.<br \/>\nThe post Taylor Lorenz Slams WaPo Colleague, Peddles Anti-Vax Conspiracy, Admits to Multiple Crimes appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}