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'She persisted': Elise Stefanik is a perfect case-study in media double standards

By Becket Adams
Published November 18, 2019 2:59pm ET
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'She persisted': Elise Stefanik is a perfect case-study in media double standards
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., questions former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

If it were not for double standards, the American news media would have no standards at all.

Members of the press were aghast this weekend following an impeachment hearing stunt by Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York. But in 2017, the same people had been positively thrilled when Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts pulled essentially the same stunt on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

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