The accusation was made in response to Romney supporter @Jayne720’s tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n
.@joanwalsh<\/a> You’re on Twitter. Surely you’ve seen the hundreds of tweets saying “If Romney wins, I’m going to riot” ?<\/p>\n — Jayne(@Jayne720) November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Twitchy has reported on riot threats (most recently here<\/a>). But @Jayne720 didn’t say anything about race, and neither did we.<\/p>\n No one has questioned the accuracy of our reporting. No one has come forward with similar tweets posted by Romney supporters.<\/p>\n Our finding — nearly two dozen tweets posted on a single day threatening to riot if Barack Obama loses to Mitt Romney on Tuesday — was newsworthy and timely. We are honored that The Drudge Report chose to link to it.<\/p>\n In our post, we included every riot tweet we could find that was posted on Friday, November 2nd. We did not exclude any tweets based on race.<\/p>\n It sounds to us like Walsh is suggesting that we should ignore riot threats (and perhaps assassination threats<\/a>, too?) if they come primarily from “anonymous” African Americans. In other words, we should hold non-famous black people to a lower standard than we expect from famous people or white people.<\/p>\n Who, then, is the racist?<\/p>\n Note also what Walsh chooses to be upset about — not the fact that dozens of people are threatening to riot if Obama loses, but the fact that Twitchy reported the threats.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> Walsh now appears to endorse the absurd argument that the tweeters featured in our post were part of a Romney “false flag” operation designed to make Obama supporters look bad.<\/p>\n\n\n FTW @maureenwct<\/a><\/p>\n — Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) November 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/11\/04\/joan-walsh-accuses-twitchy-of-ugly-racial-paranoia-for-reporting-riot-threats\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/joanwalsh\/status\/265261080576663552 The accusation was made in response to Romney supporter @Jayne720’s tweet: .@joanwalsh You’re on Twitter. Surely you’ve seen the hundreds of tweets saying “If Romney wins, I’m going to riot” ? — Jayne(@Jayne720) November 4, 2012 Twitchy has reported on riot threats (most recently here). But @Jayne720 didn’t say anything about race, and neither … Continue reading Joan Walsh accuses Twitchy of ‘ugly racial paranoia’ for reporting riot threats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14346856447141-joan-walsh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}