Yep. I bet that’s what happened. Plus it’s possible that someone caught it and it propagated to the web version first and the mobile version later. So for a while they were divergent. WaPo saw the mobile version (that’s what it looked like) and CPAC provided a cache to the web version.
But nutty provided a good story, as nutty always does.
It does happen all the time. It only get turned into a “thing” because of the racial baggage and connotations it can evoke when it is a black person. As evidence by your own comment.
CPAC over-reacted because they know “conservatives” have a racial problem. But the photo mixup, I will bet my last dollar, was a 100% benign code screw up which happens all the time when taking boilerplate code from previous pages or emails and copy-pasting them and dropping in new text (and forgetting to change the img src tags) as it saves a lot of time simply recycling older code and swapping out text.
This became a thing because a repeater noticed the photo flub, tweeted about… and CPAC panicked and like a dumb animal, lashed out and made wild accusations.
Here’s the real story.
Shorter CPAC: Ooops. We could get sued if we don’t walk back our lie about the reporter.
Right. “We made a mistake by not reviewing it before it went out.” Should have been a simple fix. No need for the defensive and accusatory responses. Methinks they doth protest too much.
Am I missing something here. Why is this even important. I don’t get it
The original tweet said that it was a screen capture from the “CPAC mobile app,” which is available for both Android and iOS.
They just typed in “Negro Republican.” Who knew there were two of them?
The story is in CPAC’s very defensive response… They know they are vulnerable to the “All black people look alike” mantra and are probably projecting this fear on others.
Ah, gotcha. Then you’re right, if it was their mobile app, why would the Google cache page mean anything at all?
Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp.
…to be followed immediately by “Racist? Some of Your Best Friends are Black!”
Upon completion, participants will be awarded a certificate and one black friend.