New Hampshire Columnist Takes Shannon Watts To Task Over Pearl Flap

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Shannon Watts is making a career out of beclowning herself.

Last week, she was outraged that several male Republican lawmakers were wearing pearls. The nerve!

She automatically jumped that this was a calculated insult against the women who were testifying, that they were accusing them of pearl-clutching behavior…only for it to come out that a pro-gun women’s group had given them the pearls in the first place.

Now, an op-ed in the state is taking Watts to task over it.

From CNN to the Washington Post, national news exploded after Shannon Watts, founder of Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun control activist organization, tweeted a photo of lawmakers wearing white bead strands during the public testimony with the message, “Male New Hampshire lawmakers on the hearing committee wearing pearls to mock @MomsDemand volunteers and gun safety advocates.” Twitter exploded and thousands retweeted it, commented on it, and traditional media jumped on board.

Apparently, Ms. Watts and others determined the pearls were intended to mimic the idea that the mothers testifying, many of whom had experienced tragic losses to gun violence, were “clutching their pearls” – meaning dramatically offended or faux appalled. The …Read the Rest

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