The Los Angeles Times is under fire for a pair of misleading tweets about Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, who had an egg thrown at him by a person in a gorilla mask while walking in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Woman in LA Times photo of her and Elder responds with tweetnamed Soledad Ursua, according to its website. Ursua could not immediately be reached for comment.
The L.A. Times changed the image after significant backlash. The tweet that once showed an image of Elder appearing to touch a female now features an image of Elder walking away from his attacker. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Elder told Fox News in a phone interview that the racist phrases were screamed at him during the attack and if he were a Democrat, the attack would be garnering much more press attention.
"There’s a double standard here. There was an article in the front page of The New York Times the other day, all negative about me, not mentioning the fact that I’m Black, not mentioning that I’d be the first Black governor of California," he said. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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