Tommy Christopher Investigates: Is Wesley Lowery A Lying ‘Snowflake?’

The Daily Caller reaped a social media shitstorm Monday when they launched an “investigation” into Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery’s blackness, or lack thereof. The post was entitled “TheDC Investigates: Is WaPo’s Wesley Lowery Black?” It examined Lowery’s claim of blackness, versus a contradictory data point from an October traffic stop in Maryland. While Lowery implied that he was black in criticizing Politico’s lack of diversity, the police report from Lowery’s traffic stop told a different story:

The police report lists Lowery’s physical vitals — his height (5’9″) and weight (145 pounds) along with other standard information that included race. As you can see below, it reads: White, Caucasian, Asiatic Indian, and Arab.

DC reporter Betsy Rothstein (full disclosure: a longtime frenemy of this reporter) fended off accusations of “racism” on Twitter:

I love this. So now no one is even supposed to even ask questions about race involving a reporter who covers it.

— Betsy Rothstein (@betsyscribeindc) December 1, 2014

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.