The team over at NBC appears to have taken their ‘Mean Girls’ style disdain for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to new levels — by adding a fake blemish to her face on live television.
The disappearing pimple was first reported on by TMZ, and Rep. Gabbard’s press assistant tweeted a video and thank you note to them for covering it.
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“The Congresswoman from Hawaii was talking foreign policy during the debate — specifically the possibility of America going to war with Iran. Important stuff, no doubt. However, as Gabbard spoke many viewers focused on her chin and what appeared to be a tiny zit — nothing that would require Dr. Pimple Popper or anything, but still … it was there,” TMZ reported. “Then it happened. Seriously, if you haven’t seen it … YOU MUST. Within a matter of seconds the blemish simply vanished … AS Tulsi was talking!!! Remember, this is on a close-up camera, ON live television.”
https://twitter.com/CullenYossarian/status/1144273404427735040
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“Thank you @TMZ for letting @TulsiGabbard’s know @NBCNews was being dishonest by adding a fake blemish to her face. It didn’t matter either because people love her message #NoMoreWars and we aren’t superficial,” Gabbard’s press assistant Cullen Tiernan tweeted along with a video of the disappearing blemish.
DEMS and their live TV editing .. #pimplegate #demsdebate #4k #toofunny pic.twitter.com/KwopcaTiaP
— Smoke N’ Scan (@damonheller) June 27, 2019
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There is no blemish on her chin visible in any photos from the debate.
Despite their cheap, and arguably sexist, tricks, Rep. Gabbard and her anti-war message won the Drudge Debate winner poll by a mile and was the most Google searched candidate in the nation.