'Uh, what?' Lindsey Graham tribute inadvertently reveals 'bizarre' fetish
Parker recalled that Graham asked her to buy new clothes, perhaps a dress, and shower before shadowing him.
SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYRaw Story is an established digital news outlet with an identified author, though it has a partisan reputation. This brief report relies mainly on social-media posts and a journalist’s recollection rather than independent corroboration.
- Source type — An established digital news outlet, but one with a partisan reputation.
- Editorial standards — The report attributes the recollection and reactions, but provides limited independent verification.
- Author attribution — The article names its author.
The article identifies Parker as the source of the anecdote and quotes several named journalists reacting to it. It offers little independent corroboration or broader context, and does not include a response from Graham.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article includes Parker’s account and several reactions, but the reactions are predominantly critical and there is no response or additional context about Graham’s request.
- Source diversity — Multiple journalists react, but their views are largely critical and do not provide an alternative account.
- Counterarguments presented — No response from Graham or a countervailing perspective is presented.
- Loaded language — The headline and framing use sensational language.
The report’s headline and language frame Graham’s conduct as bizarre and emphasize critical reactions. It offers little countervailing context, giving the presentation a left-leaning critical framing of the Republican senator.
- Headline — The headline uses sensational and judgmental language to frame Graham’s alleged conduct.
- Language tone — The report foregrounds ridicule and criticism rather than neutral description.
- Source selection — The quoted reactions are critical; no countervailing view is included.
Journalist Ashley Parker’s remembrance of Sen. Lindsey Graham drew criticism after she recalled that he told her to buy new clothes, perhaps a dress, and shower before she shadowed him in 2015. Several journalists questioned both the request and Parker’s favorable framing of the memory.
Ashley Parker said she was covering Graham’s response to the 2015 Mother Emanuel church shooting when she asked to shadow him. Parker recalled that Graham told her she was “sticky” and “icky” and should buy new clothes, “maybe a dress,” and take a shower; she said she did so and spent the next few days with him.
The story reports that several journalists criticized the anecdote. Nikki McCann Ramírez said she would have reported a politician’s demand to wear a skirt to her editor, while Glenn Greenwald, Evan Hill and David Sirota also questioned the story or Parker’s framing of it.
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