What's (finally) not wrong with this picture? Credit: Screenshot

What’s (finally) not wrong with this picture? Credit: Screenshot

This weekend CNN tweeted about the Clooney Foundation for Justice paying for 3,000 refugee kids to go to school. Amal Clooney, a Lebanese-British international human rights lawyer, and her husband, actor George Clooney, will fund seven existing public schools in Lebanon so the schools can accept more refugee children. Great story, and it has all the feels, but it's the way CNN tweeted about this act that made Twitter explode.


Now, the Clooneys co-founded the foundation, but clearly the international human rights lawyer is able to play a more active role in the foundation than her husband, which doesn't mean he cares less — only that, if we had to guess, this particular project may be the Lebanese international human rights lawyer's baby. It didn't take long for Twitter to applaud CNN, as it did with this masterful tweet, the first of many such sentiments:




Which is exactly how the women half of power couples get discussed in many newsmedia outlets, although, admittedly, that tide is turning. Of course, not everyone's evolving at the same speed:


It's really nice of people like this to give Twitter something to do…


And not everyone swooned at the nuances of equality. Twitter, being Twitter, took a tangent, brightly flaming with whollly misguided righteous indignation:


And like this:


Oddly, #HelpAmeriasKids [sic] failed to trend.


However, Twitter users — armed with facts — pounced.



Here's the entire tweet, embedded for your reading pleasure. Share and enjoy.


Cathy Salustri is the arts & entertainment editor for CL Tampa. You can contact her here.

This article appears in Aug 3-10, 2017.

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...