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    'We Only Tip Citizens' Story Is Complicated, And Virtually Everyone Got It Dead Wrong

    -The media has raced to declare a waitress the victim of a vile, unprovoked racist attack because she produced a receipt with the message "We only tip citizens." In its haste to make the waitress a martyr for all things social justice, members of the media may have overstepped and libeled innocent people.

    At least, that looks like it could be the case with the massive national outrage over a receipt from Harrisonburg, Va.

    The initial incident seemed straightforward. Sadie Elledge, a native-born Honduran-American, claims she was stiffed on a tip and instead received a receipt reading, in all caps, "WE ONLY TIP CITIZENS" from a couple she served at Jess' Lunch, a diner.

    Elledge's grandfather shared the receipt online, it quickly went viral, and virtually ever outlet that covered it treated Elledge's claims as objectively true. Many outlets also explicitly blamed both members of the couple for the racist message.

    "This couple didn't tip their Latina server. They left a hateful message instead," blared a Washington Post headline, suggesting the message was anti-Hispanic racism.

    "Customers stiff Latina waitress, write 'We only tip citizens," said CNN.

    The story has reaped a small financial dividend for Elledge, who has received cash in the mail from supporters.
    There's obviously more to the story.

    The claim was investigated by Michael Koolidge, a radio host based in Illinois, who tracked down the couple allegedly responsible for the receipt, and made an astonishing discovery: The woman who signed the receipt is herself Puerto Rican, speaks Spanish as a first language, and has an imperfect grasp of English.

    "Me [sic] only, I sign my name, and that's it," the woman, Ada Doriot, told Koolidge in a phone conversation. "I no put nothing in the ticket, and go for the home and take a shower and go to my work. That's it." Doriot said she has been suffering immense distress over the incident, especially because many friends and family members have been seeing her name in Spanish-language media.

    The other possible culprit for the supposed anti-immigrant message is Ada's fiancé, publicly identified only as Tom. While media reporting on the "racist" incident likely conjures up mental images of bigoted whites, Tom is actually a black man. Tom also denied writing the message.

    "I didn't do that, and she didn't do that. And any handwriting analysis would clearly show that I didn't do it, or she didn't do it," Tom said. Tom also claimed that he did, in fact, tip Elledge by leaving three one-dollar bills for her...

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/26/th...it-dead-wrong/

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    Well you don't say...

    And that's all I'll say. At least for now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    -The media has raced to declare a waitress the victim of a vile, unprovoked racist attack because she produced a receipt with the message “We only tip citizens.” In its haste to make the waitress a martyr for all things social justice, members of the media may have overstepped and libeled innocent people.

    At least, that looks like it could be the case with the massive national outrage over a receipt from Harrisonburg, Va.

    The initial incident seemed straightforward. Sadie Elledge, a native-born Honduran-American, claims she was stiffed on a tip and instead received a receipt reading, in all caps, “WE ONLY TIP CITIZENS” from a couple she served at Jess’ Lunch, a diner.

    Elledge’s grandfather shared the receipt online, it quickly went viral, and virtually ever outlet that covered it treated Elledge’s claims as objectively true. Many outlets also explicitly blamed both members of the couple for the racist message.

    “This couple didn’t tip their Latina server. They left a hateful message instead,” blared a Washington Post headline, suggesting the message was anti-Hispanic racism.

    “Customers stiff Latina waitress, write ‘We only tip citizens,” said CNN.

    The story has reaped a small financial dividend for Elledge, who has received cash in the mail from supporters.
    There’s obviously more to the story.

    The claim was investigated by Michael Koolidge, a radio host based in Illinois, who tracked down the couple allegedly responsible for the receipt, and made an astonishing discovery: The woman who signed the receipt is herself Puerto Rican, speaks Spanish as a first language, and has an imperfect grasp of English.

    “Me [sic] only, I sign my name, and that’s it,” the woman, Ada Doriot, told Koolidge in a phone conversation. “I no put nothing in the ticket, and go for the home and take a shower and go to my work. That’s it.” Doriot said she has been suffering immense distress over the incident, especially because many friends and family members have been seeing her name in Spanish-language media.

    The other possible culprit for the supposed anti-immigrant message is Ada’s fiancĂ©, publicly identified only as Tom. While media reporting on the “racist” incident likely conjures up mental images of bigoted whites, Tom is actually a black man. Tom also denied writing the message.

    “I didn’t do that, and she didn’t do that. And any handwriting analysis would clearly show that I didn’t do it, or she didn’t do it,” Tom said. Tom also claimed that he did, in fact, tip Elledge by leaving three one-dollar bills for her...

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/26/th...it-dead-wrong/

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    The supposedly racist couple are Hispanic and Black


    Something very fishy going on

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    I only came back to say this:

    I googled this story and I have not seen any other articles either questioning or disproving what happened.

    But since many of you claim to not trust or believe "liberal media", I guess this is just a matter of he said/she said.

    At least the waitress got blessed Who knows, God may have orchestrated this whole thing in order for her to receive a financial blessing...(she may be a believer--but if not, God may be using this incident to reach her)

    God works in mysterious ways (and if you think what I wrote is ridiculous, I've seen worse caca typed here on the forum over the years

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    At least the waitress got blessed Who knows, God may have orchestrated this whole thing in order for her to receive a financial blessing...(she may be a believer--but if not, God may be using this incident to reach her)
    Apparently they are donating all the money that came in to a Latino resource center, click the top video here:

    http://www.whsv.com/content/news/Loc...391091231.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by FaithfulOne View Post
    I only came back to say this:

    I googled this story and I have not seen any other articles either questioning or disproving what happened.

    But since many of you claim to not trust or believe "liberal media", I guess this is just a matter of he said/she said.

    At least the waitress got blessed Who knows, God may have orchestrated this whole thing in order for her to receive a financial blessing...(she may be a believer--but if not, God may be using this incident to reach her)

    God works in mysterious ways (and if you think what I wrote is ridiculous, I've seen worse caca typed here on the forum over the years
    The only problem I have with that, FO, is that God orchestrating it means He also, in that, planned to ruin two other people by blessing her... we really can't jump to that conclusion because we don't know if any of them are believers. (And I haven't commented in this thread at all up till now.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by FaithfulOne View Post
    God works in mysterious ways (and if you think what I wrote is ridiculous, I've seen worse caca typed here on the forum over the years
    Caca?

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    Maybe the waitress was aiming to get her story to go viral and then to get crowd funded (crowd pitied?)

    There are many ways of getting rich these days. Or at least a bit richer than before.

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    That story was always fishy, the mad stream media floats a version of the same plot every few months. They almost always end up being bogus.

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