Crossing Broad
As expected, Mayor Parker’s Birds flub went viral. She had a brain fart during a press conference a little less than a week ago, spelled “Eagles” incorrectly, and then addressed the error, but not before every major account on social media had a field day with it:
E-L-G-S-E-S! Mayor Cherelle Parker addressed her spelling mishap during a Tuesday press conference after accidentally messing up the Eagles chant over the weekend. pic.twitter.com/LfmfhwinJ2
— CBS Philadelphia (@CBSPhiladelphia) January 21, 2025
NEW: Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker forgets how to spell, misspells ‘Eagles’ while leading a chant.
“Let me hear you all say. E-L-G-S-E-S, Eagles!” she shouted.
Parker is a first-term Democrat. She assumed office in 2024. pic.twitter.com/ZNybTwqudy
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 22, 2025
EMBARRASSING: DEI Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker starts an Eagles chant but turns out she doesn’t even know how to spell it.
E-L-G-S-E-S
pic.twitter.com/IPAdWB0hGe— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 22, 2025
Rough couple of weeks for the mayor. She endorsed the Sixers arena, then Josh Harris pivoted at the last moment and decided to go 50/50 with Comcast on a new building in South Philly. Then she went through a rambling mess of a press conference with both Comcast and HBSE before dropping the “Eagles” spelling mistake about a week later. Poor woman.
Not sure about you, but when I saw that the first time, I was like, “ah, she flubbed it.” It happens. Public speaking is tough, and sometimes dumb shit happens, like maybe you have Asperger syndrome and throw up what looks like a Nazi salute, but you’re not REALLY a Nazi. I am pretty sure the Philadelphia mayor knows how to spell “Eagles” and her brain was just overloaded at the time.
What’s corny is all of these accounts calling her a “DEI” mayor, and I’m not trying to get into some political quicksand here, because if you’re a Democrat, fine, and if you’re a Republican, fine. You can like or dislike Cherelle Parker as a politician, and agree or disagree with her platforms. But to suggest that a black woman is a DEI hire just because she had a brain fart is beyond the pale. For starters, Mayors aren’t hired, they’re elected, as I’m sure we’re all aware, and Parker won the general with 232,000 votes and won the primary with 82,000 votes. Parker beat an Asian Republican man in the general and the runners up in the Democratic primaries were two women. The only white men who even ran were Jeff Brown and Allan Domb, while three black men were involved. So can you really be a “DEI mayor” in a city where the black population is larger than the white population, and when the Democratic primary candidates are 75% women or POC? Something to think about.
disclaimer: this is not a political post. enough with the outrageous fuckery. let’s just try to be reasonable people and GO BIRDS...
