Fact checkers had the day off.
Via Daily Caller:
Media outlets are wrongly blaming Speaker Paul Ryan for a dress code that prevents women from wearing sleeveless dresses and tops in the Speakers’ Lobby.
This week, one female reporter was not allowed into the lobby because she was wearing a sleeveless dress, which is against the dress code. She described trying to stuff pieces of paper into her dress to function as sleeves, but secret security still denied her access.
A number of media outlets have jumped on this story as an indication that Paul Ryan is implementing arbitrary, sexist rules against women.
However, as many journalists have pointed out, the dress code is NOT new and was NOT implemented by Speaker Ryan.
Kasie Hunt, the Capitol Hill Correspondent for NBC News, noted that the “no sleeveless” policy has long been in place.