Another one bites the dust: Yahoo editor fired

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From the washingtonpost.com:

David Chalian, the Yahoo News Washington Bureau chief, has been fired after getting caught on a hot mike telling a fellow host on an live ABC News web show to “feel free to say” that “they” — Mitt Romney and his fellow Republicans — “are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

The implication: that Republicans’ decision to continue with their convention despite the hurricane hitting New Orleans means they don’t care about black people.

Chalian’s words were first caught by the conservative media criticism site Newsbusters. Yahoo has released a statement apologizing for the comment and announcing that Chalian had been terminated.

“David Chalian’s statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!.” the statement reads. “He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.”

Politics is getting rough now.  A Yahoo bureau chief fired is fairly serious business.  That is one of those comments though, that simply cannot be said aloud without consequence.  Losing your job seems like serious business.

Should  Chilian have been fired or would a warning and an apology sufficed?  Have we gotten too politically correct in the opposite direction?

[Listen carefully to the video…in the background.  Its ok to close your eyes. You won’t miss a thing!!!]

 

 

The Republican Platform: eeewwwwwwww!

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The 16 Planks of the Republican Platform:

Each plank is linked to an explanation.

If I ever needed a list of reasons why I couldn’t be a republican or vote republican, I guess I am looking at it right now.  Don, you got my last R vote.  (insider joke)

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Who will connect to the ……….?

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Last night, Ann Romney tried to connect her husband to the women.  She spoke of love.  The women at the convention loved Mrs. Romney.  I aam not so sure how well she did with those not at the convention.

Governor Chris Christie tried to connect to a tough guy anti union crowd.  He threw raw meat and spoke about respect.  The crowd loved him.  He nearly forgot to mention Mitt, but the crowd roared.  Public employee hater Scott Walker came along with a similar theme.  He didn’t create quite the roar Christie did, but Christie is a Republican lion.

Tonight another appeal will come out.  Jeb Bush will attempt to connect to the Hispanics, especially in swing state Florida.  He has a tall order.  The Republican party is the party of “Illegal is Illegal.”  Its hard to find a Latino family that doesn’t have friends or family who is here illegally.  Sympathies are usually with the person out of status.  Jeb Bush will also represent the family that no one mentions.  Neither of the President Bushes are at the convention.  President George Herbert Walker Bush is not in the best of health.  His son President George W. Bush has retired from politics.  That leaves Jeb to hold up the old guard of the Republican Party.  Jeb will be busy.

 

Conservative Missouri women defend Akin

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The Washington Post has run a very interesting article on several conservative women from Missouri who still defend Todd Akin, the poster child for no exceptions for rape or incest.  The story almost transports the reader to the land time forgot.  Sharon Barnes and Janice DeWeese were both busy in Fenton, Missouri defending Todd Akin and the life they had chosen for themselves.  According to washingtonpost.com:

They are women who think that they have in some ways become less liberated in recent decades, not more; who think that easy abortion, easy birth control and a tawdry popular culture have degraded their stature, not elevated it. Though the women here were of varying faiths and economic backgrounds, they were white and bound by a shared unease with Obama in particular and liberals in general, who seemed so often to hold them in contempt.

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