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AOL's Fires Writer Tommy Christopher For Objecting to Playboy's Call to Rape Ten Women
Newsbusters/The Lid ^ | 6/4/09 | The Lid

Posted on 06/04/2009 9:00:15 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

I don't know Tommy Christopher personally, just from his regular gig on the Ed Morrissey show, and the fact that I follow his tweets and read some of his columns. I probably disagree with Tommy's politics 95% of the time, he is a liberal but he is not a crazy liberal and he is very funny.

One story that Tommy and I agreed on was this week's disgusting piece in Playboy, the one about the ten conservative women they would like to hate f**K. We both wrote pieces on it. Tommy's piece appeared on his regular AOL column and was very well received by everyone except his management. In a censorship move, AOL pulled the column within hours and today they fired Tommy.Tommy Christopher was fired because he objected to a Playboy article calling for ten women to be raped:

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aol; dbm; misogomy; playboy

1 posted on 06/04/2009 9:00:16 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

What kind of a world do we live in now?


2 posted on 06/04/2009 9:02:23 PM PDT by rbosque (10 year Freeper!)
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To: Shellybenoit

They can publish that and no demands to put them out of business?

We’d better learn to fight back against these evil dangerous leftists.


3 posted on 06/04/2009 9:03:33 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Shellybenoit

“AOL’s Fires....”

AOL’s what?


4 posted on 06/04/2009 9:08:35 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic. Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: Williams

The whole thing is disgrace. but maybe a few of these lefties need to have the wrath of Obama fall down on them to wake them up to stop kissing his ass and start doing some real reporting.


5 posted on 06/04/2009 9:10:13 PM PDT by curth (Sarah Palin 2012 - Saving America)
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To: Shellybenoit

Who are the women mentioned in the Playboy article? And if they are ( God forbid) sexually attacked, can they sue the writer and his magazine?


6 posted on 06/04/2009 9:12:25 PM PDT by redheadtoo
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To: redheadtoo

Sarah Palin and Megyn Kelly from FNC are the only two I remember. They were all conservative.


7 posted on 06/04/2009 9:21:05 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: redheadtoo
List is here.
8 posted on 06/04/2009 9:21:43 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Shellybenoit
No wonder they're frustrated...

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9 posted on 06/04/2009 9:46:35 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: Shellybenoit

Pray for you


10 posted on 06/04/2009 9:49:28 PM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty
Good one.

Just like the congressman who hoped the 9/11
hijackers all got their 80 virgins; and that
they all looked like Helen Thomas.

JJ61

11 posted on 06/04/2009 10:49:44 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: libbylu

Surprisingly, Sarah Palin was not on the list.


12 posted on 06/04/2009 10:53:55 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: Shellybenoit
Is anyone really surprised that an immoral rag like Playboy would crawl a little deeper into the ditch?

And even if you are surprised, you can't be surprised AOL fired a writer for thinking with his head instead of his*#@^.
13 posted on 06/05/2009 5:09:56 AM PDT by Korah
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To: Bratch; libbylu
When I heard of the list my first thought was that Ann Coulter would be number one. But surprise surprise, she not mentioned. How did they miss her?
14 posted on 06/05/2009 7:41:21 PM PDT by redheadtoo
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To: Cincinna

TEST


15 posted on 06/05/2009 7:45:02 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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