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Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult [image filename a**hole.jpg, employee fired]
CNN via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit ^ | 11/04/04 | unknown

Posted on 11/04/2004 5:27:00 PM PST by conelrad

ANOTHER UPDATE: You can see a more complete statement on CNN's homepage -- click the "Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult" link at the top right. But since that's a java box and can't be directly linked, and probably won't be archived anywhere, I'm going to reproduce the full thing in the "extended entry" area below. Hit "read more" to read it.

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Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult

Disparaging image tags used to identify photos of President and Mrs. Bush currently circulating on the Internet were not created, disseminated or posted by CNN at any time, as is alleged. They were done by a junior-level employee of Netscape and posted on Netscape.com. CNN had no knowledge of this until it surfaced on other Web sites.

Netscape, which corrected the situation when it was discovered, has released a statement apologizing for the "inappropriate and disparaging terms" that were used in the image tags -- and saying that the company has terminated the employee.

So there you are.



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To: Yardstick
I remember that.

"Pajamagrams" LOL

61 posted on 11/04/2004 6:53:58 PM PST by perfect stranger (The Hummer is a regular Pat Buchanan on wheels." PJ O'Rourke from C&D magazine)
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To: Yardstick

We're all out of bubble gum here on FR. Chin up!


62 posted on 11/04/2004 6:55:24 PM PST by Charlotte Corday (I don't burn the flag because I can. I will burn the flag if I can't.)
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To: conelrad

What pathetic sophomoric whiners! The democrats are indeed on the path of self destruction. They don't need anybody's help.


63 posted on 11/04/2004 7:11:06 PM PST by Just Lori (Decency, strength, and integrity have triumphed!)
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To: conelrad

YUP. First noticed on FR by someone who posted about six vanities... until they got attention. =o)


64 posted on 11/04/2004 7:35:57 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Great idea... make the MSM scared of us


65 posted on 11/04/2004 7:36:43 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: SteveMcKing

Oh, man, Slashdot. "Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

That site is what you get when you combine rabid liberalism with fanboy fanaticism.


66 posted on 11/04/2004 7:41:33 PM PST by Terpfen (Anyone who worried about the election: crack a smile. We won.)
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To: conelrad

Bush can finally be blamed for someone losing their job!


67 posted on 11/04/2004 7:49:13 PM PST by RedWing9 (No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
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To: antaresequity

$5.00 for screensaving, cropping, uploading and finally linking?

No my brother.

$0.05 maybe....


68 posted on 11/04/2004 7:59:27 PM PST by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: conelrad
Netscape, which corrected the situation when it was discovered, has released a statement apologizing for the "inappropriate and disparaging terms" that were used in the image tags -- and saying that the company has terminated the employee.

Any chance of publicizing this employee's name and address? A healthy dose of public exposure and shame for the little jerk might do it some good.

69 posted on 11/04/2004 8:03:52 PM PST by asgardshill (Bad Liberal - No Kool Aid)
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To: Dog
They'll learn....people are watching them now.

They are slow learners, even Rathergate hasn't taught them that WE are watching.

70 posted on 11/04/2004 9:44:59 PM PST by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: conelrad; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone

Purges of the leftists are in order everywhere when they do blatant acts such as this.


71 posted on 11/05/2004 8:00:19 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Free Republic does another service for the good of America.

Warning to all corporations who answer to the SEC, this behavior will not be tolerated. Stock owners do not want precious corporate resources to be use to savage President Bush.


72 posted on 11/05/2004 8:03:25 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The left likes to think of themselves as "intellectual." I tend to think of them as "juvenile."


73 posted on 11/05/2004 8:10:54 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: King Prout
the employee got sacked, eh?

Yes, but I think we still need to sack those responsible for sacking those responsible, just for good measure.
74 posted on 11/05/2004 8:13:43 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: conelrad

my wife reported that on the local news yesterday evening, there was a live report about the bank robbers in Dallas. As the talking head described the BOLO for "two bank robbers," two pics of Bush flashed up on the screen.


75 posted on 11/05/2004 8:20:24 AM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe
As the talking head described the BOLO for "two bank robbers," two pics of Bush flashed up on the screen.

Huh?

76 posted on 11/05/2004 8:22:00 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: conelrad

77 posted on 11/05/2004 8:25:47 AM PST by OXENinFLA ( "Mr. Ararfat, We have news from America, President Bush won re-election." beeeeep "Yasser? Yasser?")
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To: conelrad
-- and saying that the company has terminated the employee.

Maybe he can get a job with the Kerry Administration...

~snicker~

78 posted on 11/05/2004 8:27:15 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Thank You God...for delivering us from "President Kerry!")
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To: Dog Gone; Grampa Dave; conelrad; Semaphore Heathcliffe
fyi:

Workplace blues in election aftermath

79 posted on 11/05/2004 8:34:31 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe

News anchor was saying, "Police are looking for two bank robbers who blahblahblah..." As she was saying that, along with a live shot of one of the banks, two pictures of Bush were flashed on the screen. I assume it was some newsroom hack's attempt at a joke.


80 posted on 11/05/2004 8:35:46 AM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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