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WaPo Editor: I Got Fired Over Charlie Kirk
Hot Air ^ | 15 Sep 2025 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 09/15/2025 7:38:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Did the Washington Post fire a long-time editor for speaking truth to power? Or did she lose her job because she couldn't do basic research before smearing the victim of a political assassination? Or worse?

YMMV, but the way Karen Attiah frames the argument in her newly launched Substack certainly looks sus, as the kids say these days. It takes her an awfully long time to get to the catalyst for her termination .... and for good reason, as it turns out:

What "work" would that be? Well, it turns out to be the work of slagging Charlie Kirk in the immediate aftermath of his murder. To be fair, a number of journalists also believe that to be their "work." One can perhaps understand her confusion on this point.

Except those actually aren't Charlie's "words on record." Attiah sources this from an article rushed out by The Guardian less than 24 hours after Kirk's death that attempted to argue sotto voce that Kirk had it coming. Even if one grants the Guardian the presumption that they took his words in context, Attiah changed the quote the Guardian provided at the link she used as a reference

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; akata; akatabimbo; akataloser; akatawench; charliekirk; deihire; fronthole; karenattiah; kirk; waaambulance; washingtoncompost
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To: Rummyfan

FAFO bitch!


21 posted on 09/15/2025 8:27:24 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Rummyfan

Did the Washington Post fire a long-time editor for speaking truth to power?

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No, she got fired because she is a lefty dingbat!


22 posted on 09/15/2025 9:11:46 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (NO rooftop security at the Charlie Kirk assassination event? Did we learn nothing from Butler, PA?)
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To: Rummyfan

Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom,
Dontcha just love it?


23 posted on 09/15/2025 9:13:56 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: asinclair
Hate speech. Not covered by the first amendment.

Yes, it is. Hate speech, however you define that, is covered by the first amendment.

This isn't a first amendment issue. This woman will not be arrested, she will not go to jail, and she will incur no civil penalties. Her bosses fired her for publicly embarrassing the company she used to work for.

24 posted on 09/15/2025 9:20:49 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Rummyfan

No surprise....that is a bitch with an attitude.
The hand on the hip is a giveaway!
I’ve seen that posture and it sickens me.
BITCH!


25 posted on 09/15/2025 9:32:40 PM PDT by BatGuano (If only tears could bring Charlie Kirk back.)
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To: Rummyfan

Well... I reakon it sux to that idiotic


26 posted on 09/15/2025 9:45:57 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Mark

“How much is in her “Go Fund Me” account?”
.
Nowhere-near that of Luigi Mangone’s account...


27 posted on 09/15/2025 11:39:24 PM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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To: Rummyfan

Tell me she is a Negro without looking...


28 posted on 09/15/2025 11:41:01 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Rummyfan

She looks like a tranny.


29 posted on 09/16/2025 1:16:11 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”.)
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To: Rummyfan

Hey,lady.
Your tampon is on fire!!!


30 posted on 09/16/2025 1:19:16 AM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: Rummyfan

Her pronouns are FIRED ANTI-AMERICAN BITCH!! 😀


31 posted on 09/16/2025 4:57:05 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

I’d love to see this subhuman wretch deported.


32 posted on 09/16/2025 6:32:31 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Rummyfan

BE GONE, WENCH


33 posted on 09/16/2025 2:57:16 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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