Posted on 12/04/2004 4:08:39 AM PST by Lindykim
NPR Reporter Says Christians Should 'Burn' by Terry Phillips, correspondent
Hateful voice mail message to conservative group leads to resignation. A National Public Radio (NPR) reporter has resigned after a hateful voice mail message she left for a conservative group was made public.
Rachel Buchman worked for WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR affiliate, when she called the offices of the Web site laptoplobbyist.com to express her outrage over an e-mail the group sent to her opposing special rights for homosexuals.
"You're evil, horrible people. You're awful people," she said, identifying herself only as "Rachel." "You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and He wants to kill your children. You should all burn."
Chris Carmouche, publisher of laptoplobbyist.com, said he's accustomed to liberals being offended by his group's moral stands—but added that Buchman's message was over the top.
"We want people to know that this is not an isolated incident," he said. "People have to realize there's not just a media bias, but in many cases there is a media hatred, toward anything conservative, Christian or traditional."
After Carmouche posted a recording of Buchman's message on his Web site, she apologized for "a personal matter that was turned into a public issue."
"Rather than call my journalistic integrity into question," she said. "I decided to resign for personal reasons." Carmouche said it's too late for her professional reputation to be salvaged.
"Conservatives will no longer tolerate the reporting of liberal vitriol as fact," he told The Washington Times. "We will not tolerate the Dan Rathers of the world spoon-feeding the public liberal propaganda. And we will call the 'old media' to account when they make their biases and bigotries obvious and deviate from commonly acceptable standards of journalism."
FOR MORE INFORMATION Take a closer look at the mainstream media's liberal bias by reading the CitizenLink commentary "Cheering in the Press Box" by Gary Schneeberger.
Your right, but "bras and bridges" seemed to fit nicely in my reply.
Yes, note the standard non-apology apology.
Hitler espoused the same ideas and solutions as Rachel's people were being sent to the gas chambers. Sick stuff.
Most bra-burners dont have a hell of a lot to hold up anyway, and the ones that do will find them around their knees in a couple of years.
Not very bright are you? Bigotry is always a personal matter until you open your big yap. This is what happens when you "think" you morally superior; a liberal disease.
"Rather than call my journalistic integrity into question," she said. "I decided to resign for personal reasons."
Too funny. Next you'll be telling me the world is flat.
Carmouche said it's too late for her professional reputation to be salvaged.
Not really. Go find a brain, take an objective and serious look at your liberal principles, compare then with conservative principles; have a genuine epiphany, and tell the world about it how you have changed.
We will take you in from the cold world and help you. We are friendly.
Maybe she can get a job at the DNC or the UN.
They all think like that. We would be loaded onto boxcars if they had their way.
FGS
Nah, I suspect she'll get work as a SITCOM writer for one of the major networks.
Or maybe she could get a job on Air America.
Homosexual Agenda PING
The Agenda is not only pushed by the Homosexual Lobby, but also by their enablers in the left-wing media. This is evidence of how "tolerant" they truly are.
I fully expect the hate towards Christians to increase as we get closer to the 2008 elections.
Let me or littlejeremiah know if you want on or off the pinglist
This article is gonna be hanging on my refrigerator for awhile.
If she does end up utilizing a soup line she's going to be very uncomfortable when she discovers that the vast majority of those doing the volunteer work on the other side of the line are those same Christians she wants burned.
Each and every person working at NPR, plus millions of OTHER Muslims worldwide...
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