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Rachel Quits Public Radio
County Press, Second Thoughts (Phila Suburbs) ^ | 12-8-04 | William W. Lawrence

Posted on 12/08/2004 12:27:15 PM PST by Temple Owl

First CBS and now WHYY-FM. Will it never end?

Rachel Buchman, a 25-year-old ace reporter who has been with the public radio facility for about three years, has quit her job.

The move came after she "lost her temper" and left a voice-mail message to Laptoplobbyist.com, a conservative Internet site.

Her message said, "Hi, my name is Rachel, and my telephone number is... I wanted to tell you that you're evil, horrible people. You're awful people. You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and he wants to kill your children. You should all burn in hell. Bye."

Chris Carmouche, Laptoplobbyist executive director who had never heard of Ms. Buchman, discovered her WHYY (90.9) connection when he returned her call. During their conversation, he questioned her journalistic objectivity.

Then Carmouche e-mailed his 150,000 members a transcript of the message and a link to an audio clip of it. He said he did that "to put some perspective on the term 'media bias.'"

Ms. Buchman resigned or turned in her press card or whatever those public radio folks do and offered apologies "to anyone who I may have personally offended" for what she called a "mistake."

We all make mistakes, Ms. Buchman.

Winston Churchill once said, "any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brain."

You have a long five years to cultivate your gray matter.

I will share an embarrassing secret with you. I once voted for Jimmy Carter.

(Excerpt) Read more at countypressonline.com ...


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To: Tribune7

You really should read the whole column.


61 posted on 12/08/2004 5:05:59 PM PST by Temple Owl (19064)
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To: Tribune7
I will share an embarrassing secret with you. I once voted for Jimmy Carter.

LOL!!!

As for Rachel ... Hey, I have a tempter too ... but never would I call someone a rant off a message like that

62 posted on 12/08/2004 5:08:51 PM PST by Mo1 (Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
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To: Temple Owl
God hates you and wants to kill your children

Isn't that the job of liberals?

63 posted on 12/08/2004 5:18:35 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Thank you President Bush, and thank you America!)
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To: Grampa Dave

That woman is 25? Sheesh, maybe I should start hanging around lesbians.......I'd look young....... ;^)


64 posted on 12/08/2004 5:19:28 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Thank you President Bush, and thank you America!)
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To: Tribune7

It was Surrick who nailed Rolf Larsen and booted him from the PA Supreme Court.;


65 posted on 12/08/2004 5:25:21 PM PST by Temple Owl (19064)
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To: Grampa Dave

Is that Rachael or is it the Fresh Air goof?


66 posted on 12/08/2004 5:29:43 PM PST by Temple Owl (19064)
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67 posted on 12/08/2004 6:07:09 PM PST by little jeremiah (What would happen if everyone decided their own "right and wrong"?)
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To: Grampa Dave

That's a man.......that's a man.......


68 posted on 12/08/2004 6:08:19 PM PST by KoRn
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To: hattend; Grampa Dave
Yikes! That's a picture of a 25 year old? The hate and self-loathing is really aging her beyond her years.

That's not Rachel. That's Terry Gross, the host of "Fresh Air," a liberal interview show on NPR that is produced by the same station where Rachel worked.

Terry Gross is pretty much as old as she looks.

69 posted on 12/08/2004 6:11:55 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (W2: Coming January 20, 2005! Be There!)
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To: Temple Owl

Brown skirt alert


70 posted on 12/08/2004 6:13:23 PM PST by 82Marine89 (Robin Hood was a democrat.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
That woman is 25? Sheesh, maybe I should start hanging around lesbians.......I'd look young....... ;^)

That's not Rachel. This is Rachel below on the left (of course), in her natural habitat:


71 posted on 12/08/2004 6:15:43 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (W2: Coming January 20, 2005! Be There!)
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To: Tribune7
This is the important part:

I would respectfully disagree. This is the important part:

Biotechnology has so far had its greatest impact in medicine. Its application in making recombinant vaccines and recombinant insulin for treating diabetes has been a great success.

In agriculture, a number of the applications of biotechnology in clonal micro-propagation of plants have been successful. Propagation of seedlings for re-forestation, fruit trees, and floriculture has been a tremendous contribution. The problems have come in its application to make transgenic food items. The announcement by a company regarding its capability to produce seeds containing terminator genes caused quite a negative stir against biotechnology by many people in Africa.


72 posted on 12/08/2004 6:35:03 PM PST by DBeers
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To: Dont Mention the War

Thanks for clarifying that - she definitely looks 25, or younger......... maybe it's that hairstyle - I pulled my daughter's hair up in a "Pebbles Flintstone" thing when she was 3.......... ;^)


73 posted on 12/08/2004 6:35:32 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Thank you President Bush, and thank you America!)
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To: DBeers
????

I think you're looking at a different article.

74 posted on 12/08/2004 6:51:28 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

-either way, one must admit her actions caused quite a negative stir against biotechnology.


75 posted on 12/08/2004 6:57:11 PM PST by DBeers
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To: DBeers

oooookaaaay.


76 posted on 12/08/2004 7:04:00 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
lol

I was just yanking your chain.

:)

77 posted on 12/08/2004 7:27:13 PM PST by DBeers
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To: Dashing Dasher
WE HAVE A WINNAH:

How does someone barely out of diapers get to be an ace reporter?

By hating Republicans, of course.

78 posted on 12/08/2004 10:58:05 PM PST by GOPJ (M.Dowd...hits..like a bucket of vomit with Body Shop potpourri sprinked across the surface--Goldberg)
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To: TheresaKett

Ping


79 posted on 12/09/2004 5:29:37 AM PST by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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