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Revolt at the Post - (Brohaha over what color the editors are!)
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| DECEMBER 13, 2004
| CLIFF KINCAID
Posted on 12/13/2004 5:09:05 PM PST by CHARLITE
White people, especially white males, were depicted as something close to the plague, to be avoided or at least isolated. That is why the promotion of Philip Bennett, "who is white," to the position of the paper's number 2 editor was so controversial. But listen to this: National reporter Darryl Fears, "who is black," was quoted as saying that Bennett's promotion over Eugene Robinson, "who is black," confirmed his "worst suspicions" about "the ability of African Americans and other minorities to rise to the highest level of the best papers in the world."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aim; coverstories; diversity; euphemisms; hypocrisy; leonarddownie; liberalmedia; racism; washingtonpost; wp
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:09:05 PM PST
by
CHARLITE
To: Former Military Chick
National reporter Darryl Fears, "who is black," was quoted as saying that Bennett's promotion over Eugene Robinson, "who is black," confirmed his "worst suspicions" about "the ability of African Americans and other minorities to rise to the highest level of the best papers in the world."Revolt at the (official publication of the white liberal plantation) Post.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:15:13 PM PST
by
No Longer Free State
(If integrity does not reside in the captain of the ship, then it is not on board)
To: CHARLITE; Charles Henrickson; Constitution Day; mikrofon; Tijeras_Slim; Petronski
A "bro-haha"?
Shirley you jest.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:15:27 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(pAye p00r atenShun 2 dEtai)
To: CHARLITE; mhking
Left-wingers and affirmative action kiddies at each other's throats. I love it.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:15:48 PM PST
by
rdb3
(Can I join the Pajamahadeen even if I sleep in the nude?)
To: CHARLITE
Good post about the bad Post. People complain about the New York Times and Dan Rather, but the Washington Post is also dreadfully liberal. It is drenched with political correctness, filled with gay propaganda nearly every day, runs endless stories about blacks struggling under white racism, past and present, and puts conservative Christians in the back of the bus.
When tired of bashing the New York Times, consider bashing the Post.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:15:59 PM PST
by
heye2monn
To: CHARLITE
Post executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr. told staffers that, of the paper's 30 to 40 top editors, "white males are in the minority."
>>>> So there IS racism there after all!!!
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:21:45 PM PST
by
konaice
To: CHARLITE
Considering the racist cartoons that depict Condi Rice as 3/5 of a human appearing in papers like the Washington Post. Should any of these reporters be suprised?
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:22:15 PM PST
by
rwilson99
(I am a South Park Republican)
To: CHARLITE
It must be very difficult for "both sides" at the washington Post--and in the bureaucratic realm everywhere--to have to use this tortured language in order to accuse that race is behind a promotion of one person over another and also in order to defend that decision in the "politically correct" nonesense-speak of the contemps.
How much simpler to see it as a good choice or a bad choice by the people in charge. If this guy who has been there so long feels underappreciated in terms of advancement==then go somewhere else. Life and our language would be so much better.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:25:32 PM PST
by
ontos-on
To: martin_fierro
Doesn't look quite right. Is it "Brou-haha?"......or "BREW-HA-HA?!"......Maybe it's "Broo-boo-hoo-HA-HA!"
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:26:13 PM PST
by
CHARLITE
To: rdb3
Please pass the popcorn.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:32:47 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(I got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELLS!)
To: CHARLITE
Jason Blair coulda ben a contender but for bias.....sigh.
LOL
To: CHARLITE
Maybe the Post should adopt the policy at my company. We hire the best person for the job. They could be purple with yellow poka dots, doesn't matter. We are evil capitalist, we just want to make money.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:43:14 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: CHARLITE
National reporter Darryl Fears, "who is black," was quoted as saying that Bennett's promotion over Eugene Robinson, "who is black," confirmed his "worst suspicions" about "the ability of African Americans and other minorities to rise to the highest level of the best papers in the world."
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"the best papers in the world" ????????? What has that got to do with this story? This is about the Washington Post.
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posted on
12/13/2004 5:44:03 PM PST
by
Rockpile
To: martin_fierro; CHARLITE; Charles Henrickson
Would that be Tom Brohaha, formerly of NBC?
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posted on
12/13/2004 6:49:40 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Famous white newsguy)
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