Posted on 11/14/2007 3:56:41 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
WASHINGTON - A Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for The Washington Post has apologized for sending an angry e-mail in which he called District of Columbia Council member Marion Barry a "crack addict."
Tim Page wrote to Barry's aide last week after receiving a press release about the former mayor's views on the financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital.
"Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding?" the e-mail said. "I'd be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose."
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In a story published Tuesday in The Washington Post, Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. called Page's e-mail "a terrible mistake" and said he had taken "appropriate internal action." Neither Downie nor Page would disclose what the action was. Page plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1.
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Why’s he apologizing?
Because he had the cajones to tell Barry’s staff the truth, I guess...!
The PC Nazis made Page retract his obvious factually accurate statements. Censorship rules at The Washington Compost.
Music critic? Sounds like he’d be a great sportswriter - think of all the athletes he could skewer.
The newspaper that employed a reporter who was actually awarded a Pulitzer for a fictional story apologises for telling the truth. Amazing.
Da reporter set me up!
Exactly! When shoe fits, call it a shoe.
Man I had some great analogies but all of them could be taken way out of context.
Still waiting for J. F’n Kerry spokesman David Wade to apologize for calling Rush an Oxycontin addict.
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A professional liar, he was caught expressing the truth in written form.
I reported abuse on my self using the kettle analogy at number seven and I guess the mod agreed - reference Bill O’Reilly. LOL
How about a former, convicted crack addict whose rehab status remains uncertain?
“Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding?” the e-mail said. “I’d be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose.”
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. No surprise the WaPo doesn’t see it that way.
In the interest of accuracy, he may no longer be a crack addict. He may have moved to other drugs. Requires further stings, er, I mean investigation.
Never apologize for the truth. Never.
This is funny.
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