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Huffington Post Apologizes for Offensive Sarah Palin Article
Saturday, July 4, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 07/03/2009 9:38:59 PM PDT by kristinn

The Huffington Post issued an apology Friday evening for an article about the resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted at their website entitled, Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform, written by HuffPo writer Erik Sean Nelson.

The Daily Dose published an e-mail apology from Mario Ruiz of HuffPo:

Due to an editorial lapse, Erik Sean Nelson’s post on Sarah Palin bypassed the normal vetting process and appeared on HuffPost — but was never featured anywhere on the site. Even though satiric works are generally given greater latitude, Nelson’s post falls outside of HuffPost’s editorial guidelines. As such, if not for the error, it would not have been approved for publication, and was removed from the site as soon as our editors became aware of it. We sincerely regret the error and any offense it might have caused.

Ruiz's statement the article was pulled by the editors contradicts claims by the author of the piece that he pulled the article within minutes of posting it:

Within 10 minutes of the post, I received 2 emails from special needs families, saw that it was hurtful and I pulled the post immediately. I apologize for offending you.

Since you wanted to know what I was going for, it was that Palin said that she was leaving the governorship because of jokes. What kind of President would she make if she couldn’t handle some bad jokes? I used her words to create a farcical situation where offensive jokes were meant to be ironic. I saw immediately that it was wrong and apologized on the site.

Tommy Christopher, the author of the Daily Dose claims his intervention on Twitter alerted HuffPo to the offensive article:

Also important is that, within 10 minutes of tweeting HuffPo editor Jason Linkins, the piece was pulled (although it took longer for it to completely disappear). On a holiday weekend, no less, that’s an amazing turnaround.

Of course, the left only cared about the article because Free Republic had brought public awareness to the nasty piece of work minutes after the article was published.

From Free Republic the outrage went viral leading to HuffPo pulling the article to ward off a PR disaster. Of course, there was no direct apology to the Palin family nor was the author fired, so HuffPo's apology appears to be a PR move and not sincere.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apology; downsyndrome; erikseannelson; huffingtonpost; huffpo; palin; palinattacks; sarahpalin
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
He looks like a less intelligent version of Perez Hilton

I was thinking along the same lines when I saw that picture. Further parts of my comments are:


Comment #*** self censored by Arrowhead1952.

141 posted on 07/04/2009 6:57:14 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

BTW, hope you and your family had a Great Fourth of July.


142 posted on 07/04/2009 6:58:23 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: antceecee
Too bad his Dad didn’t “pull out early”.

Must have been drunk or stoned. I normally don't use the word "hate", but I do really hate these people. They are SICK.

143 posted on 07/04/2009 7:03:25 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: kcvl

Erik Sean Nelson looks related to Perez Hilton. They are both definitely anti-women.


144 posted on 07/04/2009 7:03:30 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: kristinn

Hooray for Free Republic. We dood it again.


145 posted on 07/04/2009 8:21:03 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: kristinn

Wasn’t the story yesterday he pulled the post himself when people who had “retarded family members” were offended?

Is there a single person on the left whose maturity level is above a 3rd grader.


146 posted on 07/04/2009 8:45:24 PM PDT by Brytani (DC Freeper Convention and National Tea Party - FreepMail Me for rooms and convention info!)
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To: kristinn

Too late.Maybe they should leave cuttings on the newsroom floor rather than print such trash.


147 posted on 07/04/2009 8:51:07 PM PDT by madison10
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks for the ping!


148 posted on 07/04/2009 10:09:44 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: new cruelty
One person told me that her mother had an abortion long ago and voting for Palin would condemn her mother's actions.

A response to this dodo might be to sympathize and give your condolences that her mother had not always aborted her children!

149 posted on 07/04/2009 10:27:48 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Polarik; LucyT
I have generally been inclined to view the McCain certificate that was posted as probably valid. One of the members here lives in Panama and had researched the birth issue before the certificate was posted and correctly identified the hospital in which he was born as being not only in Panama but outside the zone.

So I haven't looked too closely at the certificate itself for the reason that on its face it confirms facts already in the record.

On the other hand, I think you are entitled to great credit for your careful detailed analysis of the posted material with respect to Obama.

At the point where there is a public debate on the record, the initial and central point is that there is no shred of any official record which demonstrates that Obama was born in Hawaii or anywhere else in the US.

Against which there is a significant body of ancillary information tending to show that he was in fact born in the Coast Hospital outside of Mombasa in Kenya.

It would be good if you could get a look at the certificate that was offered on E-Bay. Gossip in DC is to the effect that the persons who were originally retained by an offshore party to look for evidence of birth in Kenya obtained more than one copy of evidentiary certificates regarding the actual record and that the source of the E-Bay document is either one of the extra copies or one of the copies that was originally to be delivered to the client.

150 posted on 07/05/2009 7:43:48 AM PDT by David (...)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Thanks - same to you


151 posted on 07/05/2009 9:35:25 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Why isn't the black community outraged that MJ bought white babies instead of black ones?)
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To: kristinn

Classless.


152 posted on 07/05/2009 9:57:16 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: Polarik

Amen!


153 posted on 07/06/2009 8:25:50 AM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: Polarik
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:Hh9Nbz8sYV0MAM:http://www.chasthornhill.com/IMAGES/ART/FrightenedMan400.jpg

...And perhaps they are just a 'little'
bit frightened of her demonstrated
ability, well surpassing their own, to
'connect' with fly-over America...???

154 posted on 07/06/2009 6:17:23 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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