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To: Kaslin; Quix; pissant; DakotaRed; Cobra64; BenKenobi; cripplecreek; Tublecane; JPG; JABit; ...
...comments made by Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf, who claimed that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." When some of them flooded the newspaper with their educational and professional bona fides, Weisskopf said he meant to say that "most" evangelicals were "poor, uneducated and easy to command." That triggered more protests. The Post ombudsman at the time, Joann Byrd, tried to defend Weisskopf, saying that readers needed to understand most journalists don't know any of "these people."

Open mouth, insert foot, and chew...

9 posted on 03/15/2011 9:38:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: GOPJ

I would suggest that as a Post “journalist,” Michael’s gaffes were simply a case of him “actin’ natcherly.”

Or IOW, MSM journalists are extremely stoopid...and Ron-boy Schiller proved that once again.


12 posted on 03/15/2011 11:19:35 AM PDT by Scanian (i)
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To: GOPJ
evangelicals are "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command."

Who could ask for better enemies?

13 posted on 03/15/2011 11:24:51 AM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
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To: GOPJ

Quel IDIOT!!!!!!!
No surprise....


20 posted on 03/16/2011 6:56:00 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Tribune7
...comments made by Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf, who claimed that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." When some of them flooded the newspaper with their educational and professional bona fides, Weisskopf said he meant to say that "most" evangelicals were "poor, uneducated and easy to command." That triggered more protests. The Post ombudsman at the time, Joann Byrd, tried to defend Weisskopf, saying that readers needed to understand most journalists don't know any of "these people."

Open mouth, insert foot, and chew...

21 posted on 03/16/2011 12:11:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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