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Yahoo!News fires David Chalian
Politico ^ | 8/29/12 | Dylan Biers

Posted on 08/29/2012 10:40:41 AM PDT by raccoonradio

TAMPA, Fla. -- Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac, a source familiar with the situation tells POLITICO.

"They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning," Chalian said during the ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, in reference to the fact that the GOP convention in Tampa is taking place as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf coast.

The conservative media watchdog organization NewsBusters first posted audio of Chalian's remarks, but referred to him as an ABC News employee (and offered slightly inaccurate transcription). ABC News spokesperson Julie Townsend informed the organization that Chalian was with Yahoo.

Chalian and Yahoo News spokesperson Kristen Morquecho did not respond to requests for comment; Townsend also did not respond to a request for comment. (ABC News, where Chalian was political director until 2010, has partnered with Yahoo News for 2012 political coverage).

UPDATE (1:30 p.m.): Yahoo News confirms:

"David Chalian's statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters

and anyone who was offended."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: davidchalian; duplicate; yahoo

1 posted on 08/29/2012 10:40:42 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

I’ll bet Chrissy Matthews has already emailed David Chalian, asking for a current copy of his resume’ and about his availability.


2 posted on 08/29/2012 10:42:26 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: raccoonradio

Wow. That’s unusually on the ball for Yahoo. (A website that publishes articles about cool pictures and videos without having said pictures or videos or even links to them. Seriously, that’s a problem they have about once every two weeks!)


3 posted on 08/29/2012 10:42:58 AM PDT by verum ago (Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
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To: raccoonradio

Has anyone of any color drowned in this storm?

And what exactly is Romney supposed to do to respond to the storm?


4 posted on 08/29/2012 10:43:43 AM PDT by lurk
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To: raccoonradio

Nothing but Katrina redux. Sorry Chalian, but we’re all Katrina’d out. Besides, obama’s out campaigning.


5 posted on 08/29/2012 10:43:59 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: raccoonradio

What is wrong with these flippin’ idiots? It is raining, do only blacks drown or something? I know I have put my life on hold because it is raining in Louisiana >S<


6 posted on 08/29/2012 10:46:20 AM PDT by tiki
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To: mkjessup

Ha!, you beat me too it.


7 posted on 08/29/2012 10:46:51 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: lurk

There are currently no reported US fatalities from Isaac. Fox reports 24 dead in Haiti and 5 in Dominican Republic.


8 posted on 08/29/2012 10:47:06 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: raccoonradio

The crazy thing? Liberals like David Chalian really and truly believe what he said. Liberals are so deceived, they are so invested in their religion of Liberalism, that they have lost all ability to reason and think critically.

David Chalian simply got caught at what the corrupt MSM unceasingly messages every day. The only difference is that the corrupt MSM are smart enough to have developed plausible deniability. David Chalian spoke for his brethren in the MSM.


9 posted on 08/29/2012 10:47:22 AM PDT by Obadiah (If Reagan had another son he would have looked like Paul Ryan.)
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To: verum ago

Yahoo! has an unusually strong conservative following. Their comments are a hoot!


10 posted on 08/29/2012 10:47:42 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind...)
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To: raccoonradio

Soon to be hired by MSDNC...


11 posted on 08/29/2012 10:47:56 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: tiki
“What is wrong with these flippin’ idiots? It is raining, do only blacks drown or something?”

Just the left pulling the racist stereotype card.

12 posted on 08/29/2012 10:49:23 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: andyk
Yahoo! has an unusually strong conservative following. Their comments are a hoot!

I do my best to keep those comments interesting :D
13 posted on 08/29/2012 10:50:10 AM PDT by verum ago (Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
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To: raccoonradio

What a surprise - Yahoo News is some of the most leftist there is.


14 posted on 08/29/2012 10:50:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: raccoonradio

Yahoo!News fires David Chalian

He’ll never work in this business again... wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more... what a POS cesspool of Demonic Party-loving perverts.


15 posted on 08/29/2012 10:50:35 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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Yahoo News confirms:

“David Chalian’s statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.”

To bad the rest of the MSM wasn't so responsive. But there wouldn't be anyone left now would there.

I smell panic of the side of the left. They know there wonder boy is going down in flames.

16 posted on 08/29/2012 10:50:55 AM PDT by McGruff (Support your local Republican candidates. They are our last line of defense.)
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17 posted on 08/29/2012 10:51:08 AM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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