'PLAYGIRL' EDITOR FIRED AFTER OUTING SELF AS REPUBLICAN

Drudge Report

[Babu]

PLAYGIRL editor-in-chief Michele Zipp has been stripped of her duties after she revealed how she voted Republican in the 2004 election.

Zipp, in an e-mail, claims she was fired after an onslaught of liberal backlash.

"Hello Drudge,

"After your coverage of my article about coming out and voting Republican, I did receive many letters of support from fellow Republican voters, but it was not without repercussions. Criticism from the liberal left ensued. A few days after the onslaught of liberal backlash, I was released from my duties at Playgirl magazine.

"After underlings expressed their disinterest of working for an outed Republican editor, I have a strong suspicion that my position was no longer valued by Playgirl executives. I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, "I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.

"I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."

Developing...

[bmwcyle]

Living and working in NYC it hard for a GOPer. Sometimes it is a blessing in disguise

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

[Imaverygooddriver]

The gay mafia fired her.."How dare you not support and embolden terrorism and tyranny girlfriend! Talk to the hand `cause the face don`t wanna hear it, mmm mmm!"

[clintonh8r]

Waiting for the ACLU to check in......

waiting

.....still waiting.....

Hello? ACLU? Come in, please......

Anybody there?....

still waiting....

[FatherofFive]

"Isn't that a magazine for gay men?"

I understand she's a homosexual male trapped in a woman's body.

[Babu]

I've heard her interviewed and she's a very bright woman.

kind of easy on the eyes too ...

[TheBigB]

We value your opinion...as long as we agree with it.

PING to the REPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE ping list! What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is a creature of the eighties. It's neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles, the Rehnquist Supreme Court on drugs, a disco Hobbes living without shame or federally mandated safety regulations. The Republican Party Reptile supports a strong defense policy, but sees no reason to conduct it while sober. The RPR believes in minimum government interference in private affairs; unless the government brings over extra girls and some ice. In short, the RPR is the new label that our political spectrum has been crying out for; the conservative with a sense of humor and a healthy dose of depravity.

[IoCaster]

Michele Zipp

[Conservative Goddess]

Ahhh yes, my little chickadee.....so you're a Republican? OUT! NOW!

LOL. Just another example of the tolerant left.

[cyborg]

I wonder if many women actually buy it.

[Boot Hill]

"I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican."

Neither would I.

--Boot Hill

[goldstategop]

Playgirl's loss is conservatisn's gain with a new conservative talk show host diva! A brunette Ann Coulter! Woohoo!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Quilla]

[NutCrackerBoy]

What about the writer Candace Bushnell of Sex and the City? She's a Republican. I thought talking frankly about casual sex would exempt one from The Backlash.

[Kozak]

This is what i found. Kinky. Hot, but kinky....

[Voteamerica]

What I don't understand is if she really is a Republican why was she selling pornography? She is either a hypocrite or not a Republican.

Does anyone think she was on her way out at Playgirl when she went public with her political affiliations? If the magazine had a policy of not hiring Republicans they could have easily checked her voter registration prior to taking her on, but it didn't matter then, why would it matter now?

This story stinks.

[KC_Conspirator]

I feel a multi-million dollar settlement for discrmiantion and unfair firing coming on.

[Rakkasan1]

[b4its2late]

The Pro Choice left at it's best.

[Kozak]

Where oh where are the NAG crowd? Picture the response if a woman editor was fired from Time for being outed as a gasp, DEMOCRAT!