...And perhaps they are just a 'little'
bit frightened of her demonstrated
ability, well surpassing their own, to
'connect' with fly-over America...???
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.
I was thinking along the same lines when I saw that picture. Further parts of my comments are:
BTW, hope you and your family had a Great Fourth of July.
Must have been drunk or stoned. I normally don't use the word "hate", but I do really hate these people. They are SICK.
Erik Sean Nelson looks related to Perez Hilton. They are both definitely anti-women.
Hooray for Free Republic. We dood it again.
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.
Too late.Maybe they should leave cuttings on the newsroom floor rather than print such trash.
Thanks for the ping!
A response to this dodo might be to sympathize and give your condolences that her mother had not always aborted her children!
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.
Thanks - same to you
Classless.
Amen!
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