I don't believe any of them for one minute. They got caught, period!
For some reason, these fools are obsessed with Sarah Palin. She obviously scares them.
Sarah is so much smarter than that idiot they helped elect that it's pathetic.
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.
Who cares.
Good. If someone had a little bit of common sense at the HP, it wouldn’t have happened in the first place. DUMB.
Attack Gov Palin but leave her F children alone.
Allow to happen, apologize later … damage done.
So, what they really meant was “Gee, we didn’t think everyone would be so pi$$ed off about it”.
-PJ
Umm “Who cares about the Huffington Post”
Now, go live up to your name.
Erik Sean Nelson needs to be fired
I don't believe any of them for one minute. They got caught, period!
For some reason, these fools are obsessed with Sarah Palin. She obviously scares them.
Sarah is so much smarter than that idiot they helped elect that it's pathetic.
WOW!...
That's a new one, Guidelines for a (confirmed) Liberal blog...
Helen Thomas scorning / criticizing Gibbs and all this in 48 hours.....
its retarded, the entire media establishment
they’re using her love for her children against her
So far, all their attacks have been thru her family
They hate her because she can beat Obama, that simple, if she couldn’t, they wouldn’t bother talking about her. Sarah Palin has gotten more coverage today then Michael Jackson. Even today in liberal los angeles, on the Channel 4 news, they were discussing why Sarah resigned, she isn’t even Governor of California and they are talking about her. She brings out the fear in the libs, they are scared to death that a woman who is PRO-LIFE, for SMALL-GOVERNMENT, and actually SUPPORTS our troops instead of calling them murderers can one day become President
Erik looks like a real piece of work.
(...eyes rolling...)
“Who cares.”
Are you asking, “Who cares that demonrats are acting publicly like the despicable scoundrels that they are?”
That would be odd, because every decent person should care when vile reprobates foul public discourse with malevolent calumny.
But perhaps you’re asking, “Who cares that they apologized, because the apology is transparently insincere and would not have been offered except under duress?”
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Eric Sean Nelson
Thank you Huffington Post.Thank you Free Republic
F U Huffington Post.
Or...perhaps this was clarified in post 9.
Re: Eric's Self Description...
Sent By:
"Erik Nelson" On: Jul 07/03/09 7:00 PM To: XXXXXXXX@comcast.net
I believed her weak reasons for leaving were worth mocking. But it just upset the loved ones of the retarded, which wasn't my goal, so I removed it. I decided to pull it down, sorry for the offense.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:00 PM, XXXXXX@comcast.net wrote:
You said, "She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people".
I highly doubt the validity of this statement...as I am sure Sarah feels as I do, that there are way more than enough democrats, liberals, and members of the MSM already!!!
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