Posted on 06/23/2012 8:50:44 PM PDT by MindBender26
POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter.
On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney was only comfortable around white people. Breitbart.com also flagged a series of tweets Williams had written that made fun of the Republican candidate, particularly in regard to his wealth.
"Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams's public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility," POLITICO's founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote in a memo to the staff. "His comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way."
I have MSNBC (and CNN) on 15 hours a day and can tell you for a fact that Politico reporters must have cots and sleeping bags in that studio. MSNBC is an openly leftist news outlet, and Politico appearing with Martin Bashir, Al Sharpton, Maddow, or Ed, is no different than writing for the Daily Kos.
So here you have the entire Politico institution in an unholy union with MSNBC -- proudly sharing its brand with a network almost exclusively devoted to race and class-baiting, and Williams is suspended for race and class-baiting.
Please.
Williams must be flabbergasted right now…
Politico's crusade to bully private citizens who might do harm to Obama with their private activism is also well documented.
Politico's also quite notorious for its naked attacks to remove conservative voices from the air. On a daily basis, Politico creates an environment where Mr. Williams felt that what he was doing out in the open was not only acceptable, but his job.
Obviously, Politico will never do the right thing and suspend itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The essence, as posted here, is that in a very rare instance, a Black reporter was disiplined for being a rampant racist.
Whooda tout?
Williams also has zinged the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for his wealth and more in a series of tweets compiled by Breitbart.com.
“Either Ann Romney meant Mitt is flaccid or that when we ‘unzip him’ we’ll find he’s a d—k,” Williams tweeted after Romney’s wife told an interviewer in April her husband’s campaign “better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out” if people thought he lacked a sense of humor.
Friends and Fiends at network in DC say he is gone from POLITICO and Persona Non Gravitas everywhere,
“Williams must be flabbergasted right now… “
Yeah, probably the first time in his affirmative action’d life he’s ever been told “no”
One very dull night, when so moved, I will write a piece about the AA reporters and anchors I have known.
My favorite, an otherwise very nice and lovely lady who, live on the air in New York, described St. Patrick’s Day as a “celebration, not just in New York, but a holiday for German people everywhere.”
Later, in describing Pope John Paul II as a beautiful, humanity-filled man, asked her co-anchor (live, on-air) “He’s so kind. Did he ever have a family?”
She “left” soon thereafter
What’s good for the goose...This needs to happen EVERY time a minority makes a racist statement. Let the left know we won’t accept double standards. When these morons start losing their jobs, MAYBE they’ll wise up.
You've been around long enough I know you're not making this up... Funny story, MindBender. I'm looking forward to the piece on reporters and anchors I have known...
I wish someone had old Obama he was noting but a piece of affirmative action @#$% along the way too.
Williams is a useless piece of race baiting excrement, comfortable only around other pieces of race baiting excrement . . . in my opinion.
The problem is, no one should ever be able to tell a journalist’s personal opinions in his or her work.
My belief always was that if I got equal amounts of hate mail from both sides, I had cut it right down the middle.
The problem is, no one should ever be able to tell a journalist’s personal opinions in his or her work.
My belief always was that if I got equal amounts of hate mail from both sides, I had cut it right down the middle.
PS, agree. He is what we called a TT, Total Turd.
The MSM must be mistifed that every lie they say about Roomey it costs Obama support.
Wonder if he has a brother named Juan.
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