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Pittsburgh anchor fired for ‘racist’ Facebook post . . . but was it really?
Canada Free Pressn ^ | 03/31/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 03/31/2016 9:27:57 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

18-year career marked with professional achievements and distinguished performance is over, just like that, because we can no longer say what we think. What a disgrace

A Pittsburgh news anchor named Wendy Bell, a veteran of 18 years at WTAE-TV, is now unemployed. Not because she did a bad job as a news anchor. As far as anyone can see, she didn’t. In fact, it had nothing to do with anything she did on the job.

You know where this is going, right? Bell held forth on her Facebook page about a recent local crime, and was quite unrestrained in expressing her frustration and anguish over what had happened - especially because she felt pretty confident it would follow a pattern she’d seen many times before. This would be a pattern that would relate to young men growing up with no fathers and having so many strikes against them before they even start their lives that something like this was almost inevitable. And oh yes, Bell acknowledged, this is particularly an affliction of the black community.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: crime; facebook; wendybell; wtaetv
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To: I want the USA back
The unforgivable sin in the USA is saying the truth about a privileged race.

I've been saying for a long time that truth is the new hate speech.

41 posted on 03/31/2016 12:33:02 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

There has to be a lesson here somewhere.....

Oh yea. Stay off Social media!


42 posted on 03/31/2016 12:38:01 PM PDT by saleman
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To: Sean_Anthony

One would think that news readers especially would know better than to speak the unvarnished, non-PC truth.


43 posted on 03/31/2016 12:51:10 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Resolute Conservative

The truth offends liars and those who depend upon the perpetuation of the underlying lie for their political gain. We are to the point where the publishing of FBI crime stats would be considered a hate crime to many people.


44 posted on 03/31/2016 12:53:38 PM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Brain Police will be coming next.


45 posted on 03/31/2016 1:38:43 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Sean_Anthony

The truth is not politically correct, or equal, or any of those things the left uses to obscure it.


46 posted on 03/31/2016 2:08:24 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Speaking the truth is a jail sentence now. They know the truth about these young thugs and the so called parents of these savages


47 posted on 03/31/2016 6:41:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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