It helps to be Superman's pal...
Posted on 12/08/2004 12:27:15 PM PST by Temple Owl
First CBS and now WHYY-FM. Will it never end?
Rachel Buchman, a 25-year-old ace reporter who has been with the public radio facility for about three years, has quit her job.
The move came after she "lost her temper" and left a voice-mail message to Laptoplobbyist.com, a conservative Internet site.
Her message said, "Hi, my name is Rachel, and my telephone number is... I wanted to tell you that you're evil, horrible people. You're awful people. You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and he wants to kill your children. You should all burn in hell. Bye."
Chris Carmouche, Laptoplobbyist executive director who had never heard of Ms. Buchman, discovered her WHYY (90.9) connection when he returned her call. During their conversation, he questioned her journalistic objectivity.
Then Carmouche e-mailed his 150,000 members a transcript of the message and a link to an audio clip of it. He said he did that "to put some perspective on the term 'media bias.'"
Ms. Buchman resigned or turned in her press card or whatever those public radio folks do and offered apologies "to anyone who I may have personally offended" for what she called a "mistake."
We all make mistakes, Ms. Buchman.
Winston Churchill once said, "any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brain."
You have a long five years to cultivate your gray matter.
I will share an embarrassing secret with you. I once voted for Jimmy Carter.
(Excerpt) Read more at countypressonline.com ...
By hating Republicans, of course.
Doesn't Rachel have any friends? Friends don't let friends E-mail while drunk.
I think it is being generous to call that a mistake. A mistake was not being honest about her true hatred for conservatives. Now she's out of the closet. That's not a mistake, even though it cost her her job. Now she can deal with it. Send her to Haters Anonymous so she can get some help and stop denying her problem.
To me she sounded like a teenage spoiled brat type that you just want to slap.
Speaking of overrated airheaded liberal female reporters, whatever happened to Ashleigh Banfield?
bye-bye
BUMP!
Buh-bye
For a brief moment, I was wondering what a "Lapto Plobbyist" is...
LOL...thanks fer the link. Whatta dumb-assed nitwit...MUD
LOL...took a brief moment to register with me, too...MUD
Another Victory in the War On Error.
More like a spacey reporter.
Could have been a mispelling?
Maybe she's only had one story?
Perhaps she moonlights at that hardware chain to pay off all those J-school loans?
churchill is wrongly credited with that popular phrase...
Do you know to whom it should be credited?
I hate those mispronunciations. It's supposed to be a short A.
By being extremely ambitious, kissing up, and possibly bedding the right higher-ups.
I see it all the time: A dead-level, competent, smart, 45 year old stuck in the trenches.
A 25 year old arrogant jerk too stupid to wipe his (or her) own butt promoted way up the ladder in a hurry.
Some people only have one skill, and ultimately its almost the only skill you need: self-promotion.
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