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'PLAYGIRL' EDITOR FIRED AFTER OUTING SELF AS REPUBLICAN
Drudge Report

Posted on 03/21/2005 7:17:59 AM PST by Babu

PLAYGIRL editor-in-chief Michele Zipp has been stripped of her duties after she revealed how she voted Republican in the 2004 election.

Zipp, in an e-mail, claims she was fired after an onslaught of liberal backlash.

"Hello Drudge,

"After your coverage of my article about coming out and voting Republican, I did receive many letters of support from fellow Republican voters, but it was not without repercussions. Criticism from the liberal left ensued. A few days after the onslaught of liberal backlash, I was released from my duties at Playgirl magazine.

"After underlings expressed their disinterest of working for an outed Republican editor, I have a strong suspicion that my position was no longer valued by Playgirl executives. I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, "I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.

"I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."

Developing...


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KEYWORDS: babesforbush; drudge; fired; gaymafia; michelezipp; playgirl
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To: Rebelbase; TheBigB
OK now that ain't right.

And B, thanks for the ping, hon.

101 posted on 03/21/2005 9:18:54 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Miss Behave

Happy to do so! :o)


102 posted on 03/21/2005 9:27:22 AM PST by TheBigB (Diva Betsy Ross called me "sooooo cute." Are you jealous? :o))
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To: Richard Kimball; Larry Lucido
Woah. OK now let's be fair. That was before Larry's reduction surgery. A man can only take so much of daily "Bro" wearing. Men feel confined and itchy in underwire, and beaches are out of the question fer sure. ;-)
103 posted on 03/21/2005 9:28:23 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: TheBigB
I'm feeling better, B, and thanks for the note, big guy. :-)
104 posted on 03/21/2005 9:31:41 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Voteamerica

Political affiliation is a protected class in federal employment as of 1998 IIRC.

Bubba wanted to make sure some of his sycophants stayed in the gov't.


105 posted on 03/21/2005 9:35:31 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: Richard Kimball; Larry Lucido
Hey Richard, I'll bet Lar is diligently working to find *your* last photo session proofs somewhere on the internet. This "hostage pic" war could get ugly. ;-)

I'm just glad *my* pics are hard to come by. ;-)

106 posted on 03/21/2005 9:51:58 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: pissant
News Flash! Not every republican is anti-porn.

I could not agree more! Hear, hear, I say!

107 posted on 03/21/2005 9:55:26 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
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To: Quilla
Hey Quilla, what in the aitch are those white, light rays seemingly emminating from Burt's tweeter zone? Whuuh?

He seems happy about it, whatever they are. I had forgotten about his pose for Playgirl. LOL.

108 posted on 03/21/2005 9:58:07 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: goldstategop

Women have thier own versions of porn ;)

Movies & pictures don't do what books can (allow imaginations to run free :) )


109 posted on 03/21/2005 9:58:35 AM PST by najida (The older I get, the more I hate gravity.)
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To: Logic n' Reason

Isn't porn just some fast way of saying popcorn? That's what guys tell me. And they tell me it's OK, not to think that it's bad. ;-)


110 posted on 03/21/2005 10:00:51 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Miss Behave
Hey Quilla, what in the aitch are those white, light rays seemingly emminating from Burt's tweeter zone?

Miss B, I haven't a clue, but that's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on FR. Tweeter zone! Sounds like something Barney Frank would say walking by a candy store. ;-)

111 posted on 03/21/2005 10:13:03 AM PST by Quilla
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To: ko_kyi

The Playgirl editor is a federal employee?


112 posted on 03/21/2005 10:19:55 AM PST by Voteamerica
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To: Voteamerica

What state is Playgirl based in? You can look high and low, but you won't find my Republican voter registration. Not because I'm not a Republican, but because I'm a Texan, and Texas is an open primary state.


113 posted on 03/21/2005 10:22:41 AM PST by Melas
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To: Quilla
I call the teenage girls that wear their jeans SOOO low, wearing them down to their "tweeter zone."

And I tell them so it I happen to know them. And I tell them that creepy old men's eyes are locked onto the zone, and that THAT'S NOT HOT (as well as just not being cool, period.)

I give the breezy-bellied girls my best disgusted look.

And I can do a KILLER disgusted look, trust me. ;-) It works, try it.

Luckily I don't personally know many tweeter zone jeans wearers. ;-)

114 posted on 03/21/2005 10:25:16 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: Richard Kimball

Thanks, now I have to go pluck my eyes out.


115 posted on 03/21/2005 10:26:46 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Voteamerica
Political affiliation is not a protected class, and I'm glad about that.

It may not be a protected class, but employees can still sue over hiring/firing based on political idealogy.

My company's insurance firm offers a rider for just that instance. Pretty scary.

116 posted on 03/21/2005 10:27:30 AM PST by RikaStrom
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To: Babu

I would have thought Zip's bit of press would have been good for the magazine. Though, really, the original article was kind of confusing. Sounds like Playgirl hasn't yet outted itself as a gay magazine yet.


117 posted on 03/21/2005 10:34:23 AM PST by Sally II
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To: Babu
[ I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, "I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican. ]

This should be noised about a bit...

Merely the tip of the slimeberg.. The only ones that DON'T know this happens are RINOs.. Democrats do, and real republicans do already.. RINOs would invent some infraction to have caused this blatant attempt at bigotry.. Course a "republican" working at Playgirl might be a RINOs herself.. might make a real republican of her.. I smell a law suit.. might even be class action at that..

118 posted on 03/21/2005 11:08:42 AM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: Rebelbase
Suck it in, George! ;-)

Great episode......... do you have the picture of the big black guy at the photoshop? ;-)

120 posted on 03/21/2005 11:40:40 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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