Posted on 08/29/2012 9:16:13 AM PDT by chessplayer
Updated with correction [11:43 a.m. EDT]: Yahoo! Washington bureau chief David Chalian made the offensive remark, ABC News's Julie Townsend told NewsBusters in a phone conversation a few minutes ago.
During live coverage of the Republican National Convention here in Tampa, [original wording: an ABC News employee] Yahoo! News Washington bureau chief David Chalian provided the perfect example of the pervasive anti-Republican bias Mitt Romney faces in his bid to unseat President Barack Obama.
In video broadcast Monday night by ABC over the Internet, the person Chalian can be heard claiming that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann are unconcerned about the fate of residents of the New Orleans area who are currently being hit by Hurricane Isaac.
“They aren’t concerned at all,” the person says on tape. “They are happy to have a party when black people drown.”
That line elicits laughter from several employees listening in on the joke.
From the audio, it appears the person Chalian was talking to an unknown individual named “John” who presumably was making additional jokes at the expense of Ann Romney although such jokes cannot be heard on the clip.
The anti-Romney joke was made while the person, presumably an ABC News producer, was on an active microphone, apparently unaware that his/her quips against the former Massachusetts governor were being recorded and broadcast live.
Unmentioned by the ABC News jokester is the fact that the Republican National Committee canceled the entirety of Monday's program or that President Obama did not cancel any of his regularly scheduled campaign fund-raising parties that night.
Of course, if they cancelled the convention and went up to New Orleans to help instead, then they would be accused of ‘grandstanding.’
Oh, palleeease!
What does this clown want to be when he grows up?
Oh, palleeease!
What does this clown want to be when he grows up?
Well im all about being above these gutter snipes but I just might tweet him a few rude things. :D
Calls for ads showing obama going to his fundraisers while “black people are drowning”. Where are the feds? the troops, the food, the helicopters? I don’t think FEMA responded quick enough.
The media will praise him to the sky.
And if anything goes wrong, they’ll just blame Jindal for it.
This man is probably projecting. These white libs are racists to the core. Born and raised to never be around blacks or any minority. They over compensate to hide their true thoughts.
Obama kids go to private school away from black folks.
Im talking about the average to poor black person that this fool is saying is drowning in New Orleans due to Isaac.
nobama wants to kill black kids through abortion...and eat their pet dog.
The Dem's will have no blacks watch their convention unless they just turn their TV on and let it play to an empty room while they go out and rob and rape people..I am talking about Obama supporters that have no clue about being a good person but will vote when they are paid a few bucks.. Make sure we all get out and vote for Senate and Congress,we can win if everyone stays together and shows the world what these Communist are up to in Washington..Vote ever lousy Communist Democrat out of office..
That jackass has more chins than a Chinese phone book!
Here he is giddy about the storm coverage causing the GOP problems:
He is being racist as he obviously believes that black people can’t swim.
I contacted Georgetown and ABC news and “shared” with them. Does anyone have a direct number to Diane Sawyer’s office?
Another racist journalist heard from....and Rush stated that this cretin teaches journalism at Georgetown University. Any of you parents who are paying through the nose so that your student can graduate with a worthless, obsolete degree in journalism should take note of this blatant example of bias. It is not unique to Georgetown.
If this moron would (yeah, right!) be fired by ABC over this he would immediately be hired by the DNC. He works for them already through ABC. If he worked directly for the DNC it wouldn’t change a thing.
The DNC paid press gives us a window into the DNC soul.
Racist to the core, they see everything through the lens of race. They can’t believe that not everyone sees the world in those terms.
Go to any Repub gathering and you’ll see people of all walks of life, who are united around a set of values like the love of God and family and country.
Go to a Dem gathering and you’ll find the angry and the bitter and the people who manipulate them, united in their resentment and the will to power.
How gay is that guy?! Or maybe he is just a wuss.
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