It's Pat!
Posted on 08/29/2012 10:40:05 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac, a source familiar with the situation tells POLITICO.
"They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning," Chalian said during the ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, in reference to the fact that the GOP convention in Tampa is taking place as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf coast.
The conservative media watchdog organization NewsBusters first posted audio of Chalian's remarks, but referred to him as an ABC News employee (and offered slightly inaccurate transcription). ABC News spokesperson Julie Townsend informed the organization that Chalian was with Yahoo.
Chalian and Yahoo News spokesperson Kristen Morquecho did not respond to requests for comment; Townsend also did not respond to a request for comment. (ABC News, where Chalian was political director until 2010, has partnered with Yahoo News for 2012 political coverage).
UPDATE (1:30 p.m.): Yahoo News confirms:
"David Chalian's statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended."
They fired him only because he got caught saying it. Every single one of these Lib reporters thinks the same thing.
I have no idea who’s right — but, I always side with the person who doesn’t mention “memes”.
Subject David Chalihan reports Limbaugh broadcast of 8/29/12 is prof at Geaorgetown (Catholic Jesuit Univ DC) teaches a Masters degree of commmunitication, former political ed PBS News Hour, award winner for political broadcast. So he’s been teaching this commie junk at G-town.
Something you get from eating a bad burrito........
One less liberal jack@ss in the media ... until MSNBC hires him.
Give them HUGE RASPBERRIES for hiring this biased bastard, and thousands more like him, in the first place.
Does Dave “Big Racist” Chalian think that black people don’t know how to swim?
Who’s cryin’ now obot?
There fixed it for you.
well now we know what it takes to get fired by the liberal media...open mic, overt racism, caught red-handed.
And maybe now David Chalian can chug on over to mamby-pamby land and see if he can find a new career that doesn’t require commonsense or intelligence.
Better yet, maybe he can waddle up over to NO and help with the clean up effort since he apparently cares so much about “drowning black people.”
Republicans aren’t “offended” by asinine comments made by liberals (Chris Mathews for example). We are inconvenienced by having to point them out, but most liberals are not important enough people to really offend. They are kind of like the 4 year old kid in a store saying “that lady over there is fat”....no one cares!!
Maybe he is why Sandra "Roundheels" Fluke, spends so much on contraception. He is a complete richard head
I’m shokced.. stuned..
Yahoo News! Washingtton DC bureau chief Emmy Award winning Professor News Massager par non
kicked to the curb by Yahoo! News.. yup, stuned I B.
Now where will I get all my good stuff.? ;-}
I doubt it, the current holder of that position is doing just fine.
Today Vic Ratner reported on Ann Romney's Oscar de la Renta dress from the convention floor, so ABC has got the important stuff covered.
I doubt it, the current holder of that position is doing just fine.
Today Vic Ratner reported on Ann Romney's Oscar de la Renta dress from the convention floor, so ABC has got the important stuff covered.
We’ve seen it time and time again, over the years here at FR: people are only “sorry” and issue apologies when they’re caught.
This is not the first time this guy has behaved this way. You know he’s said this kind of thing before in the privacy of Yahoo offices and Yahoo management never warned him or threatened to fire him because this type of rabid anti-conservative behavior is part of their corporate culture. He was only fired because he was caught doing it outside their little liberal circle jerk.
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