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A radio reporter in Philadelphia has resigned from her job after an angry message, left by her on the phone of a lobby group whom she believed were spamming her, was sent to her employer and the media. Rachel Buchanan, 27, wrote that she had been receiving unsolicited email at her web mail account from a group known as www.Laptoplobbyist.com. The group makes money by charging $US20 to send faxes to people in power and lobby on selected issues such as minimising separation of church and state and preventing the UN from "brainwashing our kids" into "despising" America. Ms Buchanan...

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...

NPR Reporter Says Christians Should 'Burn' by Terry Phillips, correspondent Hateful voice mail message to conservative group leads to resignation. A National Public Radio (NPR) reporter has resigned after a hateful voice mail message she left for a conservative group was made public. Rachel Buchman worked for WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR affiliate, when she called the offices of the Web site laptoplobbyist.com to express her outrage over an e-mail the group sent to her opposing special rights for homosexuals. "You're evil, horrible people. You're awful people," she said, identifying herself only as "Rachel." "You represent horrible ideas. God hates...

NPR Reporter Says Christians Should 'Burn' by Terry Phillips, correspondent Hateful voice mail message to conservative group leads to resignation. A National Public Radio (NPR) reporter has resigned after a hateful voice mail message she left for a conservative group was made public. Rachel Buchman worked for WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR affiliate, when she called the offices of the Web site laptoplobbyist.com to express her outrage over an e-mail the group sent to her opposing special rights for homosexuals. "You're evil, horrible people. You're awful people," she said, identifying herself only as "Rachel." "You represent horrible ideas. God hates...

A National Public Radio (NPR) reporter has resigned after a hateful voice mail message she left for a conservative group was made public. Rachel Buchman worked for WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR affiliate, when she called the offices of the Web site laptoplobbyist.com to express her outrage over an e-mail the group sent to her opposing special rights for homosexuals. "You're evil, horrible people. You're awful people," she said, identifying herself only as "Rachel." "You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and He wants to kill your children. You should all burn." Chris Carmouche, publisher of laptoplobbyist.com, said he's accustomed...

A voice-mail message left last week at the Virginia office of Laptoplobbyist.com, a conservative Internet site, went like this: "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." Rachel is Rachel Buchman, 25, a regular reader of Laptoplobbyist's e-mail newsletter - and a reporter with public radio station WHYY-FM (90.9) for about three years. And she left her office number at WHYY in the message...

(CBN News) - A Philadelphia radio reporter has resigned after she was called on the carpet for a phone message she left for a conservative group. Rachel Buchman worked for National Public Radio affiliate, WHYY-FM. She left this message for the conservative Web site laptop-lobbyist.com: "Hi, my name is Rachel. 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 is the executive director of laptop-lobbyist.com. He says he is not sure why Buchman...

"Hostile, hateful" - From Washington Times / Inside Politics PBS reporter Rachel Buchman has resigned from affiliate WHYY-FM in Philadelphia after a voice mail she left with a conservative activist group was made public. "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," she said in a breezy phone message to Virginia-based www.Laptoplobbyist.com over Thanksgiving. The group posted an audio clip of her message at their Web site www.laptoplobbyist.com/rachel.mp3, prompting both reporter and radio station to issue apologies Tuesday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that WHYY-FM's Rachel Buchman (search) left a message at the offices of Laptoplobbyist.com saying, "I wanted to tell you that you're vile, 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." Buchman says she lost her temper, and resigned for what she called "personal reasons" after Laptoplobbyist director Chris Carmouche (search) sent the audio message to 150,000 members of the site as an example of media bias.