NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney and his wife, at the GOP convention in Florida while a hurricane was approaching Louisiana, were “happy to have a party with black people drowning.”
Company spokeswoman Anne Espiritu said Wednesday that David Chalian’s remark was inappropriate and does not represent Yahoo’s views.
“We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offend,” she said.
Chalian made the remark during a hot-mic moment before Yahoo began its live coverage of the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday evening. Yahoo is streaming coverage in association with ABC News.
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I read Huffington Post really early this am and the it didn’t say it was like this…It said Romney and his wife were caught saying these things, so the libbers automtically rose up and slandered the GOPS and how awful and why were there only white people at the convention and why did Ryan talk about it was obama’s fault that a company had failed and they started in on Ryans family and how they had made the company in Janesville fail,,,,,
These libbers don’t want to know any thing that is truth about any thing and they won’t budge to listen and it is so sad that they would believe some one that has stolen their money and they blame Romney and Bush for every thing. Brain dead I think that the libbers are….sad but seems to be true….
Actually they are not brain dead, but rather so evil and sinful as to void their brains of any and all rationality and sense. And you ask; what is this evil and sin I mention? It is the evil and sin of humanism and Marxism, both of which feds off the blood of others, just like leeches. Humanism which in large part is part of Marxism denies any evil and sin relating to man. They believe man is basically good and will work towards good goals thus we have the basis for their form of equality. The problems resulting from this are many, but mainly to believe the things of humanists/Marxists also means you deny Christ God. This denial opens up the doors to all types of evils and sins, loss or morality, loss of respect for your fellow man and a loss of the wisdom and commonsense needed to decide the basics of determining good from evil. At the same time these people place so much emphasis on themselves they become self-righteous, greedy, arrogant and downright evil themselves as they progress more and more into their humanist/Marxist ideology. What I say is most assuredly true as we witness this everyday by how bolder these people become, the bigger lies they tell, the more we see and realize how really brain dead they are becoming with each passing day. They are becoming desperate in continuing to fed their egos, selfishness and self-righteousness. In so being they will act even bolder in the coming times ahead. You decide to what what extremes they will act out their desperation!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Guess I’ll spend more time on Yahoo now!
Be prepared more libbers on there then ever and they lack a brain cell between them—-they know what obama has and hasn’t done, but they are still blaming (even today Nixon) but they don’t blame any one else….They were on Jeb Bush today and I don’t care for his stance on illegals either but they roasted poor ole Clint Eastwood and they have no respect…..That should be their motto….DisRespect for all….and like I say be prepared they are brutal but not as bad as the Huffington Post…..But proud of the Yahoo management this time…