POLITICO reporter suspended for remarks

[mandym]

"Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams's public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility," POLITICO's founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote in a memo to the staff. "His comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media...for-comments-126989.html#.T-P2u7x8VI8.twitter

 

[InTheLight]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media...for-comments-126989.html#.T-P2u7x8VI8.twitter

Hmmmm...so occasionally the left polices their own and they get disciplined. It does happen to the left as well as the right.

 

[exscentric]

On the other hand http://newsone.com/2022250/joe-williams-at-politico-suspended-for-being-a-black-man/

says Williams was fired because he was black "Joe Williams at Politico: Suspended for Being a Black Man"

Guess we can have it both ways these days.