The GOP Convention MegaMittensThread!

[Barrister]

Of course its a story. Whether it says much about the GOP is another matter, depending on the kind of responses we see.

It's only a story if it says something about the GOP however.

[Barrister]

It's not just politicians who make up a party.

And?

[CountDeMoney]

garbon likes having nuts thrown at him.

[garbon]

It's not just politicians who make up a party.

OK? We're hardly going to get news items out of how the base party feels / I don't think Repubs will revolt against their politicians who condemn calling black people nuts.

[garbon]

garbon likes having nuts thrown at him.

Thrown is a bit much.

[CountDeMoney]

garbon likes having nuts thrown at him.

Thrown is a bit much.

Fine.  Tossed in hedonistic abandon, then.

[garbon]

garbon likes having nuts thrown at him.

Thrown is a bit much.

Fine.  Tossed in hedonistic abandon, then.

That's acceptable.

[derspiess]

Yahoo fired the dude who was overheard channeling Seedy.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/yahoo-news-fires-david-chalian-source-133662.html

Yahoo News fires David Chalian
265
Comments () By DYLAN BYERS | 8/29/12 1:26 PM EDT
TAMPA, Fla. -- 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."

[derspiess]

It would be more innocent if the GOP didn't deliberately court these people.

And you'd have a point if that were actually true.

[CountDeMoney]

Yahoo fired the dude who was overheard channeling Seedy.

Something called "Yahoo News" shouldn't be in existence, anyway.

Nice try with the attempt to pin it on a real news organization, though.

[derspiess]

Yahoo fired the dude who was overheard channeling Seedy.

Something called "Yahoo News" shouldn't be in existence, anyway.

Nice try with the attempt to pin it on a real news organization, though.

I use it a lot 

[Razgovory]

It would be more innocent if the GOP didn't deliberately court these people.

And you'd have a point if that were actually true.

    You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.[36]

    And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger"

Yeah, I can't imagine where I got the impression that the GOP courts these people

[garbon]

I get all my news through Yahoo.

[Barrister]

It would be more innocent if the GOP didn't deliberately court these people.

And you'd have a point if that were actually true.

    You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.[36]

    And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger"

Yeah, I can't imagine where I got the impression that the GOP courts these people

[Sheilbh]

I thought Yahoo was a news aggregator like Google, didn't know they had reporters.

In GOP race relations, Jeb Bush said today that the party needs to stop being silly on immigration. It didn't help that when a delegate was speaking with a Spanish accent last night the crowd drowned them out with chants of USA. Apparently the video's got lots of traction in Spanish language news sites.