The Right’s Warped Racism: The Firing of Joe Williams

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The Right’s Warped Racism: The Firing of Joe Williams

By: Sarah Jones
July 7th, 2012


Yet another win for the right wing in their war on reality. This one came in their success at getting Joe Williams fired from Politico for saying on the Martin Bashir show that Mitt Romney was very comfortable around white people.

Joe fired back in a column for the Grio this week, which is a must read, because he points out how the right wing targeted him and destroyed him for speaking his mind. Don’t tread on me seems to uniquely apply to certain kinds of white people.



Here’s Joe outraging the world by speaking the truth:

Video @ link~

After a relentless witch hunt against Williams, including combing through his Twitter account and Googling him for proof of Williams’ “racism” against white people, the Right wing made themselves heard, and his statement was deemed by his bosses at Politico as “unacceptable”:

Politico editors Jim VandeHei and John Harris called the statement “unacceptable” in a memo to staff. It “fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way,” they wrote.

Really? So reality is now “unfair”? Lots of things aren’t fair. It’s not “fair” that minorities are underrepresented in the media. It’s not “fair” that women are losing their rights in America. It’s not “fair” that Eric Holder was found in contempt for something there was no proof of him doing. It’s not “fair” that Mitt Romney was born to his rich father and others were not. None of those things are fair, but they are all reality. As the right wing likes to tell us, “get over it.”

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http://www.politicususa.com/wins-joe-williams-inherent-racism-msm.html

[tularetom]

1. The right wing didn't "get" Joe Williams fired from Politico

Politico is part of the right wing.

Williams should probably have known what he was getting into when he went to work there.

[Spazito]

2. Politico, the right wing propaganda outlet....

the 'son' of Talon News.

Mr. Williams' statement was fine, it is Politico that is "unacceptable" and falls well short of my standards for fairness and judgment.

[Fla Dem]

3. "Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former assistant to President Ronald Reagan,

is president and chief executive officer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico