Says Romney profited from axing paper plant.
E.U.’s ‘Science, it’s a girl thing’ campaign sparks a backlash – BlogPost – The Washington Post
thegarance June 22, 2012 at 12:40PM
@thegarance: Mary Cheney, openly gay daughter of Dick Cheney, married her long-time partner Heather Poe Friday morning in Wash, D.C. http://t.co/DOQgiA3R
Gravity Always Wins
Salman Rushdie’s birthday cake arrives, misspelling one of his books
Salman Rushdie’s 65th birthday nearly started on a sour note when a cake made in the shape of a stack of his best-selling books…
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Sticky fingers at Vice and Paris Review party
The punk and preppie literary worlds collided Wednesday when hipster bible Vice co-hosted a party to launch the Paris Review’s summer issue at the…
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nytjim June 22, 2012 at 08:55AM
@nytjim: NYT update on U-Va. crisis: New Meeting Is Set on Fate of President of University
http://t.co/NR41Al7K
The Sad Fate of ‘Downton’ Estates
It’s rare for English mansions like the one in the hit show to survive over the years. By Anthony Paletta.
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Politico Suspends Reporter for Suggesting Romney’s Only Comfortable Around ‘White Folks’
Joe Williams, Politico’s White House Correspondent, made the remarks that resulted in his suspension during a panel discussion on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC show. Bashir suggested that Mitt Romney might be having trouble connecting with Hispanics because he rarely appears on television besides Fox. Williams responded:
Romney is very, very comfortable it seems with people who are like him. That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in some town hall settings, why he can’t relate to people other than that. But when he comes on Fox and Friends, they’re like him, they’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.
Not helping matters: The joke Williams tweeted about Romney’s penis. Williams’s account is currently set to private, but the colorful 140-character dispatches are available on Breitbart.com.
Politico’s founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei addressed Williams’s suspension in a memo to staff about their journalists’ “clear and inflexible responsibility to cover politics fairly and free of partisan bias.” They explained:
Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams’s public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility. His comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way.
Joe has acknowledged that his appearance reflected a poor choice of words. This appearance came in the context of other remarks on Twitter that, cumulatively, require us to make clear that our standards are serious, and so are the consequences for disregarding them. This is true for all POLITICO journalists, including an experienced and well-respected voice like Joe Williams.
Following discussion of this matter with editors, Joe has been suspended while we review the matter.
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rickklein June 22, 2012 at 08:26AM
@rickklein: whoa. of 1,613 congressional candidates, not one has raised more money than Elizabeth Warren. #MASEN http://t.co/RgOSbXwF