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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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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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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: whoa. of 1,613 congressional candidates, not one has raised more money than Elizabeth Warren. #MASEN http://t.co/RgOSbXwF
In this morning’s useless inventions news, we have German designer Markus Gerke‘s concept for sunglasses that have Instagram filters built right into them. Design Taxi has this sneak peek of the innovative facial accessory. The lenses are to have a 5-megapixel camera allowing the wearer to take a photo of whatever it is they happen to be seeing, and in so doing, turning your life into an imitation fake Polaroid. Now you can look like you’re casually readjusting your sunglasses, when, in fact, you’re capturing a moment forever in such a way that your children will think you were born in the 1960s. And for those social fanatics among us, the glasses are to be equipped with wi-fi, so you can instantaneously upload your vision onto the Instagram app. Great. So soon I’ll have to look at every single cup of tea every single person in the goddamn universe has ever looked at.
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Moving away from its “Day One†theme, the campaign is now outlining what the first 100 days of a Romney presidency would look like. At the beginning of three of the ads, excluding Ohio, the narrator says that Romney would repeal the president’s health care overhaul and cut the deficit.
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A carefree birthday party and night out to celebrate the start of the Afghan weekend were reduced to destruction and butchery when Taliban gunmen stormed a lakeside hotel, opening fire indiscriminately on wealthy revellers.
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Mark Thompson to leave pubcaster in fall
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