Yahoo News’ Washington bureau chief was fired Wednesday after he was caught on a hot mic joking that Republicans are “happy to have a party” while black people drown.
The comment was made by David Chalian during live coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and was an apparent reference to the convention getting underway while a tropical storm-turned-hurricane barreled toward the Gulf Coast.
“They are happy to have a party with black people drowning,” said a voice off-camera, later identified as Chalian, as video of the Romneys played on screen. Other people could be heard laughing at the comment.
A Yahoo! spokesperson confirmed to FoxNews.com that Chalian was let go, and said the company has apologized to Romney and his staff.
“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,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Chalian used to work for ABC before moving on to serve as the political director at PBS NewsHour and eventually work for Yahoo News.
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Doesn’t this run afoul of the basic Dem protocol of destroying all Republicans? I mean the airwaves and print media are filled with these nasty smear tactics used by the President’s campaign, so would you expect surrogates to continue the attacks? Let’s make note that it’s okay for the Dems to make frivilous, non-founded, smears against the opposition but if the Republicans make any sort of counter the thin-skinned Dems go ape-shit. It’s simply amazing he got canned.
Does anyone really think he’s going to STAY fired??? I’m sure they made sure some other Obama apologist would hire him so he can continue to spread his liberal hate.
Does anyone really think he’s going to STAY fired??? I’m sure they made sure some other Obama apologist would hire him so he can continue to spread his liberal hate.
It should also be noted that he was probably NOT fired for MAKING the comment, but for being careless enough to let it be captured on a “hot mike.”