WaPo Writer: I Was Fired...for Making Up Quotes About Charlie Kirk

[Billiejeens]

BJ -
Typical, the left has to make things up to be against,
I knew it had to be pretty egregious for The Post to fire a Black Female.


The reckoning on the Left has been something to behold. Troves of people, not all public officials, have been getting exposed for their ghoulish celebrations over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Some have been put on administrative leave, and others have been fired from their jobs.

Kids, it’s free speech, yes.
No one had a black bag placed over their heads and dragged out by the secret police overnight, but most, if not all, were at-will employees.
And no employer wants workers who are pro-domestic terrorism. And when you lie about something in the media, you are for sure going to get your ass handed to you in a handbag.

WaPo Writer: I Was Fired...for Making Up Quotes About Charlie Kirk

A look at the fallout from a WaPo op-ed writer's firing amidst claims of cancel culture.

townhall.com

 

[Hafar1014]

The reckoning on the Left has been something to behold. Troves of people, not all public officials, have been getting exposed for their ghoulish celebrations over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Some have been put on administrative leave, and others have been fired from their jobs.

Kids, it’s free speech, yes.
No one had a black bag placed over their heads and dragged out by the secret police overnight, but most, if not all, were at-will employees.
And no employer wants workers who are pro-domestic terrorism. And when you lie about something in the media, you are for sure going to get your ass handed to you in a handbag.

WaPo Writer: I Was Fired...for Making Up Quotes About Charlie Kirk

A look at the fallout from a WaPo op-ed writer's firing amidst claims of cancel culture.

townhall.com

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Kamala Harris lacked brain power

 

[pknopp]

Seems to me the thread title is doing the exact same thing.

 

[odanny]

Nowhere do I see what alleged quote this writer made up and published in the Post. There is likely another reason they were dismissed, assuming this is even true.

 

[Billiejeens]

Seems to me the thread title is doing the exact same thing.

In what way?

 

[pknopp]

In what way?

She never said what the thread title is portraying her as saying.

 

[Billiejeens]

Karen Attiah, who was just fired from the WaPo for making up a Charlie Kirk quote, lobbied to get an editor fired for publishing an op-ed from Tom Cotton.

So no, I'm not interested in hearing free speech absolutist arguments from these people now that it's convenient.

 

[Billiejeens]

Nowhere do I see what alleged quote this writer made up and published in the Post. There is likely another reason they were dismissed, assuming this is even true.

That's weird

 

[kyzr]

Seems to me the thread title is doing the exact same thing.

the thread title is the same as the link title, duh.

 

[Billiejeens]

She never said what the thread title is portraying her as saying.

What was portrayed, in your mind?

 

[pknopp]

the thread title is the same as the link title, duh.

So my point remains.

 

[BlindBoo]

More like a misquote than making up a quote. In reality the propaganda that editor misquoted was more nuanced and in some ways more insidious than the misquote.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Kamala Harris lacked brain power

Ketanji has no brain. If Michelle Obama had to follow the rules she would never have graduated college.

Still and all, the quote is a lie.

 

[Lesh]

Nowhere do I see what alleged quote this writer made up and published in the Post. There is likely another reason they were dismissed, assuming this is even true.

It’s not true.

The quote is accurate

Fact Check: Charlie Kirk once said prominent Black women didn't have 'brain processing power' to be taken seriously

He was talking specifically about Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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She was fired for being critical of Saint Charlie

Trump is intimidating corporate media and it having a chilling effect … on free speech and democracy

 

[Billiejeens]

While I personally agree with what Karen wrote -

Charlie didn't

The left has to constantly make up men of straw to have things to attack
Very, very, telling.

 

[Lesh]

More like a misquote than making up a quote. In reality the propaganda that editor misquoted was more nuanced and in some ways more insidious than the misquote.

He he was criticizing affirmative action in general and these four black women in particular

The “quote “ used the word “black women” when he actually used the royal “you” describing black women in general.

But thanks for providing the clip showing what a disgusting racist Kirk was

 

[kyzr]

It’s not true.
The quote is accurate
She was fired for being critical of Saint Charlie
Trump is intimidating corporate media and it having a chilling effect … on free speech and democracy

The quote is not accurate. To just print that one selective line misinterprets what Charlie was really saying.

You need to watch the video to get the full context of Charlie's assertion.
Charlie was railing against affirmative action, giving slots to the less qualified instead of the more deserving.

 

[1srelluc]

Karen Attiah, who was just fired from the WaPo for making up a Charlie Kirk quote, lobbied to get an editor fired for publishing an op-ed from Tom Cotton.

So no, I'm not interested in hearing free speech absolutist arguments from these people now that it's convenient.

Pepperidge Farms remembers!

 

[kyzr]

He he was criticizing affirmative action in general and these four black women in particular
The “quote “ used the word “black women” when he actually used the royal “you” describing black women in general.
But thanks for providing the clip showing what a disgusting racist Kirk was

He was not racist. He wanted a color-blind society with fairness instead of race based "affirmative action".

 

[pknopp]

The quote is not accurate. To just print that one selective line misinterprets what Charlie was really saying.

You need to watch the video to get the full context of Charlie's assertion.
Charlie was railing against affirmative action, giving slots to the less qualified instead of the more deserving.

Even though there is scant evidence that anyone is less qualified. Kirk like so many others want to go back to a time where minorities could be passed over and no one ever questioned it.