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SylviaD

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14. Because she made a mistake? Or because she is a woman who made a mistake?

Reply to ljm2002 (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 04:08 PM

Jun 2013

Tell me, would you be enthusiastically calling for a male reporter who made the same error to be fired?

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They just can't get over it-Obama birthplace mistake: Yahoo! News declines comment [View all] n2doc Jun 2013 OP

Just like the GOP lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #1

Goes to show how looney they are that the 2011 release treestar Jun 2013 #2

She's an JustAnotherGen Jun 2013 #3

Hartman didn't miss the birther story--in fact, she wrote this about it at the time: pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #4

Which makes it even weirder. Maybe a journalism intern wrote the recent piece mainer Jun 2013 #12

Or it was careless writing PatSeg Jun 2013 #25

That is disgusting... ljm2002 Jun 2013 #5

Because she made a mistake? Or because she is a woman who made a mistake? SylviaD Jun 2013 #14

OMG that is truly hilarious... ljm2002 Jun 2013 #16

It was an error, the reporter quickly filed an amended story. Why should she lose her livelihood? SylviaD Jun 2013 #30

Glad to hear that... ljm2002 Jun 2013 #32

I do apologize for my original response. n/t SylviaD Jun 2013 #35

Oh Good Grief! Yes, of course its all about gender, the "mistake" is just a convenient pretext n/t progree Jun 2013 #19

Sexism does lurk behind a lot of things. Are you willfully blind? n/t SylviaD Jun 2013 #31

Not EVERYTHING is sexist. There was nothing, *NOTHING* in ljm2002's post that was sexist progree Jun 2013 #33

I apologize for the willfully blind remark. n/t SylviaD Jun 2013 #36

ljm2002 is female, BTW. progree Jun 2013 #34

We need to keep a sharp eye on new and revised history textbooks as they are released. tridim Jun 2013 #6

He'll be listed in Newspeak as #666 instead of #44. freshwest Jun 2013 #20

Oh boy... Scurrilous Jun 2013 #7

Birther FAIL Initech Jun 2013 #8

I'll give her the benifit of the doubt, she could just be ignorant. n/t Ganja Ninja Jun 2013 #9

As somebody posted above, she actually wrote about the birther crap n2doc Jun 2013 #10

anyone who would write such crap simply is not credible Skittles Jun 2013 #11

Yahoo! Won't Even Comment? DallasNE Jun 2013 #13

Birthers just double down. NutmegYankee Jun 2013 #15

"ancestors"? neglecting his Irish roots. Ireland should be all in her face. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2013 #18

That's pretty great that he can meet his relatives like that. Can you imagine okaawhatever Jun 2013 #28

tweeted ms. hartman SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2013 #17

The reader comments at the WaPo make my head hurt. The Stupid.. it burns... Hekate Jun 2013 #21

Maybe it was just a sly joke struggle4progress Jun 2013 #22

Or maybe she's a moron tkmorris Jun 2013 #23

Links upthread indicate she wrote stories debunking the birther crap struggle4progress Jun 2013 #24

It looks like a mistake. Strange that nobody apologized. Makes you wonder. Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #26

It just goes on and on. One smear fails, bring back an old one. graham4anything Jun 2013 #27

Since she had a reasonable and informed story on the birthers, i'll assume it was okaawhatever Jun 2013 #29