June 4, 2009
Politics Writer Fired by AOL for Writing About HateF*ckGate [Dan Collins]

Story at News Busters. Remember, it’s not writing the sick thing that’s bad, it’s pointing it out.

Caleb Howe fired on same pretext. Congratulations, AOL, you just became relevant again, as a prime example of journalistic douchebaggery.

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  1. Comment by The Castrated Republicans on 6/4 @ 8:33 pm #

    Journalism in a nutshell.

  2. Comment by happyfeet on 6/4 @ 8:42 pm #

    oh. The dumbass AOL hoochie who shitcanned Tommy is whining and mewling that her dirty socialist Rock God didn’t go to bat enough for teh poor poor muslim womens. You think Melinda Henneberger might could be an AOL dirty socialist propaganda whore? I do.

  3. Comment by newrouter on 6/4 @ 8:42 pm #

    rape, assassinating bush these folks are crazed like fuckin’ obama or osama

  4. Comment by sdferr on 6/4 @ 8:43 pm #

    Huh, here I thought AOL had shriveled up into a tiny mote and blew away one day, never to be found again.

  5. Comment by Topsecretk9 on 6/4 @ 8:48 pm #

    Does Hef have naked pictures in compromising positions of everyone in the news business or something? If a republican looks cross eyed at someone it’s 24/7 news saturation, but whenever liberals are associated with a pretty significant news story they all decide it’s not something they want to address and then they start muzzling all their writers all nazi style.

    What a bunch of pussies.

  6. Comment by Topsecretk9 on 6/4 @ 8:53 pm #

    oh. The dumbass AOL hoochie who shitcanned Tommy is whining and mewling that her dirty socialist Rock God didn’t go to bat enough for teh poor poor muslim womens. You think Melinda Henneberger might could be an AOL dirty socialist propaganda whore? I do.

    Huh. Suddenly a progressive woman cares about the treatment of Muslim woman. Sheesh.

  7. Comment by happyfeet on 6/4 @ 9:12 pm #

    This is Tommy’s blog what got fired. It links to his Flickr account where you can see a lovely picture of Shelley Hack. I’m vaguely recollecting this guy being that guy Cap’n Ed interviewed at CPAC and Cap’n Ed said he was a very cool guy for a dirty socialist and Cap’n Ed is quite sensible when he’s not having one of his spells.

  8. Comment by happyfeet on 6/4 @ 9:15 pm #

    Here is Cap’n Ed and he’s very lucid and you can see him interview Tommy C.

  9. Comment by Pablo on 6/4 @ 9:25 pm #

    Does Hef have naked pictures in compromising positions of everyone in the news business or something?

    I think Hef spends most of his day trying to remember where he left the Viagra.

  10. Comment by JD on 6/4 @ 9:38 pm #

    Someone got fired for criticizing the hatefuck article? Are you fucking kidding me?

  11. Comment by Joe on 6/4 @ 10:09 pm #

    Journalism has nothing to do with it, it good old conflict of interest: “Has the fact that AOL’s parent company, Time Warner, has a business relationship with Playboy may have affected their editorial decisions? After all Time Warner is a major national distributor of Playboy TV through their cable company.”

    Old Hugh* may seem like he is a lovable old horndog, but he definitely knows how to hold a grudge.

    Heffner of course, although you could say the same about Hewitt.

  12. Comment by geoffb on 6/4 @ 10:11 pm #

    Never quote or write about something that the left wishes to hide under the rug. Especially don’t do so accurately, in context and verbatim.

  13. Comment by Joe on 6/4 @ 10:17 pm #

    The list of the most important bloggers in the entire world!

    It is actually more telling who is NOT on the list.

  14. Comment by JD on 6/4 @ 10:18 pm #

    That douchebag DAve never paid up on his bet yesterda. SHOCKA

  15. Comment by happyfeet on 6/4 @ 10:18 pm #

    AOL is being spun off and the cable unit is already spun off. TW still has a good bit of interest in it – probably over 50% I think still, but TW units have never been notably synergistic or cooperative, especially not AOL cause the rest of Time Warner hates them. It doesn’t quite add up. I don’t see the Playboy TV, which is a sort of ppv thing I think, saying hey we’ll not want to be carried on your stupid cable system where we make our monies if you don’t shut the hell up about that douchebag writer in the Playboy magazine unit which is not our unit but we are very very supportive of them.

    Something else is going on.

  16. Comment by sdferr on 6/4 @ 10:31 pm #

    What I’d guess is going on is Melinda Henneberger or Margot Hemmingway or whatever her name is, is just as governed in every respect by her ideology as anyone you’ld care to meet. Or as that wretched Rosa Brooks person, say.

  17. Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque on 6/4 @ 10:35 pm #

    AOL == irrelevant.

  18. Comment by Mr. Grumpy on 6/4 @ 10:41 pm #

    Caleb Howe just tweeted that he got fired too. For defending Christopher on his own blog.

    http://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/2039002133

  19. Comment by The Castrated Republicans on 6/4 @ 10:46 pm #

    Joe,

    Conflicts of interest and grudges are journalism. It isn’t any thing else. Probably never was.

  20. Comment by dash rendar on 6/4 @ 10:51 pm #

    Who is this Howe character?

  21. Comment by serr8d on 6/4 @ 10:59 pm #

    Finally back up, Caleb Howe’s missing post (with the screenshots).

  22. Comment by sdferr on 6/4 @ 11:00 pm #

    dash, here you go. If you scroll down you’ll find screencaps of the original Playboy article that got all this stuff going.

  23. Comment by serr8d on 6/4 @ 11:04 pm #

    Heh. Quick Draw!

  24. Comment by dash rendar on 6/4 @ 11:10 pm #

    Wait what am I missing here what did Howe get fired from if he’s at redstate? Dang handhelds not good for intertubes link clicking. Quick draw was sick I think they invented twitter for handhelds.

  25. Comment by Mr. Grumpy on 6/4 @ 11:37 pm #

    Howe was also a politics writer for AOL until earlier this evening.

  26. Comment by bh on 6/4 @ 11:46 pm #

    If I was running this blog, I’d put Dan on Shakes, thor on Marlowe, and Jeff, batting third, writes an essay on population drift as an odd genetic analogy for his overarching interpretative theme. Please to write an essay.

    Okay. Go!

  27. Comment by bh on 6/4 @ 11:51 pm #

    Ehhh.

    You can never go home again.

  28. Comment by geoffb on 6/4 @ 11:59 pm #

    Now I know there really were 11 and I didn’t miss one between #10 and #12.

  29. Comment by maggie katzen on 6/5 @ 12:04 am #

    This is Tommy’s blog what got fired.

    that was some good advice you gave him there, happyfeet.

  30. Comment by happyfeet on 6/5 @ 12:14 am #

    Thanks! It’s these whippersnappers with their crazy ideas, maggie. It hurts my heart that so often they have to learn the hard way.

  31. Comment by maggie katzen on 6/5 @ 12:29 am #

    alls I know is tommy set Treacher off a few nights ago, cause xtopher didn’t approve of this joke.

  32. Comment by LTC John on 6/5 @ 6:59 am #

    These two firings will be fun to recall when some troll comes in whining about “censorship” if their commentary at someone’s blog gets deleted or is not allowed…

  33. Comment by Diecast Dude on 6/5 @ 7:09 am #

    Slightly off topic, but if anyone wants to help Tommy Christopher or Caleb Howe out they’ll hire them to do proofreading at Newbusters:

    AOL News has been bending over backwards lately to make sure that the do not cover the controversy surrounding Playboy.com writer Guy Cimbalo’s vile attack on conservative women.

    Who’s “the?”

  34. Comment by happyfeet on 6/5 @ 7:17 am #

    I think the anaphorical antecedent thinger is AOL NEWS is how I read that.

  35. Comment by happyfeet on 6/5 @ 7:20 am #

    That was a good joke I thought about the Empire State Building cause the thing about Barack Obama’s skeezey woman is that keeping it real is what she is a lot averse to. Because she’s a farce.

  36. Comment by Bob Reed on 6/5 @ 8:30 am #

    What do you expect out a twisted operation like Time-Warner…

  37. Comment by MarkD on 6/5 @ 9:05 am #

    I’d sell the stock, if I still had any.

  38. Comment by Joe on 6/5 @ 11:46 am #

    Megyn unloads on Playboy.

  39. Comment by Joe on 6/5 @ 4:08 pm #

    Why that AOL writer was fired.

  40. Comment by Durrrrrrrr on 6/5 @ 4:24 pm #

    Slightly off topic, but if anyone wants to help Tommy Christopher or Caleb Howe out they’ll hire them to do proofreading at Newbusters

    What is this “Newbusters” you refer to in your comment about needing proofreaders, Dipshit Dude?

  41. Comment by happyfeet on 6/5 @ 7:31 pm #

    Michelle Obama Channels Myrna Loy

    Posted:
    06/3/09

    Filed Under:Woman Up

    12 Comments +

    Oh Walter, the New York you evoke is the one I wanted to live in but was born too late for, where men not only wore ties, but women – OK, one woman, Myrna Loy – in a veiled hat, gloves and an amazing suit, would meet her husband for cocktails after their solo adventures in sleuthing, or on their way to a party where everyone would be gathered around the piano singing. Then, at evening’s end, she would sashay to the telephone in her silk robe with shoulder pads and tell room service, “We’re hungry again.”

    So when I saw those images of the Obamas out on the town last Saturday night, I only had eyes for Michelle in her little black dress, spiffed up for the theatre as God intended. Now, if a woman not the FLOTUS had shown up for a show in that same outfit, New Yorkers would have averted their eyes, assumed that she was from New Jersey and probably arrived in a white stretch limo. But if anyone can raise the bar, she can.

    Another date-night surprise: I did not have her down as the two-martini type; we’ve so focused on her perfectionism and all-business childhood of getting up early to practice the piano that we haven’t seen a lot of Michelle at play, and that, too, was a welcome sight.

    As you say, the only thing missing was a man who looked like he was attending the same event his wife was; please, Mr. P, shape up in this regard. If Michelle were half the stern task-mistress she was made out to be during the campaign, she would have insisted, of course, and the POTUS wouldn’t have to hear it from us.

    That’s more from that AOL weirdo Henneberger that fired the Tommy person. AOL is as rife with the Obamaporn as NPR but this woman is just nasty.

  42. Comment by tehag on 6/6 @ 4:54 am #

    I don’t understand the fuss. This “hate fuck” thing has been going on a long time. I recall reading “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” in early 1980s.

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  44. Comment by Vlad the Impala on 6/8 @ 3:11 pm #

    That’s it.

    I’m not reading the articles in that magazine any more.

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