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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"What do you mean, far right?" Please come CAPTION National Review's/Atlantic's Kevin Williamson!!!
Kevin ("Maybe I'll get in the cabinet!" ) Williamson is saying: "Let me set the record straight, Charles: I did not say women who have an abortion should be hung. . . . That's not in my nature. . . . I say they should be 'hanged,' because I know how to use the English language."
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Above CAPTION based on t he following piece at Media Matters:
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/04/kevin-williamson-also-said-his-podcast-people-who-ve-had-abortions-should-be-hanged/219857
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"What do you mean, far right?" Please come CAPTION National Review's/Atlantic's Kevin Williamson!!! (Original Post)
skip fox
Apr 2018
OP
"The reason I can be so anti abortion is because I'll never get pregnant: I can't get laid."
marble falls
Apr 2018
#1
"My beard glistens from the lead in the Grecian Formula, as I keep forgetting to treat my eyebrows!"
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2018
#11
marble falls
(57,405 posts)1. "The reason I can be so anti abortion is because I'll never get pregnant: I can't get laid."
Response to marble falls (Reply #1)
marble falls This message was self-deleted by its author.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)2. He looks like Rasputin in the Hellboy movie.
Sorry no caption-he is too disturbing to look at.
Johonny
(20,928 posts)3. What I said isn't misogynistic because I'd hang all the men that get 'em too
skip fox
(19,360 posts)4. K.W. continues:
"In fact, Charles, any killing not sanctioned by the state should be punished by hanging. . . . Even suicides."
Orsino
(37,428 posts)5. "Let me be perfectly clear: I am in no way sexually impotent."
"And lots of women want me, like, all the time."
skip fox
(19,360 posts)6. K.W. continues
"Ever since my mother told me she tried to miscarry me several times, I've had this thing. . . ."
skip fox
(19,360 posts)7. K.W. continues:
"That's a strange and provocative question to ask, Charles. Let me repond with an easy question to answer: where do you live, anyway?
marble falls
(57,405 posts)9. Atlantic fired Kevin this morning.....
Dear All,
Last week, I wrote you about our decision to hire Kevin Williamson. In that note, I mentioned my belief that Kevin would represent an important addition to our roster of ideas columnists, and I addressed the controversy surrounding some of his past tweeting and writing. I expressed my belief that no ones life work should be judged by an intemperate tweet, and that such an episode should not necessarily stop someone from having a fruitful career at The Atlantic.
Late yesterday afternoon, information came to our attention that has caused us to reconsider this relationship. Specifically, the subject of one of Kevins most controversial tweets was also a centerpiece of a podcast discussion in which Kevin explained his views on the subject of the death penalty and abortion. The language he used in this podcastand in my conversations with him in recent daysmade it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views. The tweet was not merely an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it. Furthermore, the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. This runs contrary to The Atlantics tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the values of our workplace.
Kevin is a gifted writer, and he has been nothing but professional in all of our interactions. But I have come to the conclusion that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways.
We remain committed to grappling with complex moral issues in our journalism. Some of our colleagues are pro-life, and some are pro-choice; we have pro-death -penalty and anti-death-penalty writers; we have liberals and conservatives. WE obviously understood that Kevin himself is pro-life when we asked him to write for us. This is not about Kevins views on abortion.
We are striving here to be a big-tent journalism organization at a time of national fracturing. We will continue to build a newsroom that is, as The Atlantics founding manifesto states, of no party or clique. We are also an organization that values a spirit of generosity and collegiality. We must strive to uphold that standard as well.
Jeff
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kevin-williamson-fired-atlantic_us_5ac66563e4b09d0a1191532b
U.S. NEWS 04/05/2018 02:41 pm ET Updated 5 minutes ago
Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says
I have come to the conclusion that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways, Editor-in-Chief
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote.
By Ashley Feinberg
In explaining Kevin Williamsons firing, Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The language he used in this podcastand in my conversations with him in recent daysmade it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views.
In an email to his staff Thursday afternoon, The Atlantics editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, announced that recently hired opinion columnist Kevin Williamson was fired after Goldberg realized that Williamson did, in fact, believe his own words that women should be hanged for having abortions.
Earlier Thursday, a company-wide event had been scheduled in which Atlantic editor Adrienne LaFrance was set to interview Williamson in front of staff, according to several Atlantic employees, but the meeting was canceled at the last minute. Goldberg announced Williamsons firing just hours later, though a similar interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates scheduled for Friday appears to be going on as planned.
This news comes just weeks after The Atlantic announced Williamsons hiring, which immediately sparked an uproar from people concerned that the publication was giving space to a man who compared a 9-year-old black child to a primate and, now most famously, said that women who get abortions should be hanged.
skip fox
(19,360 posts)12. fantastic!
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts)10. "I'm so far right I left the building!"
TheBlackAdder
(28,239 posts)11. "My beard glistens from the lead in the Grecian Formula, as I keep forgetting to treat my eyebrows!"