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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
I can't see where wishing someone AIDS or wishing their Grandchildren AIDS can be put into any kind of context. If Bret Hume (for example) had wished Hillary Clinton or Chelsea Clinton a harmful disease we all would have been calling for his termination (myself included). I see a double standard.
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Thanks for making that determination for the rest of us so that we needn't trouble our little heads about coming to a conclusion on our own.
Actually I can see how it could be put into a context -- as an attempt at humor rather than a serious wish that someone become ill, for example. Not saying I would find it humerous in the least, but that would be some context that indicates she didn't mean it seriously and was instead trying to make a humerous point about political karma.
It's not a double standard unless it is the same standard that is perportedly being applied in different ways by the same person or persons in reasonably contemporeneous time. Any idea what the policy was in 1995? Any idea whether any action was taken?
Vivian Schiller, the current president/CEO of NPR (and the person who fired Juan Williams) came that position in Janaury 2009. Can you identify similar statements from others that she has overlooked? If you can, then we can talk about possible double standards.
Prior to Schiller, Kevin Klose was the president/CEO -- 1998 to 2006. In 2006, Ken Stern was named CEO, while Klose remained president, so the Totenberg comment doesn't even fall under his/their tenure. You have to go back to Klose's predeccesor, Delano Lewis, for that. But you say that in order to avoid a charge of double standards, current president/CEO Schiller can't take any action that would be inconsistent with what Lewis did (or failed to do) 15 years ago, even if Lewis failed to do something he should have done? Not buying it.
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