This is not like âCrossing Delancey,â when Amy Irving had to get past the fact that the guy she actually wanted to be with was a pickle maker and not a writer like sheâd envisioned herself with. Not many people are going to be able to compartmentalize and set aside the idea that women who have abortions should be hanged. It takes dominion everywhere, that suggestion. Itâs different from being a pickle man.
Attempt at ass-covering fails to cover ass because ass is too big to cover.
âLate yesterday afternoon, information came to our attention that has caused us to reconsider this relationship,â Atlantic editor-in-chief Goldberg wrote in a memo to employees on Thursday.
Umm, WTF? This sentiment on Williamson's part was exposed and publicized within about ten minutes of his announced hiring.
Late yesterday afternoon? Idjit.For those who believe abortion is murder this is the logical conclusion. The joke is that people who believe this way also believe they are âpro life.â
Pretty weaksauce letter here, but Iâll take what bastapasta i can get.
Some women should be hanged for NOT having an abortion. Iâm looking at you, Mrs. Coulter!!
Even if it had been just the tweet, he still shouldnât have been hired. As @mattinpa points out, that kind of sentiment isnât just a one-off, spur of the moment, hip and edgy tweet.
To tweet something that vile, you must believe it to be not vile. So yeah, Kev, you deserve this.
Plus, think of all the buck-raking you can do being a martyr to the dreaded PC speech police.
A-hole.
Williamson turns out to be too vile for the readership of The Atlantic. Quelle Surprise! I bet every woman reader was revolted.
Good!
Credit is evidently due to Sharon Kann at Mediamatters, who reported the 2014 podcast yesterday, sinking the âone lousy tweetâ argument.
Love that movie. Loved Joan Micklin Silverâs movies. Hester Street was the best I thought. But she got mad points from me for having one of the Roach sisters in Crossing Delaney.
Today is a two-fer:
Life is strange. Advocate hanging for having an abortion and youâre disqualified from writing for a mainstream magazine.
Brag about freely committing sexual assault, followed by bragging about how you get away with it through a combination of wealth and notoriety, and youâre deemed qualified to be President of the United States.
But I have come to the conclusion that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talentsâŚ
The best fit for his talents would be as âthe defendant.â
Soup Nazi voice: No conservative/pundit/asshole-welfare for YOU!
These insane anti-abortionists desperately seek some sort of âauthorityâ for their brutal stance on harming these women; so, naturally, they look to the bible since they wrongly claim that itâs the only âtruthâ. What they blithely ignore (or donât know) is the bible is crystal clear about The Supreme Tyrant killing the unborn, infants and even the mothersâŚall because the Supreme Tyrant is miffed at its rebellious creations (in this case, the Samarians). Hosea 13:16 destroys anyoneâs attempt to say the Supreme Tyrant is anti-abortion. If itâs good enough for the invisible man in the sky, itâs okay for us mortals. Glad they fired this a-hole; but, heâll be right back on the horse at some other medieval media outlet that will perpetuate the Big Lie about abortion being contrary to âgodâs willâ.
Way too fucking little, way too fucking late, Atlantic. Obviously you still think that hiring reich-wing racist misogynists to express their opinions is an excellent idea and that just mentioning hanging women for the crime of exercising bodily autonomy is no bar to employment as a âcolumnist.â
Shame on you, Atlantic. SHAME.
You know, if youâre going to start referencing the Bible on this board we expect some talk about smiting.
Maybe they thought, âHey, that excuse is working for Scott Pruitt.â