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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/4/2007 12:52:40 PM
Title: Sufficiently embarrassed?
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From CHARLES KAISER: In the first debate among Republican candidates for president last night, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson was asked by Politico's John Harris, "If a private employer finds homosexuality immoral, should he be allowed to fire a gay worker?"

Thompson answered: "I think that is left up to the individual business. I really sincerely believe that that is an issue that business people have got to make their own determination as to whether or not they should be." Harris seemed surprised: "OK, so the answer is yes?" Thompson replied, "Yes."

Today, Thompson was sufficiently embarrassed to retract his answer on CNN: "That's never been my position," the candidate said, adding that discrimination isn't acceptable.

Will the gay and straight reporters and editors who covered the debate for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times be equally embarrassed, because they decided Thompson's original, outrageous answer didn't warrant a mention in any of their newspapers this morning? (Thompson's startling declaration, "Washington changed us," was important enough to make it into the Post.) [Permalink]

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