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Leonard Shapiro has received hundreds of e-mails about his “[Sean] Taylor‘s Death Is Tragic but Not Surprising” column. The Washington Post sports scribe says: “This is the most I’ve gotten for anything since I started doing the column. Every time I click over, there are three or four new ones, many of them starting with ‘Mr. Shapiro, you heartless, gutless prick.'” Washington Times sportswriter John Mitchell went on the radio and called Shapiro a “racist, conniving skunk.”
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WT’s Mitchell calls WP’s Shapiro “a racist, conniving skunk”
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