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Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian for saying that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann were “not concerned at all” about African Americans suffering because of Hurricane Isaac. “They’re happy to have a party with black people drowning,” Chalian was heard saying on an open mic over a break during an ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, referring to the fact that the Republican National Convention in Tampa is taking place as Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf coast, Politico reported. Yahoo responded this afternoon that “David Chalian’s statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.” Conservative media watchdog NewsBusters initially posted audio of Chalian’s remarks but identified Chalian incorrectly as an ABC employee. ABC News, where Chalian was political director until 2010, has partnered with Yahoo News for 2012 political coverage.
Yahoo Fires Newsman For “Inappropriate” Romney Comment Caught On Open Mic
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“Conservative media watchdog NewsBusters initially posted audio of Chalian’s remarks but identified Chalian incorrectly as an ABC employee.”
An understandable mistake, given the quality of Brian Ross and ABC’s output.
It’d be nice to see some heads roll at MSNBC after their whitewashing of last night, but this is a good start.
Gee, cause it’s not like George Bush and John McCain were eating birthday cake in Arizona 7 years ago when Katrina struck.
Or like Bush gave insipid interviews to Charles Gibson when he should have been in New Orleans you know, leading!
Or like after he left office his “biggest regret” regarding Katrina wasn’t the massive loss of life or the wiping out of a major city, rather his biggest regret was Kanye West correctly identifying his behavior as callous and racially biased.
Or like Rush Limbaugh and right wing hate radio didn’t celebrate the destruction because of the impact they hoped it would have on Louisiana’s political profile.
Good thing the Republicans have never been associated with behavior like THAT!
Then shouldn’t Obama be in New Orleans rather than campaigning? And how can you hold Romney responsible for what others have said? Should we hold all liberals responsible for Ellen Barkin wishing death on all those at the convention?
You are a moron.
Obama is currently campaigning while his wife goes on talk shows. Seems like he’s got the same attitude about the current hurricane as your perpetual scape goat Bush
In the U.S. no one at the moment has drowned. The only death was from someone climbing a tree according to USA Today.
Whats scary about this guy’s comment is that as a journalist you’re at least supposed to be accurate. Everyone has their bias and can’t be truly objective, but at least get the facts correct. To make stuff up like this is beyond the pale.
I guess MSNBC is the next stop for this guy.
Classy guy. What a horrible, mean-spirited thing to say.
TYPICAL, mainstream media bias against Romney and the GOP. Just sad and pathetic.
Oh, BULL. This is a political party where delegates throw peanuts at an African-American camerawoman and say “this is how we feed the animals.” It deserves whatever it gets.
Sorry, democrats behave worse during conventions.
-RnsW
The mainstream bias – as you call it – was just proven by firing the guy for things he said while thinking he was NOT on air.
And are we to assume that he has never made similar statements in the company of colleagues that were not broadcast? And that his bosses were unaware of his mindset? Please. Yahoo didn’t demonstrate objectivity by firing him, they did it to cover their own asses and maintain some semblance of credibility. This man just had a Mel Gibson moment, and, like Gibson, his prejudice didn’t just start the moment he was caught.
yahoo did the right thing. he should send his resume to MSNBC
He shouldn’t have been fired but reprimanded and made to apologize. He was STUPID not to realize he was still live, but as far as I know it is fine to hold a private opinion in the United States.
My thoughts exactly.
Of course he should be fired, he’s a NEWS man, and its not appropriate in any way to get away with these rash and irresponsible, not to mention hateful, comments
It was an off hand remark. He should have been more careful. But he was expressing a personal view with the expectation that it wasn’t being recorded. It may well be appropriate that we hold the members of the media to such high standards that they’re fired over a single error.
It would be even more appropriate if we held our politicians to a similar standard.
Politicians could learn a thing or two from how this journalist responded. Using the actual words, “I apologize.”
Did he apologize for all of the similar comments he most assuredly said before he got caught? No. He only apologized for the one he was caught saying because he was trying to save his job. Politicians already have that lesson down, so there is nothing that they could learn from him.
The headline should read: “Newsman fired for telling the truth”. The awful socially draconian richie rich republicans deserve to be called out for what they really are. I don’t feel sorry for Romney one bit.
Truthman, you seem to have no worries about Obama campaigning yet again for more cash during a hurricane. Yet, according to you, the world should stop spinning for Republicans? Double standards much?
Meanwhile, while we’re talking about #caring, please explain the behavior of people like Ellen Barkin and Samuel L Jackson wishing death on conservatives at the RNC by way of the hurricane washing them out to sea, Cher wishing rape and AIDS on people, and Roseanne wishing cancer on people on Twitter? After all, if people here are going to slander a political party over the actions of a few, they might want to treat both sides equally instead of slamming one party and covering for the other.
It just goes to show you better damn well be careful what and where you say certain stuff in today’s media technological society, or else, you deal with the consequences like this idiot just had happen to him.
Exactly. Even if you forgive the content of the statement, he demonstrated he was too stupid to be a professional journalist by letting his gums flap on a hot set.
If he’d plagiarized his comments he’d have his job back by now.
This is a terrible loss. Without good people like David we will not know how to blame George Bush for everything. If people think for themselves – without the caring leadership of people like David – they may mis-conclude and think someone else is responsible for the mess we are in!
When I read the response from Yahoo, I imagined Claude Rains’ character Captain Renault from “Casablanca” delivering it in an earnest attempt at faux shock and outrage.
David Chalain is a hard hiting, capable journalist. He takes his adversarial role seriously and does his job effectively. His off-hand remarks that got hiim fired gives us some insight into why when it comes to the present administration he chooses to suspend his adversarial responsibilties.
The point is not being caught on or off air. The context of what he said is very racist and negative. That shows a negative state of thought in todays society and its ashame so many people are tryin to justify it as so many people feel this way anyway. Its shows who is really racist today.
That is because he was caught on air. You don’t think he talked like that in meeting. They knew who he was. How he felt. He just got caught in the open