From the San Francisco Chronicle: Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney
and his wife, at the GOP convention in Florida while a hurricane was
approaching Louisiana, were "happy to have a party with black
people drowning."
Company spokeswoman Anne Espiritu said Wednesday that David Chalian's remark was inappropriate and does not represent Yahoo's views.
"We
have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to
Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offend,"
she said.
Chalian
made the remark during a hot-mic moment before Yahoo began its live
coverage of the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday evening. Yahoo
is streaming coverage in association with ABC News.
The
website Newsbusters posted a copy of the video and the audio. The video
showed Ann and Mitt Romney while the audio picked up background
conversation, not all of it intelligible, about the GOP convention
taking place as Hurricane Isaac hit the Louisiana coast.
Someone
makes a remark, "they're not concerned at all." In a clearer voice,
Chalian says, "they are happy to have a party with black
people drowning."
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