Well, you were all wrong. In August, the Twitterverse started a hashtag game to find #DavidChaliansNextJob after the Yahoo! News bureau chief was fired for describing the Romneys as “happy to have a party when black people drown” — a reference to the close timing of the Republican National Convention and Hurricane Isaac making landfall.
Politico announced today that Chalian has joined the site as vice-president of video programming. “David screwed up, admitted he screwed up and paid the price of losing his job for screwing up,” explained Politico editor-in-chief John Harris.
"Romney's happy to have a party while black people drown." RT @pwgavin David Chalian joins POLITICO as Vice President of Video Programming
— China is lying (@jtLOL) October 12, 2012
Politico Doubles Down on Liberalism, Hires Disgraced David Chalian of ‘Black People Drowning’ Fame http://t.co/iMiwQBac
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) October 12, 2012
Gwen Ifill and others rallied around Chalian after his remarks, and “real journalists” are happy to see the reporter back in business. After all, the New York Times considers him “one of the fairest.” Fairest? As in white? RACIST!!111
Smart move by Politico to hire @davidchalian as VP of video programming. One of the fairest and best in the business. http://t.co/K3Iar0qy
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) October 12, 2012
Smart move by Politico hiring @davidchalian. One if the best out there. http://t.co/2H7Sh42T
— adam nagourney (@adamnagourney) October 12, 2012
Congrats and best of luck to David Chalian on joining Politico. Known him a long time. Good man. http://t.co/srqOgLCc
— Kevin Madden (@KevinMaddenDC) October 12, 2012
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The great Dave Chalian named a VP at Politico, thus ending the dumbest faux media outrage of the summer.
— Andrew Kirtzman (@andrewkirtzman) October 12, 2012
In June, Politico suspended Joe Williams, who tweeted a vulgar joke about Ann Romney and claimed Mitt Romney only feels comfortable around “white folks.”
NOTHING against David Chalian at all but who can look at @Politico's hiring/firing decisions & say white privilege doesn't exist? @elonjames
— ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) October 12, 2012
.@joecoscarelli How does @Politico reconcile hiring David Chalian after firing Joe Williams for what's arguably a less incindiary statement?
— ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) October 12, 2012
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