Apologies from the Patriot-News
At least around these parts, it would be career suicide, not to mention just plain wrong, to make false and offensive stereotypes about Irish Catholics being drunks, Jews being stingy or Muslims being terrorists in a newspaper blog. But Pennsylvania Patriot-News' Washington correspondent Brett Lieberman apparently doesn't see it that way.
His recent item about Mitt Romney's faith was simply "satire" he says.
Lieberman wrote in a blog post on his newspaper's site Wednesday that Romney would drop into Pennsylvania for a fund-raising event, "but you'll be hard pressed to see the GOP presidential candidate or his 17 wives."
Lieberman, who calls Romney "the Morman candidate [sic]," adds later that "there's yet another opportunity to spy one of his wives" at another fund-raising event as well.
Romney's spokesman Kevin Madden quickly dialed up Lieberman to complain.
"What you did was essentially slander a person and make an offensive remark about someone in reference to their faith," Madden said.
"That's sort of what we do most every day," Lieberman responded in another post, apologizing and saying it was an attempt at satire.
"The bottom line, as we told Madden, we apologize if anybody was offended," Lieberman wrote. "That wasn't our intent."
Heads-up Brett: Mormons don't like to be stereotyped as weirdo polygamists.
-- Thomas Burr
His recent item about Mitt Romney's faith was simply "satire" he says.
Lieberman wrote in a blog post on his newspaper's site Wednesday that Romney would drop into Pennsylvania for a fund-raising event, "but you'll be hard pressed to see the GOP presidential candidate or his 17 wives."
Lieberman, who calls Romney "the Morman candidate [sic]," adds later that "there's yet another opportunity to spy one of his wives" at another fund-raising event as well.
Romney's spokesman Kevin Madden quickly dialed up Lieberman to complain.
"What you did was essentially slander a person and make an offensive remark about someone in reference to their faith," Madden said.
"That's sort of what we do most every day," Lieberman responded in another post, apologizing and saying it was an attempt at satire.
"The bottom line, as we told Madden, we apologize if anybody was offended," Lieberman wrote. "That wasn't our intent."
Heads-up Brett: Mormons don't like to be stereotyped as weirdo polygamists.
-- Thomas Burr
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