Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. The times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. We had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. She understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the Editorial Board moving forward. Interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. When some of miss nortons old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an Internet Troll which works for a neonazi website she ended stepping down that same day. In that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. We reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. Go to smerconish. Com and a
jeong should open up to it and at least give us an honest and full explanation or apology. are you going in the public do main that this should have precluded her hire. i think when you play this game, very often innocent people get shot down the way quinn norton was. we should draw a fine line and i don t think people should get fired from media organizations unless they re saying something when they re currently employed and twitter is a medium where the context are very important and people are trolling and very often tongue in cheek and often misunderstood and i would not preclude firing her from the times, but again, the times standard here is indefensible because it did not have that bright line. it fired kwen norton before firing her and if you were to fire two of them, sarah jeong or
quinn norton in terms of the merit of who they should have kept and clearly it was norton and clearly they re defending sarah jeong and threw quinn norton overboard. i thought through the business ramifications and the way it would impact their brand and play into the hands of those who denigrate the times which i disagree with. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. what are your thoughts? go to smerconish and i will read your responses throughout the course of the program. what have we got? here is a person who is so overtly biased and eshg mobilely disordered in her thinking that the only job the new york times should ever give her is selling papers on the street corner. i want to be fair and see the totality of the record and i can get a weak attempt at humor. watching that ridiculous animated film about big bald
the times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. we had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. she understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the editorial board moving forward. interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. when some of miss norton s old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an internet troll which works for a neo-nazi website she ended stepping down that same day. in that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. we reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. go to smerconish.com and answer this survey question. should sarah jeong s twitter
the top of that f the police. maybe it s intended as a joke in that instance. i notice that there were others, many more, in fact, one relative to ferguson which the context, katherine, can you put the ferguson up one as well? teaching moment music, maybe maybe the lesson of ferguson is f most police. that doesn t seem to be in response to some twitter troll. and the same with the other anti-white tweets. i don t know how the times can justify firing quinn norton when we look back at her tweets and she re-tweeted the n word and it was someone using the n word sat iricily, and it was enough for her to be ousted from the times, and i don t know how you stand by sarah jeong and fire quinn norton. it goes to the point that there s a rank hypocrisy here.