The lady has got nerve and stands up for what she believes. I predict she lands on her feet.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...fter-suspension.html

A conservative columnist who was suspended by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after she defended the National Rifle Association from comparisons to ISIS fired back with her resignation and a series of targeted tweets.

The newspaper on Friday suspended Stacy Washington after a column entitled "Guns and the Media" disputed an anti-NRA article that argued since more Americans die from guns than from ISIS, the Second Amendment advocacy group is the greater danger.

“[W]hen has a member of the NRA ever decapitated, set on fire, tossed from a rooftop or otherwise terrorized another American? The linkage is not only rife with improper context; it is false on its face,” Washington wrote in her column, which also decried the lack of conservatives in U.S. newsrooms. “This failure to represent the opposing, especially conservative, view is an increasingly apparent deficit in the news reporting apparatus in our country.”

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asserts that Washington was not suspended for the views expressed in her column, but for failing to disclose her promotional work and professional affiliation with the NRA. Washington has appeared several times as a co-host and commentator on “Cam & Company” on NRA TV and contributed to an NRA documentary in August 2016. However, she has never been paid by the NRA.

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“Her active promotional activities and professional association with the National Rifle Association represented an unacceptable conflict of interest in her most recent column, which resulted in our suspension of her work,” Tod Robberson, the Post-Dispatch’s editorial page editor, wrote in a response to Washington’s suspension and quitting.

Robberson added: “Columnists are expected to fully disclose conflicts of interest when writing about topics where such a conflict might arise. We apply this standard regardless of the lobbying or advocacy group being written about in a column.”

Following her suspension last Friday, Washington mounted a Twitter broadside at her Post-Dispatch editors, insisting she is not a paid “shill” for the NRA and noting the irony of a column calling out the lack of conservatives in the mainstream media getting a conservative suspended from a mainstream newspaper.

"What they’re losing, according to their own readers, is the juxtaposition between what their current editorial side is putting out, which is coming from the Democratic side, from the left, and then someone on the right," Washington told the Riverfront Times.

"I’m not ashamed that I’m an NRA supporter, a Bible-thumper, that I love Jesus Christ. I’m all the way out there. There's nothing else that I can do to articulate my perspective any more clearly on where I stand."

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“Her active promotional activities and professional association with the National Rifle Association represented an unacceptable conflict of interest in her most recent column, which resulted in our suspension of her work,” Tod Robberson, the Post-Dispatch’s editorial page editor, wrote in a response to Washington’s suspension and quitting.

Meanwhile most every other columnist maxes out contributions to D reps and that doesn't mean jack, got it...

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
The lady has got nerve and stands up for what she believes. I predict she lands on her feet.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...fter-suspension.html

Robberson added: “Columnists are expected to fully disclose conflicts of interest when writing about topics where such a conflict might arise. We apply this standard regardless of the lobbying or advocacy group being written about in a column.”

That's cool. Where are the lists of candidate donations for every political reporter on the staff?

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“Her active promotional activities and professional association with the National Rifle Association represented an unacceptable conflict of interest in her most recent column, which resulted in our suspension of her work,” Tod Robberson, the Post-Dispatch’s editorial page editor, wrote in a response to Washington’s suspension and quitting.

That's an interesting interpretation... When I was studying the proper use of the English language, "Professional Association" implied that someone was receiving remuneration for their work.

If Ms Stacy's earlier rebuttal is accurate, she was never paid for her work with the NRA, and to the best of my knowledge was perfectly legal and moral. Last I checked, neither my nor Stacy's membership in the NRA is cause for termination nor censure.

I'm sure Mr. Robberson and the fine, upstanding newspaper for whom he works will be perfectly happy to post a detailed list of political affiliations of staff members as suggested here by others <...crickets...>

Oh, yes, Robberson is impartial and unbiased, yeah, uhm hummmm, sure, sure.

Read one of his editorials:


"Robberson: Demonizing allies is no way to advance the progressive cause"


"I write this because of the ongoing campaign among a self-appointed group of “progressives” in St. Louis to label people at this newspaper as racists and defenders of the establishment. They wouldn’t recognize a political ally if he or she hugged them and planted a big, juicy kiss on their cheeks.

If they would stop and calmly read our editorials, they would recognize that we are fighting for exactly the same causes: racial equity, uplifting the poor, reducing crime and fixing the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. We also are fighting for full accountability by our elected officials.

These have been among the basic tenets of this newspaper’s platform for more than a century. We have been persistent thorns in the side of the establishment before today’s progressives and probably their parents were even born."


http://www.stltoday.com/news/o...0b-60bc716309ae.html

hey hey...
ho ho...

the media has got to go...

She will be just fine. They said Milo was finished but they only made him stronger.

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Stacy Washington:
Christian. Wife. Mom. Army Brat. Air Force Vet. Emmy Nominated TV Chick. Radio Host

http://stacyontheright.com/

And, black, BTW.

She lists her work with the NRA on her site.

Stacy Washington is quite an impressive person. In addition to her work in print media, she has her own weekly talk radio show and she also fills in occasionally on a weekly TV show discussing local issues. She is well spoken and very informed about the issues at hand. This was a ridiculous decision that the Post made.

Stacy is awesome, been following her for a long time.

People still read newspapers? And care about their opinion pieces?

Thorn in the side? That's just around the corner from pain in the ass which would make the Post-Disgrace even prouder. Here I thought a newspaper's first order of business would be disseminating current information.

That's a principled lady. Paper's loss thanks to an idiot.

Does this mean I have a professional association with NRA because I'm a member?

Todd Robberson's previous gig was at the Dallas Morning News as editorial board writer & columnist. The DMN editorial board is no friend to conservatism or the 2nd Amendment.....

"conflict of interest"
As if MSM does not have an interest


"since more Americans die from guns than from ISIS, the Second Amendment advocacy group is the greater danger."

But who is pulling those triggers. Not NRA members and others in 2A groups I bet.

Anybody got a stat on NRA members and non-members as violent thugs and killers?

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"conflict of interest"
As if MSM does not have an interest


"since more Americans die from guns than from ISIS, the Second Amendment advocacy group is the greater danger."

But who is pulling those triggers. Not NRA members and others in 2A groups I bet.

Anybody got a stat on NRA members and non-members as violent thugs and killers?

The irony is laughable.

I had the pleasure of meeting Stacy some years ago at a small black conservative event in DC. Down to earth, easy to talk to,and even though I was not a famous person at all, we had a nice conversation about guns, calibers, and the NAACP(National Association of Assbackword Colored People). I got a good laugh from her about that. She is a very strong 2A supporter, and knows her guns.

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...even though I was not a famous person at all...

She's never been to SIGforum, so she wouldn't know about your celebrity status.

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Originally posted by Cliff:
I had the pleasure of meeting Stacy some years ago at a small black conservative event in DC. Down to earth, easy to talk to,and even though I was not a famous person at all, we had a nice conversation about guns, calibers, and the NAACP(National Association of Assbackword Colored People). I got a good laugh from her about that. She is a very strong 2A supporter, and knows her guns.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Stacy a few times as well. She's quite a gal. This is no skin off her back.

This says far more about the St. Louis Post-Disgrace than about Stacy.