{"id":1509768,"date":"2022-06-09T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509768"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:35:14","slug":"same-wapo-that-suspended-reporter-over-sexist-retweet-once-hired-a-gang-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/same-wapo-that-suspended-reporter-over-sexist-retweet-once-hired-a-gang-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Same WaPo That Suspended Reporter Over Sexist Retweet Once Hired A Gang Rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsame-wapo-that-suspended-reporter-over-sexist-retweet-once-hired-a-gang-rapist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/washington-post\">Washington Post<\/a> just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-reporter-suspended-without-pay-after-coworker-criticizes-him-for-retweeting-a-joke\">suspended a reporter<\/a>\u00a0for retweeting a mildly sexist joke, but in the 1990s, it employed a self-professed gang rapist who wrote about his prior exploits in the newspaper\u2019s own pages.<\/p>\n<p>Ace reporter Dave Weigel, currently serving a month-long suspension without pay for the retweet, must marvel at the treatment afforded Nathan McCall, his predecessor at the far-left broadsheet. McCall began a decade-long stint at the paper in 1989, 11 years after he was released from prison for holding up a McDonald\u2019s. By his own admission, McCall\u2019s treatment of women was far worse than passing along a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe perfected the art of luring babes into those kinds of traps,\u201d McCall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/weekly-standard\/makes-me-wanna-holler\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in his 1994 memoir, \u201cMakes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America,\u201d excerpts of which the Post published. \u201cWe ran a train at my house when my parents were away. We ran many at Bimbo\u2019s crib because both his parents worked. And we set one up at Lep\u2019s place and even let his little brother get in on it. He couldn\u2019t have been more than eight or nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we have a 16-part thread in which she attacks colleagues &#038; characterizes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@washingtonpost<\/a> as a sexist,trauma-inducing hell-scape. Sexist? Dave Weigel lost a month\u2019s salary for one dumb (albeit funny) retweet. Felicia has infinite license to embarrass, bully, shame &#038;harass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fdSB5H1A5v\">https:\/\/t.co\/fdSB5H1A5v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CHSommers\/status\/1534930065808625671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCall\u2019s hiring at the newspaper that broke Watergate was a story of redemption. He claimed to have turned his life around during a twelve-year prison sentence, during which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanmccall.net\/biography\/its-me-against-the-world\/\">read<\/a> Karl Marx and Malcolm X, but remained gripped by grievance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1991\/02\/05\/hope-for-a-dying-generation\/ca8c0f7f-c88a-425c-9393-2c4699839580\/\">resenting<\/a> \u201csuggestions that blacks enjoy being \u2018righteous victims.\u2019\u201d McCall worked his way up, serving stints at the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before landing the prestigious gig.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper had no qualms about having a reporter on staff who, by his own admission, had committed serious crimes earlier in his life. In fact, in 1991 he wrote an article for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanmccall.net\/articles\/dispatches-from-a-dying-generation\/\">Post<\/a> that foreshadowed his soon-to-come memoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a shoplifting charge, to stealing an ice-cream truck, to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and, ultimately, to armed robbery, I\u2019ve had my share of clashes with the law\u2026 When I was 19, in a running rivalry with some other thugs, I shot a man in the chest at point-blank range,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The paper granted McCall a leave of absence to write his autobiography, which included disturbing recollections of taking part in gang-rapes of girls as young as 13. The Post later ran excerpts from the book.<\/p>\n<p>McCall, who is currently a lecturer in the Department of African-American Studies at Atlanta\u2019s Emory University, left the Post in 1998, according to a resume. But the paper continued to publish pieces he contributed, including one lambasting then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanmccall.net\/washington-post\/obamas-sister-souljah-moment-2\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> in 2011 for telling blacks to \u201cstop complaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A decade after that article ran, Weigel was suspended for retweeting a joke that claimed, \u201cEvery girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it\u2019s polar or sexual.\u201d The suspension came after Felicia Sonmez, a national reporter, complained of sexism. For days, she lashed out that the Washington Post management protects sexist behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have any idea of the torrent of abuse I\u2019m facing right now?\u201d Sonmez wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, the Harvard grad cited that a Twitter account with 46 followers had written: \u201cHow can someone be so privileged that the biggest drama of their life was some tweet?\u201d the critic wrote. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t know actual sexism if it slapped your stupid face.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post just suspended a reporter\u00a0for retweeting a mildly sexist joke, but in the 1990s, it employed a self-professed gang rapist who wrote about his prior exploits in the newspaper\u2019s own pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1509771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}