POOR TASTE AWARD OF THE WEEK
…goes to Washington Post writer Emily Messner. Reader E.D. wrote yesterday:
Please see Emily Messner’s column at the Washington Post. In it, she talks about conservatives doing touchdown dances at Judge Alito’s nomination (the bottom of the 2nd paragraph). In the third paragraph Messner writes in parenthesis:
“Nonetheless, it is amusing to imagine Charles Krauthammer doing a touchdown dance.”
After readers informed the clueless Messner that Krauthammer has been a paraplegic since 1972, Messner substituted Krauthammer’s name with George Will’s. Messner added a footnote:
*My sincerest apologies for the Krauthammer touchdown dance remark. It was unintentionally insensitive — I had no idea he was disabled.
On the one hand, as Mark at Marked Up points out, it is a good thing that Messner “had no idea” about Krauthammer’s physical condition. On the other hand, she’s a Washington Post politics writer, for God’s sake.
And imagine the uproar if a conservative writer had made the touchdown remark about Max Cleland or the late Christopher Reeve…
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