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Major Newspaper Dumps George Will, Apologizes For Offensive Rape Column
Early this month, Washington Post columnist George Will wrote a column claiming that being a rape victim is now a coveted status that college women seek out. Will argued that complaints of rape and sexual assualt on college campus were overblown. He also suggested that women claiming to be raped were delusional.
Wills column is syndicated in newspapers across the country by the Washington Post, which bills him as the most influential writer in America. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has published Wills column for a number of years, has had enough. In a message today to readers, the paper announced they were dropping Will from their paper and apologized for running his column on sexual assault:
Will will be replaced in the Post-Dispatch by another Washington Post columnist, Michael Gerson.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/18/3450722/st-louis-post-dispatch-drops-george-will-rape-victims/
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)Reprehensible column from a reprehensible person.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,106 posts)Of course his column won't be on the lawn of St. Louis area residents any longer.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)since Reagan.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)he looked pretty old back in the 80s - I remember watching Will & Sam Donaldson on Sunday mornings.
betsuni
(25,128 posts)St. Louis must be glad he finally got off their lawns. Lawns around the rest of the country are envious.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)I will not renew with the Times unless they dump him too!
liberalla
(9,165 posts)Thank you Tony Messenger, Editorial Page Editor
https://twitter.com/tonymess
Zambero
(8,954 posts)He won't be appearing in the Post-Dispatch. Hopefully more to follow.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)needs to stop. It is not funny but a very serious matter and this should not be just thrown over one's shoulder and forgotten.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Martin Luther King's female relations.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)or do you have some kind of point you're trying to make?
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)Takin' out the trash!
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)babylonsister
(170,963 posts)tea and oranges
(396 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Kicking REAL DARN HIGH!!!
Now can he be removed from ABC Sunday Morning George Stephanopoulos show also?
DFW
(54,055 posts)Just not as pompous as Will
betsuni
(25,128 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)truly believe RAPE is another way for baby making.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Seems like they should be looking for gainful employment elsewhere too.
adigal
(7,581 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)to this country that I'm not sure we can ever recover.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)The Dispatch probably didn't do this until they received a shitload of thoroughly disgusting letters from rape victims. If they were, then probably every newspaper that carried the column was. So why didn't all the rest of the papers drop the column? Why, indeed?
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)And may they rot in hell, the fuckers.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- It's what Pompous Prick smells like when it goes rancid.
K&R
Overseas
(12,121 posts)MISHMASH77
(5 posts)Damn, Will was my favorite column of sheet for lining the bottom of my bird cage... my birdies ain't gonna like this..
Cha
(295,919 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Hekate
(90,195 posts)... is an exceptionally smug man. Ew.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Really? Rape victims having "privileges"? Are you fucking kidding me? Still chaps my ass.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)trublu992
(489 posts)TBF
(31,922 posts)hopefully this will send a message.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)A cut-rate William F. Buckley impersonator who was forced on America by the Nixon administration intimidating the media into adding more right-wing talking heads.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'm not sure that Gerson is much better, but surely he's not worse.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)unless of course it's starting to cost you money.
It's never the principle, it's always the money.
lark
(23,003 posts)They suck!
2banon
(7,321 posts)The editor's decision to approve that piece to go to print is just as egregious. Is he/she fired too?