CHARLAMANGE THE GOD TAGS KEVIN HUNTER AS DONKEY OF THE DAY (“DO DO BROWN” FROM BROWNSVILLE”):
CHARLAMANGE SAYS KEVIN USED WENDY’S MONEY TO BUY SHARINA HUDSON A PUSH PRESENT (GOLD FERRARI)....WENDY HAD IT TOWED.
CHARLAMANGE REVEALED IT WAS KEVIN HUNTER WHO FED LIES TO THE MEDIA ABOUT CHARLAMANGE BEING A RAPIST.
CHARLAMANGE WRAPPED UP HIS “DONKEY OF THE DAY” SEGMENT BY STATING THAT KEVIN SHOULD HAVE BEEN KISSING WENDY’S FEET INSTEAD OF KISSING SHARINA HUDSON’S BUTT.
I CONCUR.
HATS OFF TO WENDY & CHARLAMANGE & ARMON WIGGINS :-)
BE CAREFUL HOW YOU DISRESPECT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY YOUR LEGAL WIFE.
KARMA IS A B___TCH.
ALIENATION OF AFFECTION
Post Sources: THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Daily Mail, Youtube
***** Charlamagne Slams Kevin Hunter Amid Wendy Williams Divorce Scandal
Donkey of The Day For April 17th, 2019 goes to none other than Kevin Hunter the soon to be ex husband of Wendy Williams.
While there are many reports going around, it has been confirmed that Wendy Williams served up a whole plate of divorce papers to Kevin Hunter the other day in their apartment, it was then soon after this that he issued an apology to Williams breaking his silence for the first time saying: "28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn't realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world," the statement began. "I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally".
Adding on to the drama it was also reported that Hunter was fired from her his executive producer roll on The Wendy Williams Show. However these reports are false but a statement from TMZ revealed his time may be up soon, "Reports that Kevin Hunter has been fired are not accurate. He has not been fired, but as we reported, it's just a matter of time. He WILL be gone from the show ... but it hasn't happened yet".
In today's Donkey of The Day Charlamagne Tha God revealed why he dislikes Kevin including reports that Hunter raped his own artist, stopping him from getting bags as well as telling DJ Envy & Angela Yee false statements about him before the BREAKFAST CLUB was formed.
WENDY WILLIAMS TOWS SHARINA HUDSON’S GOLD FERRARI KEVIN BOUGHT W/ HER MONEY:
HOW YOU DOING SHARINA THE ADULTRESS??
WIVES WHO HAVE BEEN CHEATED ON ARE CELEBRATING.
FORGIVENESS DOES NOT ELIMINATE CONSEQUENCES.
ALIENATION OF AFFECTION
KARMA IS A B__TCH.
I LOVE YOU WENDY & I’M PRAYING FOR YOUR SUCCESS.
YOU ARE MY SHERO.
Post Sources: Daily Mail, Armon Wiggins Show, ET Canada, Youtube
***** EXCLUSIVE: Wendy Williams' estranged husband Kevin Hunter apologizes in vain as he is FIRED from her show and has been given 48 hours to clear out from their marital home while the $215K Ferrari he bought for his baby mama is towed away
* Kevin Hunter was fired as executive producer on Wendy Williams' show after she served her philandering husband divorce papers last week
* The 47-year-old was also fired as Wendy's manager and he was given 48 hours to remove his belongings from their New Jersey home, a source told DailyMail.com
* The TV show host decided she had enough after Hunter's baby mama Sharina Hudson was photographed by DailyMail.com driving around a brand new Ferrari
* Hunter and Hudson had been living the high life at a hideaway in New Jersey, going for dinner dates, dressing in designer gear and driving flashy new cars
* 'Wendy saw the photos of him and Sharina on the Daily Mail... she was furious. That's what tipped her over the edge, she was like, he's gotta go', a source said
* Hunter publicly apologized in vain on Tuesday, admitting he was not 'proud of his recent actions' and was 'trying to right some wrongs'
* Hunter's statement came as the $215,000-plus gold Ferrari Portofino he gifted Hudson was seen being towed away - a day after he was hit with the papers
* Wendy was seen apartment hunting in NYC on Tuesday as she revealed Monday she was moving out of her sober living home and was ready to start a new life
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Kevin Hunter has been fired as an executive producer on his estranged wife Wendy Williams' show, as the $215K Ferrari he bought for his baby mama is towed away, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Williams decided she finally had enough of her philandering husband of nearly 22 years and served him divorce papers at her TV studio in Manhattan last Thursday.
The 47-year-old was fired from the show and as Wendy's manager, a source on the show confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The source also said Hunter had been given 48 hours to remove his belongings from their marital home in Livingston, New Jersey as she was seen apartment hunting in New York City on Tuesday.
Wendy reached her tipping point after learning Hunter had been living the high life with his decade-long mistress Sharina Hudson, who gave birth last month, splurging on Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and gifting her with diamonds.
Hunter released an apology on Tuesday admitting he was not 'proud of his recent actions' and was 'trying to right some wrongs' while taking 'full accountability' for what he had done.
His groveling statement came after the flashy $215,000-plus gold Ferrari Portofino he gifted Hudson was seen being towed away - a day after Wendy hit him with the divorce papers.
The source said: 'Kevin had expected to stay on at the show and as Wendy's manager. He ran the show with an iron fist, he was the guy who kept the vultures away.
'But when Wendy saw the photos of him and Sharina last week on the Daily Mail going out for dinner and her driving around in a Ferrari she was furious.
'That's what tipped her over the edge, she was like, "he's gotta go". She now wants him out of her life completely, she's given him 48 hours to clear his office and clear his belongings out of the house.
'Wendy's sister Wanda came up from Florida over the weekend and she's helping get everything in order. Wendy means business, she's cleaning house.'
A day after DailyMail.com published photos of the new Ferrari that Hunter gifted Hudson, it was loaded onto a truck and taken away.
A Ferrari dealership from Greenwich, Connecticut, picked the golden car up, as two men who appear to be helpers for Hunter looked on.
Hunter's statement on Tuesday read: '28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn't realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world.
'I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally.
I am not proud of my recent actions and take full accountability and apologize to my wife, my family and her amazing fans. I am going through a time of self-reflection and am trying to right some wrongs.
'No matter what the outcome is or what the future holds, we are still The Hunter Family and I will continue to work with and fully support my wife in this business and through any and all obstacles she may face living her new life of sobriety, while I also work on mine.
'I ask that you please give me and my family privacy as we heal. Thank you.'
On Monday, Wendy kicked off her Hot Topics segment by revealing she was just a few days away from moving out the sober living facility she has called home for the past few weeks, and is ready to start a new life for herself and her son Kevin Jr. - the son she shares with Hunter.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in early March the TV host had been living in the sober home in Queens, New York, to battle an addiction to alcohol and prescription pills, her downward spiral sparked by learning Hunter was still seeing Hudson.
Meanwhile, Hunter has been spending time with Hudson, who recently gave birth, at a hideaway in Edgewater, New Jersey.
The two seem to be living the high life, going out for dinner dates and driving new luxury vehicles.
Hunter was seen driving a new maroon convertible Rolls-Royce last Saturday to pick up Hudson and take her out to dinner, with the massage therapist proudly showing off her post baby pooch.
The 33-year-old, whose hair was freshly curled, carried a $5,200 quilted Chanel purse while wearing a chunky diamond chain necklace and diamond studs.
While Hunter treated his baby mama to a Ferrari, he seems to have also treated himself to new cars, including the luxury Rolls-Royce.
Hudson was seen driving her new sports car last Monday, exiting the flashy vehicle in a $1,260 Thom Browne tracksuit that showed off her post-baby body.
And Kevin has spared no expense on his own duds as well, seen one day in a $1,500 Fendi vest, $490 Fendi hat, $770 Fendi pants and $515 Fendi sunglasses.
The couple have been hiding out in New Jersey weeks after Hudson was secreted away to Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia to give birth in order to avoid media attention.
Hunter has been seen at the secret hideaway chauffeuring Sharina around.
Kevin was served with divorce papers from Wendy last Thursday morning at the TV studio, according to TMZ.
Extra security was hired in case Kevin, known to have a temper, got enraged on set. But there were apparently no outbursts.
The split will most likely be contested as Hunter is an executive producer on Williams' TV show and told Hudson that he couldn't afford to split from Wendy because she paid all the bills, a source previously told DailyMailTV.
In New Jersey, parties can file fault or no-fault. Fault allows a judge to dock alimony based on the seriousness of the offense. Proving will not be hard for either side in this case.
Reasons for fault include adultery, abandonment, physical or emotional abuse, and alcohol or drug abuse.
The Wendy Williams Show said in a statement: 'Wendy and her family have been a part of Debmar-Mercury for over 10 years. We respect their privacy regarding personal matters. As always, we remain committed to bringing an entertaining and topical show to our viewers.'
A personal representative for Williams said: 'Thank you to everyone for respecting the family's privacy during this time. Kevin is supportive of Wendy and they are working through this process together. No additional comment will be provided at this time.'
WENDY BRILLIANTLY ALLOWED HERSELF TO APPEAR AS AN UNDERDOG TO GAIN FREEDOM FROM ABUSE, ADULTERY, DISRESPECT, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA & BEING USED MONETARILY.
WENDY YOU ARE NOW ONE OF MY “SHEROES”.
I DON’T ADVOCATE DIVORCE EXCEPT IN EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES.
WENDY’S CIRCUMSTANCES WERE INDEED VERY EXTREME.
GOD BLESS YOU WENDY.
Post Sources: ET Canada, Fox News, Page Six, Youtube
***Wendy Williams addresses her divorce in 'Hot Topics' segment
Wendy Williams confirmed her divorce from husband Kevin Hunter on her eponymous talk show on Monday.
The 54-year-old talk show host recognized the irony of being a gossip queen while being the subject of "Hot Topics" herself.
“It’s crazy ’cause now my business is your business,” Williams said. “It’s kind of funny. Turnabouts a fair game, I get it,” she added with a chuckle.
She began by discussing her stay in a sober house, noting that she was moving out "in just a few days, you know. It'll be Wendy on her own."
“I have to tell you, you know, I’ve been dealing with issues with addiction, alcoholism, and I have a whole new life that I planned for myself and my son,” she revealed. “Believe me you, when you lay in a room with no TV and four gray walls all day … This is my life in the sober house, it’s one of the best things, honestly, that could have ever happened to me.”
Everybody has things in their life that they're embarrassed to share with the world, or they're frightened to share with the world, or they're not ready to share with the world," she said. "Addressing my sobriety, my addiction, head on has really helped me sort out every single compartment of my life. That's all. i have a committment to me and my son to come out of here better, stronger and faster than ever."
Williams and Hunter, 46, married in November 1997. They share son Kevin Jr., 19.
Last month, it was reported that Hunter fathered a love child with alleged mistress Sharina Hudson, with whom he's reportedly been linked for nearly a decade. Williams previously denied any marital discord.
The former radio host seemes to be enjoying the single life.
She batted her eyelashes and licked her lips at a photo of Cardi B's hunky security guard during her "Hot Topics" segment Monday.
"Back it up now," she told her producers when he appeared on screen. "I'm on the loose!"
WENDY WILLIAMS PROMOTES OPEN MARRIAGES; CRUSH KEVIN HUNTER & SUE SHARINA HUDSON:
ALIENATION OF AFFECTION
KEVIN HUNTER’S BRAZEN, UNASHAMED, ADULTEROUS MISTRESS SHARINA HUDSON GIVES BIRTH TO BABY GIRL:
SHARINA HAD THE BABY IN A PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL MARCH 22, 2019......KEVIN PAID CASH.
KEVIN HUNTER HOW COULD YOU DO THIS AFTER WENDY MADE YOU SUPER WEALTHY??
SHARINA OBVIOUSLY WAS POORLY REARED TO THINK IT’S ACCEPTABLE TO STEAL WENDY’S HUSBAND.
PLEASE PRAY FOR WENDY WILLIAMS.
I WOULD NOT WISH ADULTERY ON MY WORST ENEMY.
IT’S NOT OK TO BE A MISTRESS.
KARMA IS A B__TCH SHARINA.
Post Sources: Unwine With Tasha K, Instagram, Perez Hilton, Hot New Hip Hop.com, Shade Room, Twitter, Youtube
Media Mogul and Talk Show Extraordinarie Wendy Williams needs to stop promoting OPEN MARRIAGES by defending her Adulterous Husband Kevin Hunter.
Wendy needs to allow Kevin to Divorce her and she needs to Sue Kevin’s Mistress SHARINA HUDSON for Alienation of Affection.
Wendy Williams is a New Yorker who needs to Fight back!
I’m praying for Wendy to make it and not give up.
ISAIAH 54:17
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#WendyWilliams’ husband, #KevinHunter’s mistress, Sharina Hudson, has allegedly given birth to a baby girl. According to @iamunwinewithtashak, Kevin and Sharina’s child was reportedly born on Wednesday, March 22nd.
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Sharina and Kevin allegedly paid cash for their hospital proceedings. In addition, Kevin allegedly used a different name while he was at the hospital, and he’s allegedly not on the baby's birth certificate.
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As you all know, Wendy and Kevin’s alleged marital issues have been on the forefront lately. When Wendy returned from her hiatus from #TheWendyWilliams show, she addressed some of the rumors about her marriage, saying she and Kevin are goodT! We will keep y’all posted on this story
KANYE WEST PROOF OF LIFE AFTER RECENT MELTDOWN? (SACRAMENTO RANT):
NO MORE MAINSTREAM MEDIA PROPAGANDA.
IS KANYE DEAD OR ALIVE?
WHERE IS HE?
Sources: XXL Magazine, Perez Hilton, Youtube
Is it unreasonable to ask for proof that Kanye West is still alive after he ranted ILLUMINATI Secrets while performing at a recent concert in Sacramento, California??
After being yanked off stage (while ranting about the ILLUMINATI) and hospitalized, he was released seven days later.
Immediately upon his "release" the Mainstream Media claimed Kanye would need to receive closely supervised Mental Health treatment for a very long time.
The remainder of Kanye's "St Pablo" tour was also cancelled.
Then the MSM claimed Kanye and his wife Kim KHARDASHIAN are separated and Kim is preparing to divorce him.
Now the MSM is claiming that Kanye is in a studio working on a new album.
How can he be working on a new album so soon if he is "Bat Crazy"?
Enough is enough of this MSM propaganda about Kanye West!
Will the REAL Kanye West please hold a Media Press Conference to prove that he still ALIVE and SANE?
Will the REAL Kanye West please release information about where he is currently located?
You’re ready to talk and — finally — so is your spouse. But who can you trust when your heart, time and money are on the line?
Here are the 10 things your marriage counselor won’t say.
1. I have no business giving relationship advice.
Divorce rates for baby boomers have doubled in the past 20 years, with one in four couples over age 50 calling it quits by 2009, according to a study from Bowling Green State University released earlier this summer. Although overall figures have fallen in recent years, some estimates still put the divorce rate for all new marriages at roughly 50%. But couples looking to stave off a split may want to choose their expert help with care. Training and experience levels among purveyors of marriage advice run the gamut from never-took-Psych-101 to spent-more-time-in-school-than-your-doctor.
State-licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors and social workers can all offer sessions for couples, as can licensed marriage and family therapists. To earn the latter distinction, therapists are required by states to get at least a master’s degree in the discipline and a passing score on a national licensing exam, followed by a set number of client hours — from 1,500 hours in New York to 3,000 in Texas — under the supervision of another fully licensed practitioner. But pretty much anyone can hang out a shingle as a marriage coach, relationship adviser or other uniquely labeled provider of “alternative marriage counseling” — they just can’t call the services “therapy.” License or no, experts say the risk for consumers is that it’s so easy to pick a provider who doesn’t have the education or skills to solve their problems.
A license provides a baseline — the client knows that the therapist has experience and education in the field, which isn’t guaranteed with unlicensed providers, says Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, which oversees licensing. It’s no guarantee, however. Couples should ask about the provider’s overall qualifications, says Dr. Karen Ruskin, a Boston-based licensed marriage therapist and clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. For example, an unlicensed provider might well have earned a psychology degree or completed training or certification courses in relevant areas. Pastors and other religious leaders can get counseling certifications or even qualify as a state-licensed pastoral therapist.
Some licensed professionals, on the other hand, may offer services to couples as a side effort but lack marriage-specific training, she says.
Plus, many of the consumer complaints about marriage therapists that Texas receives each year are linked back to therapists who are practicing despite having an expired license, says Van Deusen.
Most state departments of health services maintain a database consumers can check to confirm a provider’s licensing status, and to see any complaints that have been logged against him or her.
2. You’re not going to make it.
Dr. John Gottman, who developed the Gottman Method of couples therapy and co-founded the Gottman Relationship Institute that certifies therapists in the method, has another claim to fame: He has said his studies in the field enable him to predict within minutes of meeting a couple whether they will eventually divorce, with better than 90% accuracy.
Just don’t expect Gottman (who wasn’t available for an interview) or any other therapist to tell you flat out, says Dr. Dave Penner, a licensed clinical psychologist and the assistant clinical director at the Gottman institute. “You don’t say to a couple, ‘Too bad, you’ve got all the predictors of divorce,’” he says.
That’s not conducive to therapy, which is about changing those behaviors, he says. (Of course, telling a couple that their chances of resolution are nil would also mean they’d stop going to — and paying for — counseling sessions.
But therapists say hiding information just to keep clients coming isn’t ethical.) A 2005 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology study found that five years after receiving eight months of therapy, half of couples said their relationships had improved. A quarter were divorced, and the remaining 25% were still having problems.
Couples may be able to pick up a few cues, however. A practitioner might point out that a couple has major challenges ahead, or is exhibiting some characteristics that can lead to divorce, says Penner.
Expect to be called out if you’re obviously coming in just to go through the motions, but not to attempt actual improvement, says Dr. Lynda Doyle, a licensed marriage therapist in Yarmis, Maine. “You can tell somebody’s already checked out of the relationship,” she says. “I’ll tell them they can do fake therapy for another five sessions if they want, or try the real thing.
3. I like your partner better than I like you.
Over the course of trying to resolve marital problems during the ‘90s, John Wilder of Midway, Ga., and his then-wife saw nine different marriage therapists. None of them helped, says Wilder, who has a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science and has since trained as a marriage coach.
His main gripe: He contends that because the counselors didn’t address problems equally, they did more harm than good.
It’s not uncommon for couples to feel like their practitioner is playing favorites, and that won’t help them solve any problems, says attorney Kenneth Altshuler, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and husband to marriage therapist Doyle. (The two say they don’t refer clients to each other.) It can also make a divorce more acrimonious.
Therapists say that most of the time, any imbalance is inadvertent. With two people sharing session time, it’s not easy for even an experienced counselor to split attention 50-50, says Doyle.
Or one person may be more comfortable with the therapist or the style of therapy than their partner, leading to a sense of unfairness. The couple’s issues can also be more weighted toward one party — say, if one has committed adultery — in a way that leads to a more imbalanced talk.
Couples shouldn’t be shy about bringing up perceived favoritism during sessions, or about asking for another referral if they feel balance isn’t restored, says Doyle.
4. I’ve got my own baggage.
Styles can vary widely among therapists, coaches and other practitioners, and that’s not something that’s typically apparent by looking at their listings in the phone book or on an insurer’s website, says Dr. Arshad Rahim, a vice president with physician data and review site HealthGrades.com.
Traditional counseling is primarily about solving the problems, but there’s also the relatively new field of “discernment counseling” that has the specific aim of helping couples decide whether to stay together or divorce. Some practitioners are more pro-marriage than others too.
The therapist’s personal history may also have an influence, says Altschuler. “I tell clients, you need to find out about the marriage counselor,” he says. “Is that person divorced, or going through a divorce?”The best approach is a direct one: Ask them, preferably before booking an appointment.
Most of the time, though, the practitioner’s approach isn’t “wrong”; it’s just not a good fit for the couple — which makes the sessions unlikely to be successful, says Rahim. Even if the couple decides to go elsewhere after one session, their bill can still amount to several hundred dollars.
Ruskin suggests asking for a free phone consultation before scheduling an appointment. “Ask them to describe how they feel marriage problems are resolved,” she says. Wilder says many coaches also offer free in-person consultations or a money-back guarantee if the couple feels the first paid session wasn’t helpful.
5. Anything you say can be used against you — in divorce court.
Something called “therapist-patient privilege” typically keeps your mental health professional from divulging details of your private sessions in a court of law or elsewhere. But that privilege applies to one-on-one relationships, says Altschuler. “When a marriage counselor sees two people, arguably there’s no confidentiality, since there are three people in the room,” he says. State law on that point varies, and unlicensed experts seeing couples often have less legal standing to claim that information revealed during their sessions was privileged. (The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s code of ethics requires therapists to disclose any limits to clients’ right of confidentiality.)
Most courts try to keep marriage counselors out of the proceedings, though, unless they are testifying to something serious, Altschuler says. Most of the cases where he’s seen a marriage therapist testify focused on admissions of abuse that were made in session. It’s more common that seeing a marriage counselor simplifies a divorce, he says, by helping a client figure out what they want and how best to proceed.
IT'S TIME TO CLOSE VA HOSPITALS & PRIVATIZE VET HEALTH CARE.
Helping Women in Abusive Marriages and Relationships become self-sufficient should be a key 2016 platform issue.
Women married to U.S. SOLDIERS and ATHLETES are frequent victims of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
There are thousands of Male U.S. Military Vets living in American society with severe MENTAL HEALTH issues.
Due to Survival skills they learned while on Active Duty, its not uncommon for Military VETS (Men) to appear Sane in public while Abusing their Wives and Children behind closed doors.
VA Hospitals do NOT screen these Military Heroes, instead they just prescribe them PILLS for the purpose of SELF-MEDICATING their Mental Health issues.
Considering the number of mega VA Hospitals Scandals under Pres OBAMA'S administration, I say it is time shut down all VA Hospitals and PRIVATIZE Health Care for Veterans.
It is also time for all VETS to receive MANDATORY Mental Health screening each time they request pills for illness, each time they are DIVORCED and each time an immediate member of their family dies via SUICIDE.
With thousands of troops now preparing to return, a new crisis may open on the domestic front. Military wife Stacy Bannerman on the husbands she’s seen transformed into domestic abusers.
"If you don't hear from me in the next 24 hours, call the police," she whispered, then hung up. My phone read 2:12 am; it was the third call in as many minutes.
I tried calling back—no answer. I went back to sleep, angry at Kristi for calling in the middle of the night and scaring me with a single sentence.
The next morning I fired off an email: "I cannot, for the love of God, imagine what you were thinking when you called last night.
Please tell me." Kristi and I had become battle buddies at home while our husbands were serving in Iraq in 2004-05.
We had cried each time a military family member called with word of a soldier's death or suicide; we grieved at funerals and gravesites, marches and memorials.
We wept with and for each another when she or I learned that our husband had been mobilized for another deployment, and again when they finally came home.
Her husband had served three combat tours since 2002.
The last one was the shortest yet, a mere 10 months, and Kristi wrote in an email that "he actually came back pretty normal this time!" That was nearly four months ago. When my phone rang in the afternoon early last fall, I saw that it was her, and picked up.
"Mark tried to strangle me last night," she blurted out. "I called you from the bathroom. I locked myself in with the pets. I didn't want him to hurt my puppy. I'm sorry I called. I was just so scared, and I didn't have anyone else to call. I couldn't call the cops."
I had gotten other midnight calls from other military wives, cowering in closets and under dining room tables, dialing for a lifeline to someone outside of their domestic war zone.
But this was my friend: strong and smart, she had worked at a women's shelter nearly a decade ago. She knew all the warning signs.
And Kristi's husband adored her.
He had no history of domestic violence, no pattern of abuse. He had made no attempts to isolate her from friends, family, or finances. Mark's most recent post-deployment mental health assessment hadn't indicated any issues.
There hadn't been a single red flag before Mark wrapped his hands around Kristi's throat and squeezed, which is what makes veterans' household violence unique.
Abuse by combat veterans tends to have its own distinctive pattern that is unlike the recurring power-and-control cycle of abuse described in most domestic violence literature.
The journal Disabled American Veterans stated that veteran interpersonal violence often involves "only one or two extremely violent and frightening abusive episodes that quickly precipitate treatment seeking."
"Mark tried to strangle me last night," my friend blurted out.
The majority of studies of treatment-seeking veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or combat-related mental health issues report that at least 50 percent of those veterans commit wife-battering and family violence.
Male veterans with PTSD are two to three times more likely than veterans without PTSD to engage in intimate partner violence, according to the VA, which also found that the majority of veterans with combat stress commit at least one act of spousal abuse in their first year post-deployment.
"How are you now?" I asked Kristi. "Where is he?"
"I'm okay, but my throat hurts a little. He's gone. I made him leave this morning. I told him I didn't want to hear from him until he had talked to a counselor or gotten into some kind of treatment.
I said that I didn't feel safe with him, and I couldn't…I wasn't…" she sobbed, hiccupping out words, "I wasn't sure if I ever would again… Goddamn it. Goddamn this war."
Kristi and I talked a lot over the next days and weeks—mostly she talked, and I listened. She was seeing a civilian counselor, but spent most of her time at home, shell-shocked and alone.
She said her counselor just kept telling her to leave her husband, giving her lectures on the typical cycle of domestic abuse, so she tried to find someone who understood the military and veterans.
She called the military chaplain on post, but he never called back. She called the VA, and asked if they had support programs for wives of combat veterans.
They didn't. She called Military One Source, a free counseling assistance program provided by the Department of Defense.
But the lady there just started to cry, and told her that she got "these calls all the time. I can't help you. Unless you authorize a report, I can't authorize assistance."
Kristi reached out to another military spouse that lived off post and was married to an Iraq war veteran.
She told her what happened, and her friend said that she and her husband had gotten into so many fights, hitting and screaming and throwing things at each other, that she ended up going to the domestic violence shelter.
Staff at the shelter told her that they didn't have programs for wives of veterans, and that her husband made too much money for her to stay there, anyway.
Meanwhile, Mark was staying with friends, or sleeping in his office.
After several days of silence, they began talking, but she hasn't seen him since that night, and at times, she's wondered if she even wants to. "I miss him, I do," she said. "We've already been apart way too much, but I am so angry, and hurt."
Today, Kristi says that Mark's trying to get help, but it's not easy.
He called a domestic violence hotline, and the person he talked to discouraged him from going to the men's group because he doesn't fit the abuser profile. "It's not like he can make a lot of calls about this when he works for 10 hours every day,"
Kristi says. "His insurance won't pay for him go to a private therapist at night. They said he can only see someone at the base medical center, and he's not doing that. He can't really sneak off for three hours in the middle of the day and drive down to the VA, either."
Most family victims of veteran violence don't file reports with the police or their husband's command.
The military is stepping up domestic violence programs and education at military instillations, but the pressure on spouses within the active duty and retired military culture and much of the civilian population to remain silent is especially intense during a time a war.
Speaking out about veteran violence at home seems to be perceived as more of a betrayal than the violence itself.
Even so, since 2003, there has been a 75 percent increase in reports of domestic violence in and around Ft. Hood, where the number of soldiers diagnosed with PTSD rose from 310 in 2004 to 2,445 in 2009.
Equally telling is the 2010 Military Family Lifestyle Survey, the second annual poll conducted by Blue Star Families (BSF) of military families with a loved one currently in the service.
This year's survey included a ream of questions about returning-veteran violence. I don't think there was a single question on that topic last year.
When I last spoke to Kristi, she said that she had quit praying that she and Mark "would get their old lives back. That's gone." Now, she just prays that the last deployment was, in fact, the last, and that someday, the war will end for them, too.
About 63,000 soldiers will return from combat tours between July and December.
According to military statistics, nearly half of active-duty National Guard members, 38 percent of Army soldiers, and 31 percent of Marines report mental health problems upon return from Middle East deployments.
If just 20 percent of them have post-combat stress, then it can reasonably be projected that roughly half of those veterans will commit at least one act of severe domestic abuse or interpersonal violence in the coming year.
That's approximately 6,300 veterans' wives and kids who are at risk.
President Obama declared that major combat operations in Iraq are over.
They may just be starting for thousands of America's military family members.
It is long overdue to publicly address the issues of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE………..CHILD ABUSE……….and SEXUAL ABUSE in the CHRISTIAN Church Community.
I firmly believe that in order for each Church in America to continue claiming its Non-Profit Status, CHURCH Officials must Hire at least one real ABUSE Prevention Advocate on a Full-time basis to deal with these Destructive issues.
Having real ABUSE Prevention Advocates on Staff would greatly REDUCE the rate of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE………..CHILD ABUSE……….and SEXUAL ABUSE in the CHRISTIAN Church Community.
Preventing DOMESTIC VIOLENCE………..CHILD ABUSE……….and SEXUAL ABUSE in the CHRISTIAN Church Community is not an issue for DEMOCRATS or REPUBLICANS to address.
It is an issue for HUMAN BEINGS to address!
It is time for the SECRECY of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE within the CHRISTIAN Church Community to be Exposed so Hurting People can be Helped, not Hidden away.
The issue of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE in American Churches is often more prevalent in the SOUTH due to the SOUTH long being considered the BIBLE Beltway.
CHRISTIAN Churches in the SOUTH are notorious for SEGREGATION........DISCRIMINATION........RACISM.......DIVORCE........CHILD ABUSE.......POVERTY and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE all in the name of CHRIST.
I am a CHRISTIAN and I am not ashamed of professing this truth.
However what I am ashamed of is how the CHRISTIAN Church Community in America has covered up & hidden DOMESTIC VIOLENCE for Centuries.
More so among CHRISTIAN Church Congregations in the SOUTH.
The BIBLE teaches that both the Husband & Wife are to be Submissive to one another.
Unfortunately in the American CHRISTIAN Church Community many Pastors Falsely teach that only Wives are to be Submissive.
Such False Teaching has encouraged many CHRISTIAN Men to think they are Authorized by GOD to Abuse and Disrespect their Wives & Children into Submission.
Many CHRISTIAN Men also have a False sense of Spiritual Security, because these same Men believe they can Beat and Disrespect their Wives, continue working in the CHURCH and yet still arrive in HEAVEN one day.
In many cases PASTORS (especially SOUTHERN Pastors) who are well aware of such DOMESTIC VIOLENCE occurring within their Congregations, turn a Blind eye and a Deaf ear by allowing CHRISTIAN Men who Abuse & Disrespect their Wives and Children to continue Serving in the CHURCH.
This includes positions of CHURCH Leadership!
There are hundreds of thousands of WOMEN within the 21st century CHURCH Community walking around with a SMILE on their faces, yet Hurting deeply inside due to False or Inaccurate Teaching about SUBMISSION.
I have personally read the BIBLE from Genesis to Revelation, but I have NEVER read in the BIBLE where GOD Authorizes or Encourages Men to Abuse or Disrespect their WIVES and Children into Submission.
I have personally read in the BIBLE where GOD tells Human Beings, including CHRISTIANS to "LOVE ONE ANOTHER", but I have NEVER read in the BIBLE where GOD Authorizes or Encourages Men to Abuse or Disrespect their WIVES and Children into Submission.
So how can CHRISTIAN Pastors teach such False information to their Members?
There have even been situations in the CHRISTIAN Community where in a particular Church just because a certain Woman is Disliked by other Women (due to Envy, Jealousy, Strife, etc.,)
the other Church members will CRUCIFY that Woman with SLANDER, Libel or by turning a Blind eye to that Woman being Abused & Disrespected by her Husband.
In fact in many instances those other Church members will encourage the Husband to continue Abusing that Woman, by Approving and Accepting the Husband, while Rejecting his Wife, whom they Dislike.
Of course this Pattern of Behavior often leads to DIVORCE or largely contributes to DIVORCE, which is another HUGE Problem within the CHRISTIAN Church Community.
Especially CHRISTIAN Churches in the BIBLE Belt SOUTH!
Many CHRISTIAN Men who Abuse their Wives are Hurting Men, who most likely experienced CHILD ABUSE or SEXUAL ABUSE during their Childhood.
But does the CHRISTIAN Church Community address or Counsel Men who are CHILD ABUSE and SEXUAL ABUSE Survivors?
NO!
Thus Hurting People Continue To Hurt Other People!
Just telling Hurting CHRISTIAN Men to FORGIVE and PRAY is Not enough.
It is True for Men who were Victims of CHILD ABUSE and SEXUAL ABUSE to Forgive their Abusers.
But after FORGIVENESS then what??
Human Beings were created by GOD to experience EMOTIONS.
If Men in the CHRISTIAN Church Community are Not taught how to properly HEAL and COPE with the after effects of CHILD ABUSE or SEXUAL ABUSE, they will grow into Adults and continue those same Patterns of ABUSE.
Are these examples of GOD'S LOVE?
How can the CHRISTIAN Church Community Criticize and Condemn MUSLIMS when they are Emotionally and Socially Killing their Own Members?
Many CHRISTIAN Men are also U.S. Military Veterans who are still Suffering from PTSD.
When those CHRISTIAN Men who are also U.S. Military Veterans visit their local V.A. Hospitals, the V.A. Hospital Doctors often prescribe a bunch of PILLS for them to ingest daily.
Those CHRISTIAN Men who are also U.S. Military Veterans are NEVER required to seek or be Counseled.
They are just prescribed a bunch of PILLS which they ingest like Candy, while receiving NO Mental Health Relief.
This is the reason why I Support Pres OBAMA and JOHN MCCAIN'S efforts to offer U.S. Military Veterans the option to seek Medical Care from PRIVATE PHYSICIANS.
Pastors within the CHRISTIAN Church Community REFUSING to provide Counseling to Men who are Victims of CHILD ABUSE and SEXUAL ABUSE is a huge Mistake, which continues to Fracture the American Church Society and contributes to Broken Homes.
Perhaps this explains the high number of DIVORCES in CHRISTIAN Churches.
Broken Homes equals Broken CHILDREN.
Broken Homes equals Broken WOMEN who must Struggle to Financially Start their lives over without a Second Income, or in many instances NO Income at all!
Many BLACK Men within the CHRISTIAN Church Community have had Several DIVORCES because it was widely accepted to just find another Wife.
Many BLACK Men within the CHRISTIAN Church Community, including BLACK Church LEADERS, are encouraged and allowed to "Try On Women" in the same manner Women try on Shoes in a Shoe Boutique.
Unfortunately many Pastors (BLACK & WHITE) do Not want to take time to deal with the Destructive Epidemic of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE in the CHRISTIAN Church Community for Fear of their members leaving the Church and taking their MONEY with them.
Unfortunately many Pastors (BLACK & WHITE) also do Not want to take time to address ANY pertinent Socially Destructive Crisis in the CHRISTIAN Church Community such as SEGREGATION........DISCRIMINATION........RACISM.......DIVORCE........CHILD ABUSE........and POVERTY.
Why?
For Fear of their members leaving the Church and taking their MONEY with them!
I am Confused.
How can such Selfish, Mean-Spirited acts demonstrated towards other Human Beings be examples of GOD'S LOVE?
How can DOMESTIC VIOLENCE be an example of GOD'S LOVE?
How can SEGREGATION........DISCRIMINATION........RACISM.......DIVORCE........CHILD ABUSE........and POVERTY be examples of GOD'S LOVE?
Again I ask, how can the CHRISTIAN Church Community Criticize and Condemn MUSLIMS when they are Emotionally and Socially Killing their Own Members?
I could go on in this post but it's obvious I've written enough or maybe too much on the issue of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE within the CHRISTIAN Church Community.
I just want DOMESTIC VIOLENCE widely addressed on the National stage during the 2016 Elections.
I just want Women, Men & Children who need to HELP to have ACCESS to Counseling, Mentoring and Financial Assistance (JOBS & Affordable Housing) if necessary.
Look around.
There could be someone within your CHURCH who is a Victim of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.......CHILD ABUSE........or SEXUAL ABUSE.
It could be YOU.
It could be ME.
Please don't turn a Blind eye or a Deaf ear.
Let's Please STOP The Cycle Of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.......CHILD ABUSE........or SEXUAL ABUSE.
Especially within the CHRISTIAN Church Community in America.
Together We Can Save Lives!
Together We Can Build Or Rebuild Lives!
Talk Is Cheap!
Let's Put Forth Some ACTION!
It Is Cheaper To Help Someone Than To Bury Them.
It Is Cheaper To Help Someone Than To Incarcerate Them For Years & Years.
GOD IS LOVE.
Let The CHURCH Say "AMEN"
Sources & Statistics: Christian Post; Christianity Today; Youtube
Yesterday, I spoke at the Sojourners Summit at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. It's a diverse gathering focused on engaging the faith community in different aspects community engagement and service.
My role at the Summit was to present research we have recently completed, sponsored by IMA World Health and Sojourners around an important issue: how the church is responding to domestic and sexual violence.
Sojourners explained it this way:
Violence against women was named as a "significant public health issue" by the World Health Organization in 2013, which reported that 35 percent of women around the globe have experienced sexual or physical abuse by a partner or non-partner. And according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the chance of a man experiencing abuse at the hand of an intimate partner was one in four.
What makes this poll unique is that there is not much data on how pastors view and address the issues of domestic and sexual violence. According to Rick Santos, President and CEO of IMA World Health, "there is little information out there about what is actually happening in the U.S. faith community on this issue."
Despite the poll's major finding — that pastors underestimate the pervasiveness of sexual and domestic violence in their congregations — the report offers some hope. Of the pastors polled, 81 percent reported that they would "take appropriate action to reduce sexual and domestic violence if they had the training and resources to do so."
Sojourners recently published I Believe You: Sexual Violence and the Church , a study edited by its president and founder, Jim Wallis, and Catherine Woodiwiss, Associate Web Editor.
The study features three essays about women, sexual violence, and their experiences in dealing with their abuse in their churches.
It is a step forward in the effort to bring light to an issue that is often cloaked in darkness and to give voices to victims who often feel silenced by the church's failure to understand the prevalence of sexual and domestic violence.
"This is a conversation the church needs to be having but isn't," Wallis said. "We cannot remain silent when our sisters and brothers live under the threat of violence in their homes and communities."
Wallis was joined by Rev. Amy Gopp, Director of Member Relations and Pastoral Care at Church World Service who said "I hope this report will educate faith leaders about the importance of reaching out to domestic violence programs in their communities and creating strong partnerships so that survivors are served in the way they deserve."
The Christian Post shared details about the gap between occurrence and awareness:
Monica Taffinder, a Christian counselor who specializes in trauma recovery, depression, anxiety, and sexual abuse recovery, argues that many pastors tend to be somewhat naïve when it comes to the probability that both victims and perpetrators exist within their church.
"I really think people don't think that it happens in their congregation," Taffinder told The Christian Post. "I mean, [pastors] know these people. They see these people. They go to dinner with these people. They worship with these people. I know they're savvy enough to realize that there's just as much as they don't know people in their congregations as they do, but still."
The study also found that 65 percent of pastors had spoken one or fewer times about domestic and sexual violence, with 22 percent indicating they addressed it annually, while 33 percent mentioned it "rarely." Ten percent of pastors said they had never taught on it.
"Based on the number of times they speak to their congregations about sexual or domestic violence each year, the majority of pastors do not consider sexual or domestic violence central to larger religious themes such as strong families, a peaceful society, pursuing holiness, social justice, etc.," the report states.
You can find the full release from IMA World Health including a downloadable report.
It's an important issue and I encourage you to educate yourself and engage more fully on the subject.
Would Politico Have Fired Joe Williams (a BLACK Reporter) for making Negative Remarks about Barack Obama?
NO!!!
If Joe Williams were WHITE and made Negative Comments about Mitt Romney would Politico have Fired him?
NO!!!!
I have witnessed WHITE Politico Reporters on Cable News speaking openly against Mitt Romney, yet I haven't heard where any of those WHITE Reporters were Suspended or Terminated.
Firing a BLACK Journalist for making Negative remarks about a WHITE Presidential Candidate, while refusing to Fire WHITE Journalists for making Negative Remarks about BLACK & WHITE Presidential Candidates?
What example of Journalism Integrity is that Politico???
This further proves Mitt Romney does have an Adversion to People of Color, especially BLACK people and that Media Organizations like Politico often lean more to the Right than they care to admit.
As soon as the words escaped my lips, live on national television, I suspected I might have a problem.
I’d used the phrase trying to explain why Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent so much time chatting with Fox News, why he’s kept the mainstream press at bay, and why he seemed so awkward and stiff around Minorities.
Within hours, my Blackberry was filled with racist hate mail, my Twitter account had been ravaged, I was on indefinite suspension, and my 28-year career was in jeopardy.
The Right Wing Noise Machine — a small cabal of self-appointed watchdogs on a perpetual hunt for perceived liberal bias — had struck again.
By now, my cautionary tale is familiar: after saying Romney, a Millionaire Businessman, is more comfortable with around people like him was like waving a red cape waving in front of a charging bull — namely, Big Media, an arm of the late Andrew Breitbart’s online empire, and DC Caller, a web site scandal sheet run by Tucker Carlson.
After rummaging through some 3,000 tweets, they cherry-picked ones designed to prove their flimsy case: that I was biased against Romney, a Racist against Whites and a representative of my employer’s slant against Conservatives.
At this point, I have to own my role in the story: I was careless on Twitter, ignored some warning signs, and realized too late that my followers weren’t the only ones watching me.
Life on the business end of a scandal, is mortifying; an old friend told me I’d raced past the blues singer and the rock guitarist to become the lead result in a Joe Williams Google search, for all the wrong reasons.
Yet it’s easy to miss the larger lesson in my cautionary tale — that a tiny group of organizations with internet access, a money pipeline and next to no credibility can coerce powerful, independent news organizations that pride themselves on speaking truth to power.
Rather than inform the public or operate as a legitimate check on the media, pointing out gaps in newsroom diversity or errors in coverage, members of the RWNM only care about their agenda: harassing, undermining, discrediting and embarrassing people who don’t agree with their view of the world.
Breitbart.com, the group that targeted me, is the same outfit behind the case of Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was fired after a video surfaced of her making racially inflammatory remarks — a video that was later shown to be heavily edited and taken out of context.
Another RWNM member: James O’Keefe, the conservative agent provocateur whose ham-fisted, out-of-context “stings” helped take down ACORN, an organization dedicated to registering minority voters, led to the firing of an NPR executive for making disparaging remarks about the Tea Party – and landed him in jail for tampering with the phones in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) while trying to engineer another elaborate, phony set-up.
And Daily Caller, the group that posted embarrassing tweets of mine that had nothing to do with anti-Romney bias, employs Neil Munro, the reporter who harassed President Barack Obama by yelling out irrelevant questions during a White House press conference a few days ago.
Given that dismal track record — and the big “reveal” trumpeted by Breitbart himself, a decades-old video that showed Obama, as a law student, once said some nice things about Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell — it’s surprising that any allegations these groups make are taken seriously, and that major news organizations with solid credentials don’t tell these guys to take a long hike off a short pier.
Yet the specious claims and hollow arguments of the RWNM’s promoters somehow are still heard and accepted by those who have the power to change the dynamic.
Too often, however, they don’t, with results akin to a kid forking over his lunch money whenever the schoolyard bully decides to shake his fist.
Just ask Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes.
For simply questioning whether the word “hero” is overused to desensitize the American public to perpetual war, he got a face full of shrapnel from “outraged” RWNM conservatives who publicly questioned everything from his patriotism to his manhood.
Hayes issued an apology days later, but the Right Wing Message Machine’s phony outrage had done its work, adding more ice to the chilling effect it’s layered on American journalism and critical thought.
Reporters and news organizations have always prided itself on being fearless, independent and intrepid, willing to push back on government and stand up for free speech. Now, in a hyper-kinetic, hyper-partisan age, it seems we’re not even willing to push back on our own critics, which doesn’t bode all that well for my colleagues.
I’d bet my last dollar that I’m not the only journalist in Washington who’s written, said, tweeted or done something that Breitbart.com and company would see as biased. To paraphrase an old adage, they see themselves as hammers, and journalists are the nails.
To my great regret, I wasn’t the first person to stumble into their cross-hairs, and I’m certain I won’t be the last.
Unless journalists and their employers decide to stand up to the bullies, only one question remains: who’s next?
Joe Williams, the POLITICO reporter who was suspended last week for controversial remarks he had made on television and Twitter, will leave his job.
"After some cordial discussions, Joe Williams and I mutually decided that the best step for him is to begin a transition to the next phase of his career," POLITICO Editor-in-Chief John Harris wrote in a memo to staff, sent early Saturday morning. "Joe is an experienced and respected journalist, with keen insights into politics. After nearly 30 years in the business, he has the authority and is ready to give voice to his insights and conclusions in a new setting."
"He’ll be on leave of absence during this transition, and he’s got my gratitude for the contributions he made here, both as reporter and editor. I have told Joe — and it’s a sentiment others who worked closely with him here share — that he’ll have my support as he prepares for what I expect will be a good and prominent next chapter in his career," Harris wrote.
In an MSNBC interview on June 21, Williams suggested that Mitt Romney was only comfortable around white people, prompting the conservative website Breitbart.com to flag a number of negative remarks Williams had made about Romney on Twitter. That night, Harris and Executive Editor Jim VandeHei sent a memo to staff announcing that Williams's remarks "fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment," and that he would be suspended pending review.
In response to this morning's news, Williams wrote: "While I'm disappointed at the circumstances of my departure, I'm grateful to John Harris for giving me an opportunity to work with him at Politico."
It has been revealed that disgraced political commentator Joe Williams pleaded guilty and was convicted of assaulting his ex-wife, author Amy Alexander on May 24 of this year.
The former Politico White House correspondent who lost his job last month for a racial comment aimed at Mitt Romney received a $200 fine and six months probation.
The probation ends on November 24 this year and comes on top of a year long court order against the controversial reporter that compels him to stay away from his two children's school and to surrender all his firearms.
Williams and his wife divorced on April 7 2008 after approximately 12 years of marriage.
Previous to the court granting the divorce, Alexander had filed for restraining order against Williams on August 2, 2007, that was dismissed after Alexander withdrew the complaint.
Williams refused to comment on the allegations of domestic violence but his ex-wife did make a statement:
'I can't comment on a legal case but will say that I sincerely hope that Joe Williams finds his professional footing and that he also begins to take seriously his responsibilities as the father of our two children.'
The Politico reporter lost his job last month when he said that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was more comfortable around white.
Williams made the controversial comments just over a week ago on MSNBC and was let go by the political website in an announcement made on Saturday morning by the editor, John Harris.
'After some cordial discussions, Joe Williams and I mutually decided that the best step for him is to begin a transition to the next phase of his career,' wrote Harris.
Already suspended from his job for saying that the former Massachusetts governor was 'very comfortable' around 'white folks', Williams had tried to claim that he was the victim of a right-wing smear campaign.
However, as commentators and conservative websites trawled through Williams' Twitter account postings, they discovered other pointed examples of his apparent biased towards Romney.
Upon his initial suspension by Politico, the website claimed that his comments on MSNBC 'fell short of our standards for fairness and judgement'.
Referring to his tweets, he was also cited for 'an unacceptable number' of statements and for not being able to 'cover politics fairly and free of partisan bias.'
'Joe is an experienced and respected journalist, with keen insights into politics,' said the statement from John Harris.
'After nearly 30 years in the business, he has the authority and is ready to give voice to his insights and conclusions in a new setting.'
Williams himself was reported by Politico to have responded, 'While I'm disappointed at the circumstances of my departure, I'm grateful to John Harris for giving me an opportunity to work with him at Politico.'
Before his suspension for making racially-charged statements about Mitt Romney Joe Williams apparently had some other concerns about appropriate race relations in the political sphere.
White House reporter Joe Williams, who worked for Politico since April 2011, tweeted on March 30 of 2012, 'what's most irritating is the overlay of blatant racism. that's the secret sauce in the Politico s***burger'.
The controversy began while speaking as a contributor during Martin Bashir's MSNBC show, Williams, who is African-American said that Romney is more at ease when he makes his frequent appearances on Fox News Channel and implied that race is a consideration.
Saying that Romney 'is very, very comfortable' during his appearances on 'Fox and Friends', Mr Williams went on to comment, 'They're white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.'
With a history of describing Romney and other Republicans in a controversial manner on his Twitter account, Williams was suspended after a meeting with Politico's founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei.
Shortly after the suspension was announced, his Twitter feed became private.
The Daily Caller was able to still view the account somehow, and asked Williams about the 'special sauce' Tweet.
He responded that on March 30 'I was having a bad day,' and then directed any further questions to his attorney.
'Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams's public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility,' the Politico editors said at the time of his suspension.
They have not publicly commented about his allegations of racism at the political news outlet.
'(The MSNBC) appearance came in the context of other remarks on Twitter that, cumulatively, require us to make clear that our standards are serious, and so are the consequences for disregarding them.
'This is true for all POLITICO journalists, including an experienced and well-respected voice like Joe Williams.
'Following discussion of this matter with editors, Joe has been suspended while we review the matter.'
Making frequent references to racial factors during his MSNBC appearances, Mr. Williams stepped over the line it seems with his opinions last week.
'And (Romney's appearances on Fox & Friends are) unscripted. It’s the only time they let Mitt off the leash. But it also points out a larger problem he’s got to solve if he wants to be successful come this fall.
'Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him. 'That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in town hall settings, why he can’t relate to people other than that.
'But when he comes on ‘Fox & Friends,’ they’re like him.
'They’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.'
The suspension of Williams follows his continued ridicule of Romney on his Twitter feed.
He has made tweets that allude to Romney being served his food by a butler: 'Jeeves knows my tastes' he wrote when Romney said he has never eaten anything surprising.
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