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Trib Reporter Bemoans ‘Racist, Semi-Literate’ Readers

By Ryan Tate on June 4, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Wailin Wong has had it with the homophobes on the Chicago Tribune website, which is just as well, since one time blogger Ana Marie Cox has had it with people insisting she wear pants. The Twitterati, in short, said they wanted a revolution.


Wailin Wong of the Chicago Tribune lamented the knuckle-draggers reading her paper.

Washington, DC local TV reporter Brian Bolter pulled what is now known in the industry as a “Chris Matthews.” Must be contract time!

Comedian Heather Gold
practiced her non-sequiturs.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom reminded everyone he practiced gay marriage before it was cool. Or technically legal, actually!

Onetime pyjama blogger Ana Marie Cox, presently of the Daily Beast, took a suspiciously personal-sounding stand in support of the half naked.

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  • ChickyOnly
    June 04, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    @Pope John Peeps II: aw man, Wailin' Wong is going to be underappreciated at 2am.

    ChickyOnly

  • Pope John Peeps II
    June 04, 2009 at 3:46 PM

    Wailin Wong sounds like the greatest Japanese country act ever.

  • Thomas Lord
    June 04, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    Hey, man, when Gavin did it - even though it wasn't customary - it turns out it *technically* was legal. That was the "Re Marriage" decision, yadda yadda etc. etc. There'd be no "Prop h8" otherwise. That was a cool thing about his original action there ... he was basically saying "I'm required to do this under the state Constitution" (and he was right!).

    -t

    Thomas Lord

  • MoeGolden
    June 04, 2009 at 11:36 AM

    You've reminded me of Conan's first great new bit.

    TWITTER TRACKER!

    Don't crap on the app
    Don't spit on the twit
    Don't put twitter in the shitter

    MoeGolden

  • WilliamMarkFelt
    June 04, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    If Albert Einstein were alive today, would he Tweet?

  • Motoko Kusanagi
    June 04, 2009 at 11:12 PM

    @Pope John Peeps II: Pedantic, humorless aside: Anglicized Japanese surnames nearly always end in a vowel and comprise a string of one syllable consonant-vowel pairs or double-vowels.

    Wong is almost certainly of Chinese origin, or thereabouts.

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