“Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams’s public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility,” POLITICO’s founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote in a staff memo, published on its website. “His comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way.”
“Following discussion of this matter with editors, Joe has been suspended while we review the matter,” they continued. The founders also said POLITICO journalists have an “inflexible responsibility to cover politics fairly and free of partisan bias.”
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Face it Obama and Holder Ran Guns and they did it to blame American Gun Owners to unarm Americans. You guys on msnbc are so blind and bias you will never admit it. imo