BREAKING : Second Dispatcher Caught in Obama Hate Thread
Submitted by Anthony Fossaceca on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 12:42pm.
OhioDaily broke the story this morning of a North Canton Police Dispatcher who sent a racist message from her police email account. Dispatcher Anita Malachowski forwarded a message she received to an undisclosed number of recipients. Clearly a violation of the public trust and jeopardizing the police officers in her department.
What's more shocking is that the story doesn't stop there.
Malachowski received the email as part of a larger email blast sent by Uniontown Police Dispatcher Holli Webb (pictured above).
While on the clock.
At the police department.
OhioDaily spoke with Webb moments ago and she confirmed, after significant hesitation, that she was at work at 8:45AM (her day starts at 7AM) when she sent the email from her personal Hotmail account ( holliwebb1@hotmail.com ).
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OFFENSIVE EMAIL
I have already forwarded this to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Yes, I know that e-address is for incorrect health insurance reform emails, but I have taken the privilege to forward any and all emails that are offensive and what I consider coercive against the US government and administration to that address.
It is an effective way to get my revulsion quickly mitigated.
Even if they are ignored at the receiving end, I feel better about the whole thing, having acted.
Golden rule, anyone?
Hey, did you ever pass on a funny but offensive email? I admit I have. I'm a liberal, and I have an outrageous sense of humor. I like parody, I like The Daily Show and George Carlin, etc. I work at a job where I'm on the computer a lot, and I will often surf the web at lunch or in my free time.
My 90-year-old grandmother in-law is always sending my wife these awful emails. You know, the standard right-wing crazy emails, like Obama is the antichrist, and whatnot. Do you want to send this grandma to jail???? Stop it with the "thoughtcrime"... it's a free country and we are free to hate the ethnicity of our choice, we are free to be idiots.
It's not illegal to hate Obama. I sure hated Bush. It's not a hate crime to send out dumb emails, even on your job. Calm Down Now.
PS: Nice blog!! I live near N. Canton so I appreciate a local lefty blog. Hope you can tolerate a little dissent.
The Golden Rule
Yes, the rule was something that Jesus Christ commanded of his followers, during the Sermon on the Mount: "Whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do you even so unto them" (Matthew 7:12.)
That is the most base, racist term that a black man can be called, a term used through U.S. history as the lowest, most demeaning thing one can say? Why is it socially acceptable to do that? Forwarding that email is no different than if she had written her friends and coworkers and just directly said, "Obama is a ******".
Aw shucks, izzn't dat funny massa? Mebbe we kin throw a noose aroun' de plane, too?
It was extremely disrespectful. I believe only people with no respect for the office of the President, or Obama, would forward such a thing.
And you dirty the names of both George Carlin and The Daily Show by *using* as part of your justification.
Nobody is "sending grandma to jail," anymore than Obama was planning to "pull the plug on grandma." You Republicans are the sorest losers.