In a spat I had with the Brown campaign, Carla Maranucci of the San Francisco Chronicle told me last month she would not publish substantial facts establishing I was not a “birther” unless I did something like resign as a member of an organization that has sued Obama to see his birth certificate. I told Marinucci and her boss that was McCarthyism and contrary to the Columbia University/New York Times published standards of journalist ethics. But they didn’t do anything about it, making them look like Jerry Brown flunkies to me. But now Marinucci can do something to prove she is not a Jerry Brown flunky, and to help respect the dignity of women who aspire to public service up and down the state. She can call on Jerry Brown to fire Sterling Clifford. Since Brown says he didn’t call Meg Whitman “a whore” on that telephone recording, it clearly must have been Sterling Clifford, his spokesman, whose most recent previous job was working as spokesman for a black female east coast mayor who was convicted of stealing public funds. Sterling “The Liar” Clifford surely was the man in the room yelling that Whitman is “a whore”. That would reflect the type of language the spokesman for a felonious Baltimore mayor would presumptively be comfortable with. Since Brown, as Attorney General, is responsible for enforcing California’s civil rights and equal employment laws, he surely would not have called Meg “a whore”. Like Meg, he is too classy to do that, too. I can’t imagine Meg tolerating anyone on her staff calling Brown “a pimp”. When someone who works for Meg does something really wrong, THEY GET FIRED. So Carla, now is your chance to show your nonpartisanship – call on Brown to fire Sterling Clifford, and keep writing stories about it even after he does fire him, please, for the sake of balance and fairness!

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.