{"id":109911,"date":"2016-11-22T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109911"},"modified":"2019-06-23T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:04:02","slug":"national-politico-editor-resigns-after-publishing-home-addresses-of-alt-right-icon-richard-spencer-advocating-for-baseball-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109911","title":{"rendered":"National Politico Editor RESIGNS After Publishing Home Addresses Of Alt-Right Icon Richard Spencer, Advocating For \u2018Baseball Bats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hirsh tweets: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s good that neo-Nazi Richard Spencer is moving to Washington. It&#8217;s important that we know where he lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Publishing address of Nazi Richard Spencer and call for baseball bats is totally legitimate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bKxQjnhbtN\">https:\/\/t.co\/bKxQjnhbtN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ha&#39;ivri \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@haivri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haivri\/status\/801160127931936771\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These Nazis need to be rooted out of society. They are the kind of people I would like to see hanging from a tree. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rU9U4BGtF\">https:\/\/t.co\/3rU9U4BGtF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ha&#39;ivri \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@haivri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haivri\/status\/801128309631291393\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jewish Violence is a very serious problem.<br \/>I hope the SPLC &amp; ADL can work with us to help educate America on this serious &amp; growing problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ASdmltbZl\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ASdmltbZl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83d\udc38John Rivers\ud83d\udc38 (@JohnRiversX2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversX2\/status\/801209371036450820\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/22\/national-politico-editor-publishes-home-addresses-of-alt-right-icon-richard-spencer-advocates-for-baseball-bats\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>National editor at Politico Michael Hirsh resigned after publishing the home addresses of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer Tuesday morning and advocating for serious violence.<\/p>\n<p>Politico confirmed his resignation following requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans,\u201d Hirsh wrote in a public Facebook post. \u201cHere are his two addresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hirshredacted.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hirshredacted-300x109.png\" alt=\"hirshredacted\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hirshredacted-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hirshredacted.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and POLITICO editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,\u201d Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told TheDCNF. \u201cThey crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Hirsh\u2019s initial post could have been charitably interpreted to imply advocacy of a non-violent protest outside of Spencer\u2019s home or other similar non-violent actions, a subsequent question and answer clarified Hirsh\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompletely agree we should mobilize against his hateful ideas, but what does knowing his home addresses do?\u201d asked Doug Widmann, Harvard Law graduate and senior vice president at the at The D. E. Shaw Group. \u201cSend a letter? Confront him in person? Seems like counter-speech is the main thing we can do. You can call it \u201cwhining\u201d but I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s fair or constructive. Side note: Apparently the GSA-owned Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in DC felt obligated to host his organization\u2019s event because it can\u2019t discriminate against speech under the First Amendment, so there\u2019s that problem, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hirsh responded in an unhinged manner: \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps knowing it wasn\u2019t such a good idea to advocate openly for serious violence against Spencer in a public format, Hirsh deleted the post, but not before TheDCNF grabbed a screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-22-08_24_25-Michael-Hirsh-Stop-whining-about-Richard-B.-Spencer-Nazi-and....png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-22-08_24_25-Michael-Hirsh-Stop-whining-about-Richard-B.-Spencer-Nazi-and...-300x45.png\" alt=\"2016-11-22-08_24_25-michael-hirsh-stop-whining-about-richard-b-spencer-nazi-and\" width=\"300\" height=\"45\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-22-08_24_25-Michael-Hirsh-Stop-whining-about-Richard-B.-Spencer-Nazi-and...-300x45.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-22-08_24_25-Michael-Hirsh-Stop-whining-about-Richard-B.-Spencer-Nazi-and....png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia: &#8220;Michael Hirsh is the national editor for Politico. He is the former foreign editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek. He was a member of JournoList. He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and is a frequent guest of The Young Turks, a streaming internet political talk show. In addition to Newsweek, he has also written for Foreign Affairs, Harper&#8217;s, and Washington Monthly. Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for &#8220;prescience in identifying the al Qaeda threat half a year before the September 11 attacks&#8221; and for Newsweek&#8217;s coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award. He lives in Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Curious to hear his proposal for eradication. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uzbOmfux1Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/uzbOmfux1Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Pinsen (@dpinsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dpinsen\/status\/801210802934083585\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think it&#39;s good that neo-Nazi Richard Spencer is moving to Washington. It&#39;s important that we know where he lives. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3pKeYtWX0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z3pKeYtWX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Hirsh (@michaelphirsh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelphirsh\/status\/800800910175825921\">November 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hirsh tweets: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s good that neo-Nazi Richard Spencer is moving to Washington. It&#8217;s important that we know where he lives.&#8221; Publishing address of Nazi Richard Spencer and call for baseball bats is totally legitimate https:\/\/t.co\/bKxQjnhbtN &mdash; David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109911"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128007,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109911\/revisions\/128007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}