You may remember from yesterday, VolvoDrivingLiberal posted a diary which contained a racist and hateful email and a photoshopped picture of President Obama depicted as a witch doctor....pretty nasty stuff. Volvo called us to action and we responded. I got responses, two emails and one phone call, from the two hospitals that McKalip practices at in St. Pete, Florida as well as the AMA. I had contacted all three. Well, there's big news today! Read on and rejoice:
WMNF Tampa is a wonderful, progressive, listener supported FM radio station in the Tampa Bay area. Since the McKalip story was local and they cover local news, they were following the story and here's what they reported just this morning:
" Breaking news on WMNF airwaves. About an hour ago, David McKalip, the controversial incoming president of the Pinellas County Medical association (active against healthcare reform in lots of ways but specifically took control of last week’s poorly organized (MoveOn) pro-reform rally - resigned his office on our airwaves. It’s big news around here ! Yesterday this guy posted a very racist photoshopped image of Obama in full tribal, witch doctor regalia with the caption "ObamaCare"... and sent it out to about 200 people. It went viral and in less than 24 hours he was on our radio station apologiozing and ultimately announced his resignation as imcoming president of the Pinellas County Medical Association. As soon as the phone call was over Sean wrote up the story and posted it on our news blog... forward to anyone you think might be interested..."
We're interested for sure, right? Thanks Volvo for breaking this story and enpowering us to take action. We cannot stand for this type of crap, nowhere, no how......let's see if he gets reprimanded from the hospitals he serves and from the AMA...I don't think this story is over yet. Keep the pressure on folks. Go to Volvo's diary from yesterday for all the links to hospitals and the AMA. They will respond--my phone call from the Director of Corporate Relations from St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Pete was very satisfying. The director was livid, and she revealed that she is a black woman and so it disgusted her. I told her I was a white 66-year-old female and I was horrified. Good work people!
By the way, here's the link to the story on WMNF's blog. http://www.wmnf.org/...
While you're there, check out this radio station and find out how you can stream it in live all day....it's, as my grandkids say, the bomb!