Thursday, October 26, 2023

Detroit News fires Charlie LeDuff over c-word insult | Metro Detroit News | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times

Detroit News fires Charlie LeDuff over c-word insult | Metro Detroit News | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times
  • In an interview with Metro Times, LeDuff was defiant and said he has “nothing to apologize for”
""Charlie LeDuff, the polarizing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has increasingly peddled right-wing outrage on his podcast, was fired from the Detroit News after using a vulgar, coded phrase aimed at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
LeDuff came under fire over the weekend for telling Nessel in a social media post, “See you next Tuesday,” a backronym for the word “cunt.” 
It’s often written, “C U Next Tuesday.””..
“I’m not apologizing. I have nothing to apologize for. … I stand by it,” LeDuff says. “I said something clever on my own space because I am fucking pissed.”
LeDuff alleged in a Detroit News column last week that Nessel “subtly pressured her staff to close” an investigation into a friend, Traci Kornack, a personal injury lawyer and treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party
Kornack was accused of bilking an insurance company out of nearly $50,000 by using the account of an elderly, brain-damaged client...

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