Joe Williams Suspended for Remarks and Tweets About Mitt Romney

Politico’s White House Correspondent, Joe Williams, was suspendedfor a comment he made as part of a panel discussion on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC show and tweets the founding editors deemed “unacceptable” for a professional journalist. Williams made the remark after Bashir suggested that Mitt Romney’s trouble connecting with Hispanics might be due to the fact that “he rarely appears on television besides Fox.”

“Romney is very, very comfortable it seems with people who are like him. That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in some town hall settings, why he can’t relate to people other than that. But when he comes on Fox and Friends, they’re like him, they’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.”