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Liberal news outlet Huffington Post came under fire Friday afternoon over the front page "splash" headlines it ran on its story covering the ousting of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
The sin
The outlet first ran a splash that said "Goy, Bye!"
The phrase was a combination of a popular line coined by singer Beyonce — "boy, bye" — and a derogatory term used to refer to people who are not Jewish — "goy" — according to the site's editor-in-chief.
Today’s splash was intended to be a mashup tribute to Yiddish and Beyoncé. Any other interpretation was completely unintended.
— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) August 18, 2017
The outrage
People on both sides of the aisle were quick to criticize HuffPost for the headline.
Say, @HuffPost, WTF? https://t.co/zBmSw6r0a6— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1503078903.0
I love your work, but wish you hadn't gone with this headline.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 18, 2017
When you try going on HuffPost-dot-com and it redirects you to DailyStormer https://t.co/XpdhYiWWd4— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry Khachatrian) 1503081138.0
Double down
After taking a barrage of outrage, the outlet replaced the splash with another, presumably to correct its mistake. Except, the second headline may have been worse than the first.
"White Flight" the new splash read.
Now, the headline has been updated to "White Flight" which only goes to further affirm there's an active anti White… https://t.co/nsxqDFgcDs— Irma (@Irma) 1503085942.0
Double standards are very real
Imagine the thunderous outrage from the left if it had been a right-leaning news outlet that ran two separate racially charged derogatory headlines about one of former President Barack Obama's key advisers.
The fact that HuffPost was willing to "go there" proves there exists a double standard in the mainstream media over what's acceptable and what's not.
