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Friday November 9th, 2007 8:23 AM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Scandals, Politico, Helena Andrews

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Why is one of the Politico’s only black writers Helena Andrews portrayed as a drinker? All of the other caricatures on their pages are pretty vanilla, if you catch our drift. Maybe if there were a tad bit more diversity in that newsroom, it wouldn’t be an issue?

Related: It Ain’t Cute When a Politico Boss Picks on Old People

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  1. 10 Comments to 'Is This Politico Caricature Racist?'


  1. 1. Tuckered_Puppy said:


    To me, it looks like they’re portraying her as a sophisticated chick with pearls and a martini. More pretentiously Algonquin Roundtable than racist. Methinks you’re reading way too much into this. (Because you want to.)

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:37 am | Quote

  1. 2. Sassy Lo Mein said:


    Additionally, they way in which the caricature portrays her normally beautiful ethnic features reminds of a drawing from a 19th century eugenics textbook.

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:46 am | Quote

  1. 3. J.R. said:


    A pearl necklace, huh? A WHITE pearl necklace.

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:49 am | Quote

  1. 4. Gilda Sears said:


    Those big dangly earrings are very ethno-centric/racist. Just because she’s black it doesn’t mean that she wears tribal jewelery.

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am | Quote

  1. 5. Marcy Fame said:


    Oh noooo, they’re not being racist to her. The fact that her parking space says TOKEN is just a coincidence.

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 10:17 am | Quote

  1. 6. GBF said:


    I just looked at all their other pasty white caricatures. Why is there no other person of color on that staff? It’s outrageous. I hear that Jim Vandehei is a big GOP fat cat, so why am I not surprised?

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 11:03 am | Quote

  1. 7. Masked Blogger said:


    I’m good friends with a blogger with the initials L. L. His girlfriend works at the Politico. I hear all kinds of stories about the racist things Vandehei says when his token isn’t around.

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am | Quote


  1. […] Get this. Anne “Mellons” Schroeder was to solo host a Politico online chat yesterday, but her bosses asked that co-writer Helena Andrews sit in on the chat. Andrews, who some say is much more worldly than Schroeder, ended up stealing all of her thunder. In fact, questioners began addressing their questions only to Helena. One, we hear, even asked that Schroeder not weigh in on one of their questions. Schroeder is believed to have ignored that question. […]

    posted November 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am | Quote


  1. […] Craig’s Outer Backtracks | Dan Savage Hired Benjamin Nicholas | Sen. Craig’s Former Lovers Talk Politico Hammers People of Color — Again; Former Tom Delay Staffer Possibly Involved Tuesday December 4th, 2007 1:25 PM by BHDC Staff   Filed under: tk, Politico, Jim VandeHei,The Capitol Standard, Autumn Hanna Vandehei The multi-million dollar Politico publication, funded by the GOP-leaning Allbritton Communications company, has successfully squashed another competitor via backdoor bullying. In effect, the publication, well-known for its lack of diversity and conservative leanings, has strong armed a Hispanic upstart publication into changing its name.”Not content with taking stories that Hispanic journalists have already published and passing them off as exclusive, and THEN sending e-mails to Hispanic journalists [who had already broken the stories]…it seems that The Politico now also claims they own the Spanish language…,” writes Patricia Guadalupe, executive editor of the Capitol Standard. […]

    posted December 4th, 2007 at 1:32 pm | Quote

  1. 10. jon said:


    This is so dumb. Her column on Politico is called “Pop and Politics,” and deals with the more style and entertainment-type aspects of politics. It makes sense that the caricature would portray her as a socialite-type person who rubs elbows with politicians in the DC bars.

    To the person who commented about her earrings, look at the Politico website - she is wearing huge dangling earrings in her picture.

    A problem with the caricature, however, is that it doesn’t really look anything like her.

    posted December 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pm | Quote

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