FNC Producer Commits Suicide; Left Classless

By Bob Parks | July 07, 2010 | 12:44

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Julianne Rolle, 39, left, whose work had included a stint as a New York news producer, was found dead Sunday at the bottom of a cliff near the family's Rancho Palos Verdes home. Her mother, Theresa, right, died recently. (Family photo)

A young woman’s mother dies recently, she jumps off a cliff in an apparent suicide, and she just happened to work for the Fox News Channel. What do you think the left would have to say about this?

Julianna Rolle, a 39 year-old former Fox News producer, was found dead at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff last weekend in her hometown of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Authorities now say she jumped to her death.

While many of Gawker’s readers displayed the appropriate sentiments, some of the tolerant, compassionate liberals predictably showed their true colors.

Dear other Fox News employees: Julianna Rolle is a shining example for you all.
— scarletmenace

And there were more…

How can you not be depressed working for Fox News? All they do is push the agenda of lies that the world is coming to an end and it will never get better as long as Democrats hold the power? I personally could not live with the guilt of manufacturing misery for a paycheck.
— lorrigirl

Sad. Now let’s see how Fox manages to blame this on Obama.
— Weegee’s bored

I like how FNC hustled to clarify that she was “definitely not a Bureau Chief.” GFYFNC.
— GordonGartrelle

I guess she lost her balance.
Can’t. Help. It……sorry! I’m a terrible human being.
— SpicyMeatball

Well, considering that the rest of Fox News has all of the individuality of a leap (herd? pack?) of lemmings …. (crossing my fingers)
— MartyVega

Did she jump, or did Bill O’Reilly push?
— TheKenoshaKid

True to form. Meanwhile, Gawker has issued two updates — to clarify her relationship with Fox News, of course:

UPDATE: Fox News spokesman Brian Lewis tells us that Rolle was a staff field producer in the NY bureau, from May of 1997 to July of 2005. He says that she was “definitely not a Bureau Chief.”

UPDATE 2: A friend of Rolle’s writes us: “Her tenure at FNC did in fact include two different ‘tours of duty’ in Iraq. She volunteered to go and while perhaps not carrying the title, “Bureau Chief” she WAS the senior person working in the bureau calling the shots. Good to see how much Fox appreciates their former employees who risk their lives to feed their machine.”

Stay classy, Gawker. Stay classy.