Employers should have the Right to fire anyone they want to.
I believe the GOP has wanted this for many years. I guess it depends on Who gets canned. If your Right you can’t get fired, if you are Left getting fired is what you deserve??
Getting fired when you are doing the job sucks. Get over it and get on. It is a very normal part of life, unless you have some cushy deal because of your politics.
I am not crying many tears over this.
If you think this is unfair perhaps you should change the laws to make firing people for no reason much more difficult. What?? That would save too many hard working non GOP jobs.
No one has constitutional right to have multiple media networks pay them for their “analysis.” Don’t give a hoot that Williams was fired; he’s been kowtowing to Fox bosses for far too long trying to be just one of the guys. Don’t give a hoot Rick Sanchez was fired, he was a big ham who made his program mostly about him. Don’t give a hoot Dr. Laura was fired because her sponsors didn’t want to back her anymore.
None of them lost their free speech, they just talked their way out of people wanting to pay them for it.
(I’m posting my comment from another similar cartoon here as well. The idea that our public television is a ‘wing of the Democratic Party’ is such total nonsense, it requires pushing back.)
The data on public television during the Bush II administration showed that they had mostly uncontested viewpoints from the administration, mostly men and a majority of pundits from the right-wing think tanks. (I haven’t seen any more recent data). …hardly a ‘liberal’ bias. Public Television certainly blew getting accurate information to the American people about the run-up to the war, serving with the rest of the media as propaganda arms for the Bush II administration. McClatchey Newspapers were about the only near mainstream press digging and accurately reporting. (If you were reading outside the mainstream, you knew that the energy department knew those aluminum tubes were not for weapons, you knew the evidence was from ONE highly suspect snitch, and you knew that the yellow-cake story was a readily perceivable fraud. How Colin Powell failed to know is still a mystery to me.)
On public television, far right views are countered by centrist views. You rarely see anyone from the far left ..someone from the Nation every once in a great while…can’t recall ever seeing someone from Mother Jones, for example.
Like effective bullies, the right has been very good at continuing to pull the center line further and further into right-wing territory. Now, the very far right loonies are covered as if they have a reasonable position, and the moderate Republicans are decried as traitors and liberals by their own.
We need a stronger, better funded public media; we do not need to cripple it any further than it has already been crippled.
Churchill….Judge Napolitano explained that the 910 NPR radio stations operate under the NPR Headquarters in D.C. laws….that protect the employees on all NPR stations from this kind of management abuse and stripping contract personnel of free speech rights on their off-NPR-time.
I hope NPR is sued to the limit….maybe George Soros will help them pay the settlement to Juan Williams.
I also hope the new 2011 Congress passes corrective legislation and takes away all taxpayer funding from NPR and PBS.
ALL the “airwaves” are PUBLICLY OWNED!! So when AIPAC fires Sanchez, or Williams gets paid by NPR AND FOX and only gets fired for breaching his contract with one of them, should we shut down ALL broadcasters?? The “private” broadcasters shunted really stupid regulations to the owners of those PUBLIC airwaves under Michael Powell, giving the public the shaft if not the tower.
DR.C -
i guess it’s called “free speech”, and equal time.
it’s entertaining watching the “dull and ignorant”, but frightening, also.
at least we get to know who’s who and what they think the country needs.
then go out and vote against them…
Is it because NPR doesn’t shout enough that you nuts think it’s Left? I’ve never heard them advocate one side over the other. They DID however educate their listeners enough to know that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
AladdinSane over 13 years ago
R.I.P. free speech
Stoney2you over 13 years ago
Amen, brother.
napaeric over 13 years ago
Employers should have the Right to fire anyone they want to.
I believe the GOP has wanted this for many years. I guess it depends on Who gets canned. If your Right you can’t get fired, if you are Left getting fired is what you deserve??
Getting fired when you are doing the job sucks. Get over it and get on. It is a very normal part of life, unless you have some cushy deal because of your politics.
I am not crying many tears over this.
If you think this is unfair perhaps you should change the laws to make firing people for no reason much more difficult. What?? That would save too many hard working non GOP jobs.
believecommonsense over 13 years ago
No one has constitutional right to have multiple media networks pay them for their “analysis.” Don’t give a hoot that Williams was fired; he’s been kowtowing to Fox bosses for far too long trying to be just one of the guys. Don’t give a hoot Rick Sanchez was fired, he was a big ham who made his program mostly about him. Don’t give a hoot Dr. Laura was fired because her sponsors didn’t want to back her anymore.
None of them lost their free speech, they just talked their way out of people wanting to pay them for it.
jamescag over 13 years ago
NPR should try and hire Opera Winbag in place of Williams
vhammon over 13 years ago
(I’m posting my comment from another similar cartoon here as well. The idea that our public television is a ‘wing of the Democratic Party’ is such total nonsense, it requires pushing back.)
The data on public television during the Bush II administration showed that they had mostly uncontested viewpoints from the administration, mostly men and a majority of pundits from the right-wing think tanks. (I haven’t seen any more recent data). …hardly a ‘liberal’ bias. Public Television certainly blew getting accurate information to the American people about the run-up to the war, serving with the rest of the media as propaganda arms for the Bush II administration. McClatchey Newspapers were about the only near mainstream press digging and accurately reporting. (If you were reading outside the mainstream, you knew that the energy department knew those aluminum tubes were not for weapons, you knew the evidence was from ONE highly suspect snitch, and you knew that the yellow-cake story was a readily perceivable fraud. How Colin Powell failed to know is still a mystery to me.)
On public television, far right views are countered by centrist views. You rarely see anyone from the far left ..someone from the Nation every once in a great while…can’t recall ever seeing someone from Mother Jones, for example.
Like effective bullies, the right has been very good at continuing to pull the center line further and further into right-wing territory. Now, the very far right loonies are covered as if they have a reasonable position, and the moderate Republicans are decried as traitors and liberals by their own.
We need a stronger, better funded public media; we do not need to cripple it any further than it has already been crippled.
disgustedtaxpayer over 13 years ago
Churchill….Judge Napolitano explained that the 910 NPR radio stations operate under the NPR Headquarters in D.C. laws….that protect the employees on all NPR stations from this kind of management abuse and stripping contract personnel of free speech rights on their off-NPR-time.
I hope NPR is sued to the limit….maybe George Soros will help them pay the settlement to Juan Williams.
I also hope the new 2011 Congress passes corrective legislation and takes away all taxpayer funding from NPR and PBS.
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
ALL the “airwaves” are PUBLICLY OWNED!! So when AIPAC fires Sanchez, or Williams gets paid by NPR AND FOX and only gets fired for breaching his contract with one of them, should we shut down ALL broadcasters?? The “private” broadcasters shunted really stupid regulations to the owners of those PUBLIC airwaves under Michael Powell, giving the public the shaft if not the tower.
jamescag over 13 years ago
That is exactly why we have “Fox News” Dr Canuck … to enlighten the dull and the ignorant ….
jamescag over 13 years ago
Maybe in your case … some ignorance just can’t be cured …
myming over 13 years ago
DR.C - i guess it’s called “free speech”, and equal time. it’s entertaining watching the “dull and ignorant”, but frightening, also. at least we get to know who’s who and what they think the country needs. then go out and vote against them…
lalas over 13 years ago
Is it because NPR doesn’t shout enough that you nuts think it’s Left? I’ve never heard them advocate one side over the other. They DID however educate their listeners enough to know that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.