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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:30:35 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:37:44 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

I trust you have the best intentions... I just know how tough it is for
my kid to be in a Social Studies class with a openly regressive teacher
who's car sports a bumper sticker saying "impeach Bush, torture Cheney".
She is a bright kid and knows how to play the game, she has the highest
grades in the class and it's not even her they are grading

You present an interesting paradox. On the one hand, you lament what you
perceive as a decline in freedom of speech and on the other hand, you
lament your kid's teacher expressing his or her freedom of speech on a
bumper sticker.

I suppose it is just context. Are you saying Helen Thomas, Rick
Sanchez and Juan Williams should not have been fired?

Freedom of speech and being paid as a journalist (not a paid
pontificator) are two different things.

Juan Williams was out of line but probably shouldn't have been fired
for the specific offense. He has certainly been treading on thin ice
with his ever larger presence at Fox -- who, by the way, is not a free
speech advocate but certainly welcomed Williams' endorsement of Muslim
fear.

Helen Thomas let her personal feelings get in the way of reporting and
Sanchez simply ****ed off the people who employed him by spitting in
their faces.

I don't think I'd be eager to keep an employee who spit in my face.