On 10/28/2010 5:23 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
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says...
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?
Yes, and Imus, and....
As a news reporter, and not a commentator, Ms. Thomas should have kept
her opinions to herself until she retired.
Rick Sanchez went after his bosses and employers and thus probably
deserved firing for demonstrating stupidity. Has Fox offered him a
contract yet?
Juan Williams probably was offered a $2 million contract if he could say
something insensitive enough to get himself fired by NPR.
Don Imus made some grossly racist remarks and deserved firing by a
network that had no business engaging in such behavior by one of its
hosts. I lost track of him; what's he doing these days?