Ultimajock said:
Don62 said:
Errr..... she didn't say it on radio. It was a stand-up appearance.
...too bad AAR isn't turning out to be much of a stand-up company ;-( ...
I'm a little dismayed to read this thread -- not that it's bad -- it's just typical of what people are saying on blogs everywhere about the RR suspension. They want to lynch RR because she swore, or because she denounced HRC, or just because they don't like "Liberals."
Nowhere do most posters deal with the free speech, privacy, and employer issues that this whole event raises. They are like a whole pack of big, wet dogs at the dinner table that the rest of us are all supposed to ignore.
There have to be lines, boys and girls. Employers should not be able to punish employees for what they say at private events (this was legally a private event), unless they advocate violence -- and even then; it would probably be a matter for the FBI or the local police. Employers don't have the right to do just anything to their employees in the name of -- well, anything they dream up. If we have standards, they have to be precise and they have to be there for a demonstrable, specific business reason, and the reason has to tie in to legal or financial harm actually done -- not just the general potential for harm or loss. Air America had neither precise standards, nor did they have reasons, nor did they suffer harm, nor were they about to. It's crazy.
I think broadcasters are too full of themselves these days to run good businesses, or produce good on-air shows. Cutting corners only makes it worse for them. Their main problem is what Air America's CEO just did -- suspending his leading talent (and harming his own company) because he apparently disagrees with her views; and this in a broadcasting enterprise whose mission is to present controversial views that many listeners will disagree with. This guy's own arrogance is harming his company. He is the dog at his own dinner table.
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