Posted on 11/18/2016 10:07:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Texas television reporter is out of a job after she criticized President Obama and praised President-elect Donald Trump on her personal Facebook page — claiming the country went “downhill” under the outgoing commander-in-chief.
Scarlett Fakhar said she was recently canned from her local news gig at Fox in Houston for posting last week that she was “happy and relieved” over Trump’s unexpected White House win.
Fakhar had said in the post, which has since been deleted, that Obama made the “entire county hate one another” and claimed God “had a hand” in the election. She also said she could “barely sleep from how happy and relieved she was” after Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
“Fox 26 Houston fired me today for expressing my conservative views on my private Facebook page,” Fakhar posted Thursday. “That is all I will say for you. But I want you to know how much your support has gotten me through this. God bless you all.”(continued)
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No surprise Saudi owned Faux fired her. No surprise this happened in Houston, home of Sheila “Don’t you know who I am” Jackson-Lee.
Houston also elected a white guy because they thought he was black - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-candidate-wins-after-leading-tex-voters-to-think-hes-black/
She gets fired for being right.
If she was a lib she’d say she was harassed and file huge lawsuits
Has anybody checked into the Fakhar name? I hear “pride.”
Lots of hate coming from the commie libs out there. Lots of hate.
Asserting 1st Amendment rights aside, whatever happened to keeping your own counsel and playing your cards close to the chest?
Easiest way to get in trouble these days is to tweet your thoughts or post them to Facebook.
Yes, the station manager is a partisan jerk but she must have known this.
The key to the Trump victory was millions of voters keeping their mouths shut and/or lying to pollsters until the moment of truth arrived in the voting booth.
Hope things work out for her but why make yourself a target?
Most importantly, Channel 26 ratings are low, very low at the worst in Houston TV news.
All of that gets you fired.
Looks like she baited them. On to bigger and better things. LOL.
p i n g
Why do people post on facebook and tweeter? All it does is get them into trouble.
I see no problem at all for her moving up...
Can’t believe no one’s said ‘I’d Fakhar’ yet... Y’all are slipping.
Would be a welcome relief to the others on FOX. Among their other noteable contributors is Quanelle X who makes Sharpton look like a beginner.
Really, really liberal station in the solid Blue Houston area.
The time has come when “Telling The Truth” is a Revolutionary Act.
(Paraphrasing George Orwell)
Hot as doughnut grease
She didnt write this at work. Or on air.
She did it on her own time on her personal facebook account.
I doubt there was a clause in a reporters contract stating outside of the station she had to completely give up her right to personal free speech and expression.
Houston, my hometown isn’t even close to the one I grew up in. I can’t watch Fox26......so borrrrring and drab. This young woman will have another chance by someone who has an audience larger than the 500 viewers Fox26 has. Good luck Miss Scarlett......;)
Or down.
Or both, pause and repeat.
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