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TV reporter fired after writing Facebook post praising Trump
The New York Post ^ | November 18, 2016 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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)

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: obama; television; texas; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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/


21 posted on 11/18/2016 10:26:37 AM PST by bgill (From theStick to the traditionl CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She gets fired for being right.


22 posted on 11/18/2016 10:28:31 AM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Starboard
Just like voter id only affects democrat constituents.
23 posted on 11/18/2016 10:29:59 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: Tudorfly

If she was a lib she’d say she was harassed and file huge lawsuits


24 posted on 11/18/2016 10:32:26 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has anybody checked into the Fakhar name? I hear “pride.”


25 posted on 11/18/2016 10:33:45 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lots of hate coming from the commie libs out there. Lots of hate.


26 posted on 11/18/2016 10:34:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need the Second Amendment to defend the Second Amendment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?


27 posted on 11/18/2016 10:38:04 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Timpanagos1

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.


28 posted on 11/18/2016 10:42:14 AM PST by lodi90 (President Trump - Has a nice ring to it!)
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To: capydick
Oh, wait...she's white.
Never mind; I thought there might be a case here.
29 posted on 11/18/2016 10:44:19 AM PST by stormhill
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To: muggs

p i n g


30 posted on 11/18/2016 10:46:50 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do people post on facebook and tweeter? All it does is get them into trouble.


31 posted on 11/18/2016 10:49:33 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Own a rifle. Be an American.)
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To: All

I see no problem at all for her moving up...


32 posted on 11/18/2016 10:51:02 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t believe no one’s said ‘I’d Fakhar’ yet... Y’all are slipping.


33 posted on 11/18/2016 10:53:35 AM PST by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: isom35

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.


34 posted on 11/18/2016 10:56:21 AM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The time has come when “Telling The Truth” is a Revolutionary Act.

(Paraphrasing George Orwell)


35 posted on 11/18/2016 11:11:53 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: b4its2late
Fox....yes, she is.


36 posted on 11/18/2016 11:28:18 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: capydick

Hot as doughnut grease


37 posted on 11/18/2016 11:32:50 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Timpanagos1

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.


38 posted on 11/18/2016 12:00:44 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bgill

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......;)


39 posted on 11/18/2016 12:09:00 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: JBW1949
I see no problem at all for her moving up...

Or down.

Or both, pause and repeat.

40 posted on 11/18/2016 12:11:54 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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