How to get Fired, by Michael Graham

Townhall.com ^ | 08/23/2005 | Michael Graham

[Tatze]

Simply amazing, but not at all surprising from ABC. I did hear that he was hired by a station in LA though. Hopefully its a better deal than he had at ABC.

[thoughtomator]

What happened to Graham is a national disgrace.

[FairfaxVA]

Hopefully they will have an internet stream so I can listen in.

[TexanByBirth]

This is the new, mainstream media standard for employment: You are far more likely to get fired for telling the truth than you are for telling a lie.

This statement not only applies to the mainstream media standard for employment....but their editorial standard as well....

[kromike]

We should all, from here on out, refer to that organization as "CAIR-orrists"

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This might be the best thing that could have happened to Mr. Graham.

Now everybody knows who he is.

[rockrr]

I caught an interview with Michael this morning. He said that KFI in Los Angeles had offered some fill-in spots for him, but that they hadn't fired him fulltime.

It was a good interview from someone I hadn't previously heard. I wish him well!

[caisson71]

Graham is someone who has stood for the truth, as he sees it. He has as much right to say what he did - more so in my opinion - than Cindy Sheehan. There needs to be more Grahams out there and the American people had better stand up and support them.

[RockinRight]

If he plays his cards right...he can now break into the big-time!

If Michael Savage can have a national radio show so can this guy!

[Mears]

CAIR is an organization we should watch,and watch carefully. We have free speech in the USA---don't they get it?
Shame on ABC !

[TADSLOS]

Right Talk

[Tatze]

Well, thats the truth. Its still a disgrace that he gets fired for speaking his (demonstrably factual) opinion.

[jim macomber]

And it didn't stop there:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456287/posts

It never does.

[martin_fierro]

Getting drummed out of talk radio by CAIR is like being chased out of your junior-high teacher's job by the guys at the North American Man-Boy Love Association.

Heh!

[johnb838]

I believe WABC canned Savage a while back as well. Not that anybody really likes Savage... he seems to go out of his way to make himself unloveable.

[43north]

It also applies to employees of most major corporations as well.

[Doomonyou]

Getting drummed out of talk radio by CAIR is like being chased out of your junior-high teacher's job by the guys at the North American Man-Boy Love Association.

Ouch!

[COBOL2Java]

CAIR didn't just muzzle Michael Graham. All the talk show hosts at WMAL now know what they are NOT allowed to discuss. Before turning them off for good, I listened for a little while longer to the remaining hosts, and they are all studiously avoiding any reference to Islam or CAIR.

WMAL has been castrated, and it shows.

[johnb838]

Ungh. Not just the media. You have to be vewy careful what truths you tell anywhere in this country if you want to keep on working. People don't realize it but this IS the Soviet Union Lite, with better TV and better Music. Sort of a Bird in a Gilded Cage kind of arrangement.

[TBP]

If I had called the Catholic Church a haven for pedophiles because I believed their doctrine of priestly celibacy caused pedophilia, I would still have my talk-radio job today. If I had called the Christian faith a terror-sponsoring organization because of abortion-clinic and Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph, I would still be an employee of the ABC Radio Company. I know, because I hear these arguments made in the media nearly every day.

Political correctness.