Girly Boy Goldberg, also, fired Ann Coulter for her comments about his Islamic buddies after 9/11.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/537772/posts
Fired Conservative Columnist Anne Coulter Getting 'Great Publicity'
CNS News ^ | 10/2/01
Posted on 10/02/2001 9:14:04 AM PDT by truthandlife
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, fired from her contributing editor perch at the National Review Online, blames it on free-speech hysteria in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a recent online column, Coulter opined that the United States should respond forcefully to the terrorist attacks: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," she said. The comment provoked an uproar, and the National Review Online subsequently refused to run another Coulter piece in which she referred to "swarthy males." When Coulter complained, she was fired. Tuesday's Washington Post quotes Coulter as saying she doesn't need friends like that. "Every once in awhile they'll throw one of their people to the wolves to get good press in left-wing publications," she told the newspaper. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg told the Post, "We didn't feel we wanted to be associated with the comments expressed in those two columns." Coulter told the Washington Post she's getting great publicity as a result of the flap.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/537772/posts
I was a pretty regular reader of Goldberg's up until that time. Haven't read him much since, except when he's reposted here.
You have to admit, Coulter's line about converting them all to Christianity is more memorable than anything he's written. And (truth be told) more on the mark than almost anything written by anyone else, since.
As you probably know, National Review didn't fire Coulter. They stopped carrying her column.
There's a big difference.
If the LA Times dropped Goldberg's column, would anyone say they had fired him?