Yeah, a jerk, still in this freak country anyone ought to have a freedom to be a jerk in private even if it’s a sin. Why is this about the only kind of jerkiness that is cared about any more? How about how Barack Obama has been a jerk for over four years?
He did have a right to say it and his employer had a right to fire him. He didn’t say it in private. He said it at his place of employment. But besides all of that it most definitely was not a compliment.