[Mind-numbed Robot]

.... got Coulter fired from the National Review. Coulter contended that the conservative periodical let her contract run out.

Wrong! Coulter said that she worked for Human Events and that National Review simply dropped her syndicated column. You can't be fired by someone you don't work for.

[FairWitness]

Wrong! Coulter said that she worked for Human Events and that National Review simply dropped her syndicated column. You can't be fired by someone you don't work for.

Just so. It would be as if a TV station in Peoria Illinois dropped the Today show in order to run a local show. Would Katie then describe herself as being "fired" by the local station.

[nravoter]

Wrong! Coulter said that she worked for Human Events and that National Review simply dropped her syndicated column. You can't be fired by someone you don't work for.

Exactly. National Review was simply a consumer of a product, specifically, Ann Coulter's column. Saying that they fired her by no longer running her column is like saying I'm "firing" the CEO of Ford because I'm buying a Chevy.