[Timesink]

Bwa-ha-haaaa! That must be a record for total media capitulation to viewer outrage! Talk about folding like a cheap suit! I figured it would at least take a full business day for NBC and National Geographic to realize what a crisis they had on their hands; instead it was all settled in the middle of the night on Monday morning!

Anyway, if Arnett at least had the balls to apologize live on-air (which he did, so much and so often that it was almost sad), so can I. I hereby apologize to NatGeo for saying they were a bunch of leftists that would be downright gleeful about his comments and the anger they caused. I still think they're a bunch of leftists, but at least they've got the brains to realize when they've really crossed the line.

[Pikachu_Dad]

It was much too early for viewer outrage to get him.

This was BIG BOSS outrage, pure and simple.

[Just mythoughts]

It is good they fired Arnett, but I want his partner in crime Brian Williams gone as well.

Williams is the commentator that compared the first day of the bombing of Baghdad to Dresden, and while waiting for the Pentagon press conference slurred Bush and said they were waiting for the Rummy "swagger" in to the briefing room.

[Sam Cree]

Is the Grosvenor family still involved with National Geographic?

[not_apathetic_anymore]

I haven't read all the replies yet someone else probably already posted something along these lines...

I HOPE that all the public furor is what caused them to quickly rethink yesterday's statement of "professional courtesy" interview. What I really wonder is this: were there back channel discussions between the administration and the networks saying you'll never ask another question in a press conference unless you dump Arnett.

However it happened I'm glad it did, and I hope public sentiment was involved!