Nolan apparently is confused. The concept of tenure only applies to teachers, a career which he is now free to pursue.

And regarding lawnwork or car detailing, we already have several million 'guests' in the USA handling that.   

I thought free speech was the right only liberals had wherein they could say whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, to whomever they wanted, without even being criticized.

This right, of course, is not extended to conservatives since whatever comes from conservatives' lips is by definition racist, sexist, bigoted, offensive or otherwise unacceptable to any civilized secular society.

Just try praying over your lunch in the public school system.

Just try writing an op-ed opposing gay marriage.

Just try giving a pro-Israel speech at a college.

Just try questioning APGW....and see how far you get.

It is the 'Left' which hates free-speech.

Nothing against Bill O'Reilly, I never watch him, but what's he doing getting a Boston award?

When the Gretchen Carlson Show is over, I'm pretty much done watching news.

I know this is off topic but wanted to make sure people know. I don't normally watch but did watch O'Reilly after the news broke and he was pretty hard on him. I'm sure he'll be soft on him in person, but still it's probably the hardest interview he'll get.

Watching the interview on O'reilly right now, and it's pretty funny. I mean, McClellan keeps saying he wants to end the partisanship of Washington, so what does he do? Write a partisan hit piece attacking President Bush, lol.

i'll just bet he thought trent lott should had been removed from his position even though his job required him to speak for a living. i'm just sure this reporter was very upset and screaming to the sky that it's so unfair trent lott was booted for exercizing his right to free speech. i wonder if anyone can dig up some his old reports and see if he was critical of trent lott, i'll bet he was all a twitter in glee at to trent lotts fate? i just wonder. i'm sure the hipocracy is just oozing from this guy. oh by the way, he posts on liberal websites but the media has no bias, waaahahahahahaha.

you lost you're job because you do a lousey job. now go get a real job.

just using trent lott as an example here, not that i really liked trent lott, i'm  tired of all the sissy, cowardly, spineless psuedo republicans that are in office and are run in fear anytime a liberals points a finger at them. where are the good republicans like reagan?

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Since the TV station owns editorial content, it has every right to fire someone who steps outside the limits of its guidelines. This reporter's free speech would only be violated if he owned the station and the government shut him down for saying what he said.

In short, the reporter is using twisted, "sour grapes" logic (or should I say "illogic"?)

Free speech never gives you the right to just any forum (ever tried free speech in a court room?), to say absolutely anything you want (conspiracy to commit murder with others is not free speech, for example), and certainly when you work for others your speech is limited to their policies as a condition of employment (you give up free speech rights in exchange for compensation -- ever try to give away trade secrets in the name of free speech; bet you find yourself in jail).

To quote myself from a previous thread, "If the Bush administration is so intent on silencing its enemies as
these idiots would like us to believe, how come I can't escape hearing
at least one idiot EVERY DAY declaiming that the Bush adminstration is silencing its enemies? WHERE'S THE SILENCE????????????"

Lee T.

U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain