Calpundit on Easterbrook

UPDATE: Was this instead a reaction to the fact that Easterbrook took a shot at Disney and Michael Eisner, which owns ESPN? I sure hope not. Sure, normally you expect employees not to criticize the boss, but journalism is different. If Easterbrook got fired for that, it's not much different than firing Peter Jennings for airing a news story critical of Disney. In other words, it would be even worse than getting fired for what he said about Jews.

Well, no, not quite. If this is what happened, he got fired not for calling his company evil, but for calling his boss evil. I'd bet if he left those last two grafs off the piece, and just ran a slam on the movie he would be fine, even though he would have been criticizing his own company. But he went a step further and personally insulted his boss.

I'm not saying it's right, but if you call your boss a greedy Jew in public, you shouldn't be surprised if he fires you.