CBS fires Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad.

[kpete]

CBS fires Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad.

Iraq veteran Gen. John Batiste “has been asked to leave his position as a consultant to CBS News” over a new VoteVets ad criticizing the Iraq war. He was interviewed tonight by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.

Ad & Video at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/10/cbs-fires-gen-batiste-over-votevets-ad/

[FrenchieCat]

1. What was the reason for firing him? Is it stated?

I hope it wasn't because he made a commercial criticizing the President's fucked up strategy! :mad:

[Me.]

2. Shame On CBS

hope it backfires

[Dinger]

3. Not Surprised. Why Do repukes HATE America???

This is disgusting, but something tells me it's no skin off Batiste's ass. AFter all, they have to keep their ratings up, since they're so high:sarcasm:

[WillyT]

4. These Next Two Years Are Gonna Be War... Right Here, If This Shit Keeps Up !!!

Watch for the maneuvers against the internet my friends. They are working hard to stop the free flow of ideas. So far, we are the only voices that they cannot silence.

:evilfrown:

[Wednesdays]

15. Maybe not for long...

If they put in tighter controls with the "new Internet" that's being proposed. :scared:

[rpannier]

5. Well he did criticize the little dictator afterall

I mean when you criticize scrubbie, o'lielly or insannity that's character assassination -- Don't you listen to the o'lielly factor?

[OHdem10]

6. Amazing how the Corporate Media fall in lockstep

Corporate Execs do not like to make the WH unhappy.

And we have a "Free Media"??????

[RL3AO]

7. Rediculous.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. If they fired him because he no longer represents an unbiased opinion

I would think virtually every person in America has by now taken a strong stand one way or another on this war and the administration's running of it, whether they voice it publicly or not. If a General came out in favor of Bush's Iraq war strategy, and also happened to be a CBS consultant, I wonder if they would dump him.

[Texas_Kat]

10. Like the rest of the do?

Yeah he has an opinion and he's entitled to it. Even Fox isn't this bad.

[MADem]

14. No longer represents a corporate PROWAR position, you mean.. NT

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Librul media at it again

:silly:

[TahitiNut]

11. General Electric pulls rank on General Batiste

:shrug:

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. I thought GE owned NBC?....EOM

[TahitiNut]

18. Yeah ... but it was too close to pass on.

:silly:

[MADem]

13. Heh, he and Imus and Al Sharpton oughta band together and do a show on Sirius satellite radio!

They could call it "The Banished" or "The Excoriated"...

[Beausoir]

16. KKK Katie...be my KKK Kommerad.

This is just the latest in the sad and swift decline of CBS.

Maybe Katie can have Rush Limbaugh on again...to offer the official CBS statement.

[young_at_heart]

17. So glad we stopped watching CBS News......he had every right to do this

Started watching in 1959 and stopped when they added Katie.

[Kat45]

19. I wonder if Fox will fire Gen. Clark when his ad comes out?

There are two more of those VoteVets ads coming out. I forget who the general is in the second ad (coming out next week), but I know Gen. Clark is in the third ad.

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. Major General Paul Eaton is in the second ad....eom

[bobbolink]

20. If MSNBC has any smarts, they will snap him up in a hurry!

[havocmom]

21. And they gave Imus how many chances over DECADES of bad behavior?

Any questions, America?

I hope Walter Cronkite takes them to task.

[otohara]

23. CBS Going For Lower Ratings?

first Limbaugh on the first week of Katie debut, now Batiste fired. CBS trying to lose liberal viewers on purpose.