Reply #15: "Crucified?" Is that what you consider being disagreed with? [View All]

[No Elephants]

I don't know why you think this man has a "right" to do whatever he wants on his own time. Or that speaking at a Tea Party rally does not is not connected to his job.

Rights are usually against governments and his employer is not the government. When people take certain kinds of jobs with private employers, they trade away all kinds of "rights" as to what they can do or say, even on their own time.

People in the public eye have morals type clauses in their contracts. Anytime something they do becomes the subject of negative feedback, they can be fired. Actresses used to contract not to get pregnant while a movie was filming or a TV series continued, and so on.

Anyway, see Reply #12. He probably had a contractual obligation to comport with journalistic ethics. News is supposed to be objective. IMO, his actions cost his station's news department a lot of crediblity in terms of appearing to be objective; and he should have been fired, not only suspended.