Show-Me State reporter shown the door over "Osama Bin Laden formally joins the American Left..." Twitter posting
February 03, 2010 3:17 pm ET by Karl Frisch
On Friday we noted that Steve Walsh, a radio reporter in Missouri, had posted the following to his Twitter profile:
Taking to his personal blog today, Walsh announced that his employment had "come to an end" because of the controversy surrounding his offensive Tweet (emphasis added):
For almost a decade I had the pleasure of serving as a political reporter and news anchor covering stories in Jefferson City and beyond. But that "assignment" as we call it in the radio business has come to an end.
Truth be told, it didn't come as a surprise as I had been told that a cascade of complaints regarding something I had tweeted on my personal Twitter account had led to some difficult moments for folks at my company. My news director went so far as to tell me, on Friday, that there was a good chance I might have to go. And it came to pass.
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Yup, it was a joke. But the left wing blogosphere got hold of it and went nuts. It was an attempt at humor, but clearly I had struck a nerve - causing considerable angst among the folks at Fired Up! Missouri here in the Show-Me State and Media Matters on the national level. I forgot a cardinal rule - never poke fun at someone's religion. My humor led to a backlash from those for whom global warming - or climate change as it is called when the weather turns cold - is a sacred religious belief. The furor has yet to die down.
So, the bottom line here is that I am out of work. It's interesting that I poke fun at the religion of global warming the same week MSNBC's Chris Matthews says of President Obama following the State of the Union Address, "I forgot he was black tonight." And Matthews is still rolling along. Very interesting, indeed!
I want it made clear I hold no animosity toward my former employer and the employees. In fact, I regret having put the company in this position. I will miss the place after almost a decade. But I have made friends, through the job, who will remain friends for a lifetime. Jobs come and go but friends are to be treasured.
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I am sure Hannity has booked him already.
Loser.
It was a business decision - just as keeping Matthews appears to be a business decision.
So, go cry.
He claims that the problem is that people who believe in man-made global warming have turned it into a religion, and he's simply a victim of that!
He's not a victim. He's the perpetrator. He's the one who chose to declare that Osama Bin Laden is aligned with the left.
Not to mention that he clearly is misinformed about global warming and climate change, and is one of those fools who doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate. Top that off with his disastrous misunderstanding about what constitutes a joke, and he's no victim of anything other than his own behavior. Yet he pretends that it's others that did this to him.
When did conservatives become the party of Whiners?
Smile! You've just been exposed as the rw hack that you are, and it's your fault.
Ya know, at least until you actually understand what happened - you demonizing Americans with incite-ful rhetoric. You have no one else to blame here, dude. Own up.
From my point of view, this guy can say almost anything he wants, as a U.S. citizen. As a journalist however; he needs to be careful about crossing lines.
If this Twitter account was fully seperate from his job, then I don't have an issue with it. However; if he ever mentioned on air to follow him on his Twitter account, then he is mixing his business with his personal life and he needs to know where the line is.
Other than that, he does seem somewhat of a whine baby.
It had to be for being offensive. It's against the law to fire a media person for being wrong.
something I had tweeted on my personal Twitter account
Twitter is in the public domain. If you use it, you're to be held accountable for what you say.
Yup, it was a joke.
And what was the indication of that at the time? (cue the crickets)
This is the standard "joke" defense, wherein someone says something abominable and then claims it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously, thus serving the dual purpose of getting away with ridiculous vitriol and accusing his opponents of having no sense of humor. If Walsh actually thinks this sort of thing is funny, then that's evidence of his own lack.
But the left wing blogosphere got hold of it and went nuts.
"Got hold of it"? Once again, it was in the public domain. They simply read it, like anyone else could have. Furthermore, they "went nuts" by repeating it verbatim, and exposing Walsh's ignorant statement to the masses.
It was an attempt at humor,
Shot down earlier.
but clearly I had struck a nerve - causing considerable angst among the folks at Fired Up! Missouri here in the Show-Me State and Media Matters on the national level.
So where's the apology? If you strike a nerve, especially if you do it unintentionally, you should be man enough to say you're sorry.
I forgot a cardinal rule - never poke fun at someone's religion. My humor led to a backlash from those for whom global warming - or climate change as it is called when the weather turns cold - is a sacred religious belief.
So, instead of apologizing, or at least admitting that his "humor" is nonexistent, he doubles his offensiveness by claiming that global warming is a religion. As a fundamentalist Christian, I take strong exception to that, as would anyone else who is serious about his or her beliefs.
It's interesting that I poke fun at the religion of global warming
No, what Walsh did was to align Osama Bin Laden with the American left. Funny how this weak mea culpa makes no mention of Bin Laden, isn't it?
the same week MSNBC's Chris Matthews says of President Obama following the State of the Union Address, "I forgot he was black tonight." And Matthews is still rolling along. Very interesting, indeed!
It would be interesting if Walsh's attempt to portray MMFA as hypocritical held any water, but Matthews' statement was highlighted here as well as a further example to be scorned.
In sum, Walsh did a miserable job. I wonder if there's a term for when a person does something immensely stupid, and, in his effort to explain his actions, makes himself look even more foolish. O'Keefe, anyone?
A new thread has appeared recently concerning a separate investigation conducted by the European Law Enforcement Organization Cooperation (aka Europol). Investigators have found evidence of a complex carbon-trading scam on the European Climate Exchange.
With 31 billion of carbon credits being sold in the UE there are huge tax deductions and profits that can be realized. Carbon credits is an entirely new currency that would be very attractive to profiteers.
This entire man made global warming hoax is being exposed. Many of the leaders of the movement are heavily invested in companies that will make huge profits from money being spent to combat AGW.
Just follow the money and we will see where it leads. Stiff prison sentances for the ringleaders is in order here.
1. antarctica had the most sea ice ever recorded in 2008
2. antarctica had the smallest summer ice melt ever recorded in 2009
3. polar bear populations are today the largest ever recorded
4. global hurricanes and intensity are the lowest in 50 years
5. solar actitivity is at the lowest level in a century
6. sea level has been rising for 20,000 years, and the rate is slowing
7. there were three ice ages with more CO2 than today, one had fifteen times more
8. when you add the sea ice at both poles, there is almost no loss of overall sea ice over the past 30 years. Antarctic ice has grown almost replacing all the ice lost in the Arctic. Antarctica wont melt anytime soon, the average temperature is
-58 deg F.
9. satellite data shows atmospheric temperatures have been cooling for 8 years
10. 3,300 argo sea buoys show ocean temperatures are cooling
11. US temperatures in 2008 were below the 115 year average
12. US summer 2009 temperatures were the 34th coolest in 115 years
13. US October temperatures were the 3rd coldest in 115 years
14. US December temperatures were the 4th coldest in 115 years
15. We are getting two feet of snow here today in Washington.
Yea, I know, it is getting colder because it is getting warmer.
Hoax, Fraud.
GP