ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail

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ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.

John Green, whose unpaid suspension will last one month, apologized to the White House in a call to communications director Nicolle Wallace, while two ABC executives called the former secretary of state to apologize.

"No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate."

In one of the e-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004 and leaked to the Drudge Report, Green wrote to a colleague on his BlackBerry: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101725_pf.html

[tatertop]

1. Soon he will learn to love Big Brother

We all will

[tom_paine]

2. Not loving The Leader can get you into trouble

Down to Room 101 with a cageful of rats ready to gnaw through your face.

I'd ask if this was still America, but we all know it isn't.

Heil Bushler!

[TomInTib]

3. Come on, it was the Albright quip that got him. n/t

[dogday]

4. Leaked Emails?

To whom were they written and how were they intercepted is what I would like to know......

[RagingInMiami]

5. In most media companies

A person who leaks internal e-mails is terminated immediately.

[madokie]

6. sometimes I wonder if they may be coming for some of us for the names

that I and others have used to describe the blivet, and sometimes I wonder if that is what the cabal have in mind on the detention camps that halliburton are building now.

[Cha]

7. Thank you, John Green!

Took one for the team, didya? Think of all the people that are going to read your email and think..hmmmmmmmmm, bushitler is a repetitive sonavabitch!

[johnnie]

8. Private emails?

Pffft...there is no privacy in bush's America.

[liberal N proud]

9. And the right still complains that the media is too librul

[NoodleyAppendage]

10. How dare he speak out or have an opinion of Der Fuhrer...

Just like pre-1938 Germany (or any other fascist state), the first level of social control is implemented by controlling those who provide information to the public. Be afraid...be very afraid. The tools for social control are even more sophisticated now.

J

[Mythsaje]

11. Damn sorry I have an opinion...

What gets me is that people don't realize that he's done nothing wrong.

[NightOwwl]

12. Here's the email I sent ABC...

I think your decision to suspend an employee for a 4-year-old email critical of the President is so over the top it is frightening.

Punishing someone for speaking harshly of the President smacks of fascism. Before you write me off as a "loony lefty", please note that I am a 39-year-old college-educated businesswoman.

If actions such as yours become commonplace, we should be afraid...very afraid indeed, of the direction this country is headed.