Posted on 09/13/2013 5:52:07 PM PDT by virtuous
Our entire nation is in severe need of a spiritual Third Awakening.
Craig James is an ass though. Expected his son to get preferential treatment at Texas Tech and had a fit when it didn’t happen.
You mean he didn’t get fired for killing five hookers? ;)
...unless they are Islamic or unbiblically liberal.
Whatever you think of Craig James, it would seem that he has a great case for a lawsuit here. What he said was not in the context of a sports broadcaster and there is nothing to suggest that his views on the subject would come up during a sports broadcast.
He’s not being fired for what he said as an ESPN or Fox broadcaster and he’s not being fired for any type of illegal activity. He was engaged in a political debate discussing a political topic.
I’m also guessing that if you dug deep enough into the vaults of Terry Bradshaw interviews over the years, you would find comments that would today be viewed as “homophobic” or “anti-gay”. But Bradshaw still has a job with Fox.
The real issue, of course, is that someone in the homosexual community chose to bring up these comments to Fox because they found them “hateful” and demanded a response. Fox had already found James suitable as a football commentator because they hired him for such. It would have done no good for James to argue he was being misquoted.
Fox hired James to do a job and they are not arguing he did his job poorly or not up to the network’s standards. Rather, they are firing him solely on the reaction to what he said in a political discussion not carried by the sports network.
I think James has a case but one would have to know what conduct clauses were in his contract and whether he signed it before or after he became a candidate for the U.S. Senate. For all we know, they may have fired him because they didn’t know he was a (gasp!) Republican.
James should sue.
Meanwhile, KO has a gig on ESPN and everything is just fine.
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