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Bush Heckler Sacked
Scotsman News ^ | 08/21/04

Posted on 08/21/2004 7:29:19 PM PDT by crusty codger

A man who heckled US President George Bush at a political rally has been fired from his job at an advertising and design company.

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To: crusty codger
He was escorted from a high school on Tuesday after shouting comments about the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. The crowd drowned out Mr Hiller by chanting: “Four more years.”

“They see my actions as negative,” Mr Hiller said, adding that he would do the same thing again.


He cannot understand how this made his employer's client feel. He doesn't even see anything at all wrong with what he did or the way he acted, when he was there as a guest of a client. What is he, a psychopath?
61 posted on 08/21/2004 7:58:35 PM PDT by kenth
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To: crusty codger; Conspiracy Guy; MeekOneGOP

"I am a Republican Union member who has voted Republican since Nixon and now realize's what/why the rest of America hates about your kind. But I will still vote for GWB because JFnK is a lying Communist!"



Methinks doth does protest too much.


62 posted on 08/21/2004 7:58:57 PM PDT by bad company ((<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism))
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To: crusty codger
I am a Republican Union member who has voted Republican since Nixon and now realize's what/why the rest of America hates about your kind.

Sorry, buddy, but you are wrong. This firing was 100% justified. If he had been at the event on his own, he could heckle to his heart's content, and no one could have said anything. But he went with the company on a client invite ... he was obliged to conduct himself accordingly, which means that he cannot embarrass the client.

63 posted on 08/21/2004 8:03:31 PM PDT by spodefly (This post meets the minimum daily requirements for cynicism and irony.)
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To: crusty codger
just exactly WHAT part of insulted the client and embarrased his company don't you understand???
64 posted on 08/21/2004 8:04:32 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: crusty codger
You post an article about a business, follow it with your opinion (which happens to be a stance against a business), and find that your opinion is unpopular. Therefore, you fall back on a gross generalization to vilify those with whom you disagree -- specifically "your kind". Then you claim some form of moral superiority. That MO seems familiar to me... and yet you claim to not be a leftist?
65 posted on 08/21/2004 8:05:24 PM PDT by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: citizenK

I a gree with CitizenK on this matter.

This is a question of ethic.
This heckler should have not use the goodwill of the client of his company he work for.

If he want to protest the rally then she should have stand outside holding a sign.


66 posted on 08/21/2004 8:06:45 PM PDT by frankcastle
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To: crusty codger; All
Related thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196362/posts-Graphic designer fired after heckling Bush

67 posted on 08/21/2004 8:06:46 PM PDT by Kaslin (It took Kerry 40 minutes to react on September 11, 2001)
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To: crusty codger

They may hate "our kind", but not enough to turn their noses up at good paying jobs we offer.


68 posted on 08/21/2004 8:07:45 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: crusty codger

It looks like the guy took advantage of a client's kind deed, and used that good deed to embarrass the client. The employee had to know what he did would cause embarrassment to the client. Forget the specifics of what happened for a moment. Don't you think that if an employee takes advantage of a client's good will in a way that is certain to cause embarrassment to the client, the employer is justified in firing the employee?


69 posted on 08/21/2004 8:09:03 PM PDT by Freemyland
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To: doodad
They are free to fire... at will

Here's Will


70 posted on 08/21/2004 8:09:10 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: hole_n_one

Your clip from something doesn't apply at all.

btw: What is it from?


71 posted on 08/21/2004 8:13:19 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: crusty codger

Remember when Clinton had a Pregnant woman ARRESTED by the SECRET SERVICE cause she called him a name at the Taste of Chicago??/ That wasn't reported, and it was Clinton HIMSELF that had her arrested,....Bush didn't fire this guy.


72 posted on 08/21/2004 8:14:39 PM PDT by Claire Voyant ((visualize whirled peas))
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To: Freemyland

Perfectly stated.

If you accept a gratuity from a company, your conduct should NEVER bring disgrace or embarassment to your respective company, especially if you are a guest.

Furthermore, if you invite a guest; and they behave in a similar fashion as this individual; you (the guest's sponsor) should expect to be disciplined the same.


73 posted on 08/21/2004 8:16:19 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: crusty codger
I am a Republican Union member who has voted Republican since Nixon and . . .

Tell me, do you think its appropriate to bite the hand that feeds?

74 posted on 08/21/2004 8:16:25 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: hole_n_one

I had that going through my head too!


75 posted on 08/21/2004 8:19:22 PM PDT by bad company ((<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism))
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To: crusty codger; Izzy Dunne

"If I hear the words "free speech", I'm going to hurl..."



hurl.


76 posted on 08/21/2004 8:21:47 PM PDT by bad company ((<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism))
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To: rineaux

I can hear the Democraps now, "the Bush Campaign is personally responsible for this poor man having lost his job!", when, in fact, it is the idiot's own dumb choices that caused him to be fired. Typical, "tell only part of the story", politics on the behalf of Democrats!

I'm with whoever it was that said, "I hope this guy isn't smart enough to breed". Lord knows, he certainly has nothing to contribute to the gene pool!


77 posted on 08/21/2004 8:22:12 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,...for without victory there is no survival. -Churchill)
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To: eleni121; gracex7
crass, crude, and incompetent person,

In the government agency I work for that person will become either management or a union officer.

78 posted on 08/21/2004 8:22:45 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Tourette's syndrome is just a $&#$*!% excuse for poor *%$#** language skills.)
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To: freedumb2003
Your clip from something doesn't apply at all.

It most certainly does.

btw: What is it from?

Seinfeld.

79 posted on 08/21/2004 8:26:19 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: crusty codger

I despise Kerry and all that he stands for.........but as a member of a worldwide marketing team for a Fortune 5 computer corporation, if a client invited me to some sort of pro-Kerry function, I'd bite my tongue and go with it quietly.

That's business.

Otherwise..........the gloves are off.


80 posted on 08/21/2004 8:26:27 PM PDT by RightOnline
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