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THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, NEWSCASTERS WOULD BE FIRED FOR DARING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH: ?

By Glenn Reynolds

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, NEWSCASTERS WOULD BE FIRED FOR DARING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH: And they were right!

Amid the ongoing BP oil spill in July, McKelway covered a Capitol Hill demonstration by environmental groups protesting the influence of oil-industry contributions to members of Congress.

In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely attended event attracted protesters “largely representing far-left environmental groups.” He went on to say the protest “may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions from BP.”

Now he’s been canned.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).