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NPR Host Fired After Serving as Occupy DC Spokeswoman

Oct. 20, 2011 1:49pm Madeleine Morgenstern

NPR-affiliated music host Lisa Simeone was fired for serving as a spokeswoman for the Occupy DC movement. (Media credit: NPR)

An NPR opera host has been fired after she admitted to serving as a spokeswoman for the ongoing Occupy D.C. movement.

Lisa Simeone said Thursday she was fired over the phone while NPR’s code of ethics was read to her. Earlier this week, Roll Call reported she was affiliated with October 2011, an Occupy-related group currently holing up in D.C.’s Freedom Plaza.

“Well, I work in radio still, but this is totally different,” Simeone told Roll Call on Tuesday. “I’m a freelancer.”

Simeone was the host of “Soundprint” and “World of Opera.” Neither program was produced by NPR, but “World of Opera” was distributed by the station and “Soundprint” aired on local affiliates.

“I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen — the right to free speech, the right to peaceable assembly — on my own time in my own life,” Simeone told the Baltimore Sun on Wednesday before she was fired.

Simeone maintained she is not a news reporter and therefore her involvement with the movement is not a conflict of interest.

“I don’t cover news. In none of the shows that I do, do I cover the news,” she said. “What is NPR afraid I’ll do? Insert a seditious comment into a synopsis of `Madame Butterfly?’”

Simeone said she has been serving with about 50 people on a steering committee for the occupation protest on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. She said it is not connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York, but they share similar philosophies.

On the October 2011 website, a pledge from someone signed Lisa Simeone said it’s time for the U.S.’s “worldwide torture regime to end”:

It’s long past time for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to end, for U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen to end, for our worldwide torture regime to end, for Guantanamo to be closed, for political, military, and corporate criminals to be held accountable. We’re spending billions of dollars on destruction abroad and abrogation of rights at home — the only growing sector of the economy is the abusive National Security State. Meanwhile, millions of people are out of work, they’ve been thrown out of their homes, they can’t afford health care, they’re routinely vilified in national discourse, and the so-called news media is busy mouthing the majoritarian line. These things are all connected. As Hannah Arendt put it, ‘Empire abroad entails tyranny at home.’ I will be in Washington on October 6th to demand that my government stop abusing its own and other people and start answering to its citizens.

— Lisa Simeone

NPR issued a statement on its website Wednesday saying it had learned Simeon was participating in an “Occupy D.C.” group but that she is not an NPR employee.

“We’re in conversations with [local affiliate] WDAV about how they intend to handle this,” the statement read. “We of course take this issue very seriously.”

NPR’s ethics code regarding political activities for its employees states: “NPR journalists may not participate in marches and rallies involving causes or issues that NPR covers, nor should they sign petitions or otherwise lend their name to such causes, or contribute money to them.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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tomloy
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:23pm
The moral of this story is to not to be the spokeman for a controversial group if you’re in broadcasting.

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- turkey13
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:43pm
  Well she can march full time now like Juan Williams works fulll time for Fox News. Maybe she’ll write a book also. Mr. Williams is a lot more wealther than he was.
  
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- Anamah
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:53pm
  Tomloy …did you said “a controversial group” ??? What do you find controversial about this planned anti capitalist protest well organized and funded by Communist revolutionaries, Soros, Unions, Adbusters.org? Do you find something controversial on destroying our country values, our system and soul???…Instead I have no doubt about their bad intentions. To me they are not controversial, they are a total disgrace.
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:22pm
  we all knew the usual suspects would be involved.
  
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- Swalker
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:42pm
  I don’t know about you but for me it is wrong. Next they will want to fire them because they voted the wrong way. She is not a news person so what does this have to do with her job, nothing.
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:42pm
  “I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen — the right to free speech, the right to peaceable assembly — on my own time in my own life,”
  
  I don’t find it surprising that she is puzzled.
  NPR is not objecting to her exercising her rights.
  NPR is objecting to her bastardizing her objectivity. Supposedly.
  
  NPR futilely grasping at credibility.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:56pm
  Guess she now knows how conservatives feel, doesn’t she?
  
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- The10thAmendment
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:08pm
  This is called, liberals and progressives are simply not very intelligent. Read your contract……………….stooooopid.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:10pm
  Actually, for a lib she ain’t that ugly… are we sure she is a radical lib?
  
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- The10thAmendment
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:25pm
  @ cessna152
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:10pm
  
  Actually, for a lib she ain’t that ugly… are we sure she is a radical lib?
  —————————————————————————————————————————————-
  Chisel off the warpaint. At best she’s a right wing progressive, at worst a full blown odumboite communist/fascist. Likely she’s right in the middle of the former and the later, which makes her at least 4 steps left of center right between right wing progressives, and left wing socialists of the communist party (aka left wing progressives).
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:31pm
  I’m surprised NPR didn’t give her a raise.
  
  OMG
  
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- db321
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:33pm
  They who think they to be so wise – becomes fools. Now lets get to firing some of the Socialist Marxist at the WH.
  
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- theaveng
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:34pm
  NPR *had* to do this, because they fired Juan Someobdy last year after he appeared on FOX.
  They had to show consistency, or else by accused of double standards.
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:44pm
  No, the moral to this story is that NPR is America’s answer to Soviet-era Pravda… but doesn’t like to be outed as such.
  
  You see, it’s hard to maintain the pretense of journalistic integrity and balance when your people are outing you as Communist.
  
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- rockstone
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:58pm
  Should she probably give old Hank a call. I’m sure they’ll both get along great.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:01pm
  Even the uber-left NPR doesn’t want to be affiliated with the unwashed, ritalin-doped, staple-faced, squad-car-defacating, street urchin zombies of the OWS.
  
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- Ruler4You
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:27pm
  I don’t think she does finds it ‘puzzling’, at all. Nor do any of the rest of us. Frankly, she had sold out her journalistic principles (if she ever had any) a long time ago. Only when she decided to “come out”, as seems to be virulently prevalent in “popular contemporary journalism” these days, as a communist or a supporter of some Marxist derivative as though that form of idealism would be an acceptable alternative to the idealism of journalistic integrity and personal honor. What are people thinkin’? Truth is NOT relative. and therefore, nor is honor.
  
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- John the Doe
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 6:41pm
  She was acting stupid and another stupid saw her and reported her to the NPR stupids and now shes really stupid.
  
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- C. Schwehr
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:39pm
  I see where she made her mistake. She mentioned GOVERNMENT abuse which is a distinct no-no since this is supposed to be a movement which SUPPORTS our dear leader. She was sacked just as Juan Williams was, without personal contact from NPR, without any logical reason, and without pity.
  Is NPR just another Gestapo propaganda organ or what?????
  
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- proantisocialist
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:28pm
  how about free speech comes with personel responsability?
  
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- Hobbs57
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:41pm
  Nope, you all missed the mark. NPR has to survive on donations, I am thinking they get quite a sizable amount from Wall Street. You think ?? Can’t have your people protesting the very people who fund your services…lol
  
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- Seasoldier
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 11:50pm
  NPR, that is National Public Radio, a taxpayer subsidized entity. As long as NPR gets any of its money from the government, she should not be employed by the taxpayers at the same time that she is conspiring to subvert the U. S. government through the “Occupy….” Socialist Culture of Death Elitist movement. That ruling should apply whether she is an actual Communist/Socialist, a dupe, a fellow traveler, a willing accomplice or a useful idiot. Here’s one time when NPR has done the right thing. Semper Fi
  
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- Dmagi15
  Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:25am
  …Unless you work for Fox “News”. There, you can be a Tea Partier, raise money for the Tea Party, contribute to the Tea Party, march with the Tea Party, speak at Tea Party events with no problem.
  
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Jim in Houston
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:22pm
If it was fair to Juan Williams it is fair to this jackass.

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- TXMamaGrizzley
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:37pm
  Agree
  
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- txrailroader
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:55pm
  NPR is trying to cover Obama a$$, that has to do any thing with all the flea baggers in N.Y.or D.C. or any where else it’s going on.Can’t have the Perz have a bad rap on this now do we?
  
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- John the Doe
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 6:42pm
  Jauny is black.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 11:02pm
  Goes to show, Liberals have no problem eating their own.
  
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SiToNiTsOrOs1
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:21pm
I do not care for NPR. The station is still a liberal mouthpiece. Anyone supporting the “legitimacy” of the OWS “movement” should be let go if they work for any company which is truely American. The OWS movement is an orchestrated attempt to disrupt the American way of life. Trying to bring down capitalism while tweeting complaints about how “bad” America is over your IPAD is kind-of hypocritical, don’t you think. The very people and companies (and yes, that “evil” monitary system) who made the American way of life are the same ones OWS wants to abolish. Might I ask: What system is to replace capitolsim? If you think American living is so bad, send me your name, address and account information and I will buy you a one way ticket to Egypt, Jordan, Iran, or any other country you occupiers so rever. For all those who know the truth, this movement can’t gather momentum unless it is being financialy supported by the real evil doers (AKA George Soros, SEIU, etc.). The more the truth gets out there, the less powerful these malcontents will get.

SITONIT Van Jone, George Soros and SEIU!!!!!!

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Schlol
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:21pm
What if… October 4, 2015… NEWS BRAKE… Capitalism Has Been Overthrown. Occupy Wall Street occupiers have, after 4 years of continual possession around the world, finally won their occupation. The President announced today, just after his breakfast, that capitalism is outlawed in the United States and will be replaced with a mild form of dictatorship, seasoned with just a little socialism. The President, now called The Peep Rapper, will soon be sending out his friends to begin acquiring assets to fund the new government. As The Peep Rapper has said, “I know the people will want to support my call to give up your wealth so I can share with all my people who have no wealth, even though by giving up wealth will make you poor and will make you eligible to receive wealth, will don’t expect anything cause that wouldn’t be Fair to people who never had any wealth”. He also said that the rounding up of evil Rich people will continue, as he said yesterday during a tea party firing squad, “there were a lot more of them Rich guys than we thought, ha… we got 10 gold teeth out of one of them old geezers.” He also added, “since Congress and the Supreme Court will no longer be needed, anyone who is willing to die for the PR will be interviewed for positions in the security force, army, administration, kitchen staff, and maid service. “I really need someone I can trust to do my windows… ya know, government jobs are very important to the success of my new governm
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:39pm
  Stop the Presses = News Brake ???
  
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- C. Schwehr
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:43pm
  Would not happen…..civil war would break out long before such things were forced upon us.
  
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Mahakala
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:18pm
Cry me a river lady. Go tell it to Juan Williams

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commonsenseguy
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:16pm
poor lisa, i am a conservative and i will give you a job if you really want one, you can start tomorrow morning at 5:30,the chickens,hogs and cows need to be feed, then you can clean all those pens, then when you get that done it will be lunch time and you can have a break,at that time you can do and say whatever you want to, as long as it is to the chickens,cow and hogs, then after lunch, the grass needs mowing, the cloths need to washed and hung out to dry,the dishes need to washed and the floors need to sweep, by then it will be around 3;30pm, then it will be time to start supper,which is at 5:00,then after supper it is time to feed again, then tomorrow starts a new day,and the fun starts all over again, so come on and get some of this life.

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- let us prey
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:27pm
  Can she bring the former NPR CEO/communist Vivian Schiller to learn how to cultivate the beets?
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:29pm
  @let us prey,we will need all the useful idiots we can get,after all these years of hard country work,i think it is time to let the soft liberals have a tats of the fun,and besides some one will have to plant and pick the beets and sweet taters.
  
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- let us prey
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:35pm
  common
  There will be plenty of useful idiots to do the work.
  
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CS_GUY
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:15pm
Just giving her an opportunity to persue her “real” passion. Hanging out with radically obtuse underachievers…….
And, of course the first thing she cries is her “freedoms” are being infringed upon. Sounds like her freedom has just been granted…..
Where do these persons get the idea anyone living a normal life gives a rats ass what they think?
Talk about egotistical ingrates…………..

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Lumbar Spine
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:12pm
It demonstrates that NPR has stricdt journalistic ethics. Would FOX News do the same?

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- SWING HARD
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:19pm
  NPR strict? Now that’s funny.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:27pm
  Strict
  
  S T R I C D T Stricdt
  
  BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT Spelling Bee is over . Sit Down
  
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- BetterDays
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:28pm
  No, it demonstrates that NPR is aware it’s under the microscope, a firing of convience to bolster NPR’s appearances before the scutinany of the public eye.
  Fox ( Faux ) has as much integrity as any of the other networks, they just push the right side of the globalist governance propaganda. In simpletons terms so you can grasp the gist of what I said, NO televised news program has integrity, no, not one.
  I do so admire your constant use of ” gnostic ” argumentation, holding others to a standard you in now way posses yourself. Brilliant, but telling. Was this article about FOX news, funny I must have missed that piece of journalistic ineptitude somehow.
  But please run off to HuffingtonBoast now to recoup your self esteem through the popularity contest so fabulously presented by the massed incapables posting as socialist psychopaths, you know your kind of people. What? It’s no fun being the target of your own vitriol, hmm, go figure?
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:42pm
  Poor Lumbar Spine…NPR gets it, but you don’t.
  NPR is fighting to retain Federal money. The GOP house already has NPR targeted for defunding citing the partisan position of the network. With a coming GOP Senate and President….NPR is trying to position itself for a better negotiating angle. It’s also well aware the the smelly OWS “Fecesstock” protests will eventually turn violent..they have no other direction to go. One of NPR’s hosts cannot be associated to something like that or that Federal Funding will disappear.
  
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- Papa
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:45pm
  Not even close. This is just a smokescreen to cover up the pervasive and obvious leftist bias of NPR. Will it change anything? No.
  
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- drago
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:02pm
  lumbar spine aka encinom, lay off the crack pipe kid, seriously…….
  
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- CS_GUY
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:25pm
  Yes, and they spell well also…………
  
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- Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:48pm
  Exactly. It’s always about the money. Whenever anyone says, “It’s not about the money.” It’s always about the money.
  
  And these are not NPR’s true colors. NPR’s true colors flew high and proud when James O’Keefe and Project Veritas https://www.theprojectveritas.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=9 got them on hidden video. That prolly got the (remaining) leadership within PBS and NPR just a tad paranoid about where a hidden pinhole camera and microphone might be hidden next.
  
  “Fecesstock” That legitimately made me LOL, and I’m embarrassed about that for two reasons. 1) I actually understood it. 2) It’s so literally accurate.
  
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- Lumbar Spine
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:45pm
  typo…strict… poor proofreading
  
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Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:12pm
Artsy-Fartsy Liberals will never be able to comprehend the workings of the real world. To them, the federal government is merely their biggest patron. When Liberal economic fantasy starts to crack and raw economic reality starts to shine through, and their budgets get cut because the government can’t afford them anymore, they flounder in any attempts to manage their own affairs in a truly free market.

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:21pm
  @lphp,artsy,fartsy,haven’t heard that inn years, thanks for the laugh, you never seem to amaze at some of your post,very funny and straight forward, you really must be from texas to use such words, at least i think you are,if not welcome you will fit in just fine.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:33pm
  Or they join the Radical others, Like in Greece , Right Now.
  
  But the citizens of Greece are probably not armed ,, like they are here
  
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- Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:38pm
  Indiana, not Texas. My understanding of Texas law with regard to “my kind” does not bode well for my moving down that way any time soon.
  
  And don’t get me wrong. I’m all for opera and the symphony and museums and plays… I just don’t want to send *MY* money to support them unless *I* am actually walking through the door to experience (read: consume) them. Ditto anyone else’s money who does not or does not want to consume or support such “culture”.
  
  There’s just as much culture at a NASCAR race, rodeo, monster truck rally, or major sporting event. It is just a different shape, color, and texture of culture, but it is no less a form of American mass culture. As much as Leftists do not want tax payer money to go to support automotive races and NFL games, I don’t want to see tax payer dollars go to support the arts and humanities. If the art and stage productions are good enough to receive public support, they are good enough to receive enough private support to not require public support. Just like any other cultural event.
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:48pm
  @lphp, well an time you you want, you are welcome to come on down,
  
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- ChiefMac
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:04pm
  Hear, hear.
  
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- Obama_Sham
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:04pm
  “Indiana, not Texas.”
  
  Nice to see another Hoosier here…
  
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:11pm
  LESBIAN PACKING HOLLOW POINTS,
  Amen sistah! AFREAKINGmen!
  You hit the truth right between the eyes!
  
  I only hope that her firing gives her a teensy tiny glimpse into the real world.
  In her ARTSY FARTSY world it’s all sunshine,lollipops, and KUMBIYAH.
  
  I know too many amputees who have fought for her right to be happy dappy, clueless, and actually dangerous to the survival of this country.
  
  May she please wake up. Evil exists.
  
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BDan6248
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:11pm
When are people going to understand again that “Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Consequences” aren’t the same thing?…

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- Forward
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:54pm
  Exactly right. You can say anything you want. The government cannot tell you what to think. Similarly it cannot tell those who hear you what to think about what you said. If they choose to shun you because you said something that is offensive to you that is their right.
  
  It is certainly a stretch for NPR to sack an opera commentator for having a political opinion but quite frankly this way they can say that they are “unbiased” in their firings while keeping all their liberal political hacks in place. Sorry Lisa, that is what a human sacrifice is all about. Ask the pagans at your “occupation event”.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:53pm
  Even Click and Klak only tell you how to fix left hand drive vehicles. Hope they don’t make a mistake.
  
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BobM
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:10pm
HEY! You lay down with “Flea Baggers” you get…..well…..FLEAS!!!!!

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- DanWesson455
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:17pm
  And now the OTHER shoe HAS dropped. There you go Juan. To bad, although I never watched her not so bad looking to a 59 year old dim sighted retiree.
  
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- lodgerat
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:29pm
  I think they are starting to get the idea…It’s about time.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:07pm
Good, now lets remove Jan Schakowsky.

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- Realist4U
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:51pm
  You must be the Great Kreskin. Ya read my mind.
  
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commonsenseguy
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:06pm
npr said she does not work for them,, then how can they fire her, i smell some ruin fish from somewhere

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- Dinkiecb
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:43pm
  yeah i kinda wondered about that…if she didn’t work for em…how do ya have them fire her? I wonder if .. NPR fired me (and no i don’t work for em either) if I could sit on my rear end and collect unemployment? Since they’d fire me…and did her… an all … maybe NPR can fire us all…mmmm
  
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- RichNGadsden
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:42pm
  To simplify, I’m sure there was a contract with her employer as to “who” will be on the air. And, there was the mention of the code of ethics that she reportedly violated. Maybe at her next on air job she will read and understand their code or ethics or SOP.
  
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Sy Kosys
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:06pm
And what about the lady from the LA Unified School District at OWS?
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/18/breaking-la-unified-school-district-fires-teacher-who-made-anti-semitic-remarks-at-occupy-demonstration/

HOLY SMOKES! You mean there’s some ACTUAL consistency?!?!

Surely, this is a sign of the Apocalypse…..

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mrsmileyface
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:02pm
NPR is still a liberal mouthpiece no matter how they tried to diguise it this time. Its time for NPR to go the way of the Do-do.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:07pm
  Nice Pun
  
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- Locked
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:11pm
  “What is NPR afraid I’ll do? Insert a seditious comment into a synopsis of `Madame Butterfly?’”
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:14pm
  Ms. Simeone seems to be blissfully unaware that NPR is literally fighting to keep federal money because of exhibitions of leftist favor like Ms Simeone’s. NPR didn’t need the bad publicity..so she got fired. I dare say NPR has made an excellent call knowing that the OWS “Fecesstock” protests will turn uglier very soon. Having one of their own presenters as a spokesperson won’t get them sympathy from a GOP controlled house, GOP controlled Senate and GOP President after the 2012 election.
  
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THX-1138
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:01pm
“I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen.”

ROFLMAO!

Irony may be my favorite thing in the world…

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:06pm
  Yeah, just ask Juan Williams.
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:07pm
  it is a bitsh sometimes.
  
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eramthgin
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:58pm
If you work for NPR you take public money you dont take sides. How hard is that to understand.

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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:01pm
  Mr. Williams was fired also. Take it like a woman!
  
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grudgywoof
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:58pm
NPR is running scared because they know if the right gets control they will be over with.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:07pm
  Yep, nail on the head.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:08pm
  Let’s hope, along with the EPA, Dept. of Ed., etc.
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:27pm
  Surely they did this because of their high journalistic standard and not because they are afraid for their funding. He said with tongue in cheek.
  
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jason1974
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:57pm
who cares!!

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Cherynn
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:54pm
Ask Juan Williams about NPR’s free speach policy.

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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:56pm
  First thing I though of when I read this article.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:02pm
  I find it funny that Hank Jr had to quit before he was going to be fired, for his Hitler, Barry statement.
  
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qzak491
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:54pm
You mean NPR finally got something RIGHT, amazing.

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Locked
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:53pm
Shame on NPR. More examples of the freedom of speech being limited. I am curious what the exact part of the code of ethics she violated consisted of.

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- TalonTed
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:04pm
  The issue of free speech becomes moot when you break the rule of the organization you work for. They pay, you play. Otherwise you need to move on.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:10pm
  Hence why I’m wondering what she violated. While OWS is undoubtedly left-wing, it doesn’t necessarily have to be pro-Democratic; many of the issues the protesters rail against were done under Obama’s guidance, like the bank bail-outs. So I want to know specifically what part of the code of ethics she violated.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:10pm
  Was she jailed? No? She still has freedom of speech.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:27pm
  Gonzo, you are presumably fine with the teacher who ranted about gays on her facebook getting fired as well, yes?
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/embattled-nj-teachers-husband-defends-her-facebook-comments-on-gays/
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:38pm
  Locked, I wish the teacher still had her job but, she has a right to free speech, not a right to employment. I hope she finds a job at a private school that approves of her positions.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:45pm
  Then we see things differently, I suppose; you are right about right-to-work in states that have such legislation.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:03pm
  She had to sign it before she could read it.
  
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ILinch4U
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:53pm
Sorry Simeon, you should have know better. They fired Juan Williams for less. It is your right to speak and protest..it is NPR’s right to fire you…..period.

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- Alucard
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:04pm
  I was going to say the exact same thing. How can she be suprised at all?
  
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Gonzo
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:53pm
Nice head fake NPR but, we still know who you really are.

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:09pm
  and now she has faked her but right out of a cushy job, well she could go to ows and ask them to bail her out, lets she how well that goes over.
  
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- Meyvn
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:15pm
  Yeah. I was trained to watch the navel.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:40pm
  Me too Meyvn, funny.
  
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LinkedIn G
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:52pm
Too liberal for NPR … I’ll show you too liberal for NPR … ha ha ha ha ha

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- CatB
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:56pm
  My first thought also … OWS .. is WAY OUT TO THE LEFT! Marxist .. I guess NPR doesn’t want to go THAT far left!
  
  TEA!
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:10pm
  @catb,npr is for left, they would have to turn right a million times before they could even get close to center.
  
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