Tuesday, November 22, 2016
TV reporter fired after writing Facebook post praising Donald Trump
A TEXAS television reporter is out of a job after she criticised President Obama and praised President-elect Donald Trump on her personal Facebook page — claiming the country went “downhill” under the outgoing commander-in-chief.
Scarlett Fakhar said she was recently canned from her local news gig at Fox in Houston for posting last week that she was “happy and relieved” over Trump’s unexpected White House win.
Fakhar had said in the post, which has since been deleted, that Obama made the “entire county hate one another” and claimed God “had a hand” in the election. She also said she could “barely sleep from how happy and relieved she was” after Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
“Fox 26 Houston fired me today for expressing my conservative views on my private Facebook page,” Fakhar posted Thursday. “That is all I will say for you. But I want you to know how much your support has gotten me through this. God bless you all.”
A spokesman for KRIV confirmed to The Post that Fakhar, 25, was no longer with the station, but declined further comment.
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Note: Fakhar is a Pakistani name. Care in pronouncing it would be advisable, I imagine
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Kind of like with BOB ZELNICK wrote a book all about the real AL GORE and was canned just typical of the leftists news media no free speech under communism/socialism
Shouldn't that come under some kind of unfair dismissal law? I thought there was still a right to free speech. Maybe not in the world of Leftards, who'd demonise anyone if the shoe was on the other foot.
Unfortunately free speech only says that the government cannot punish people for what the say or write; non-government entities can do what they choose.
Go unfair dismissal but I have no doubt there was a clause in her contract about social media comments. Sue their asses off.
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