Not sure if any of you frequented the ESPN website or the PAGE 2 portion but TMQ aka Tuesday Morning Quarterback was in my opinon one of the best weekly articles online. Well ESPN canned him today over comments he made on an entirely different subject matter.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110004194 Link there basically explains it all...but for those to lazy to go there...
Easterbrook stepped in it by writing a scathing review of the movie Kill Bill (at The New Republic) that criticized Disney head honcho Michael Eisner and inadvertently came off as racially prejudiced. A quick clarification and abject apology wasn't enough, and now Easterbrook joins Limbaugh in the ESPN dumpster. (Yes, he was fired from a job at ESPN for something he wrote elsewhere.) In a particularly Stalinst flourish, ESPN has removed all record of past TMQ columns from its site. Try to search there for "Easterbrook" or "TMQ" and see what happens. Thank goodness we here at TR don't have to answer to higher-ups at some massive media conglomerate.
Give props to The Tech Report for coming up with that little synopsis of the whole ordeal.