No Disrespect Intended

No disrespect intended to our Generals, our President, or Messrs. Rumsfeld and now Gates, but upon seeing this ... if she can't get a field commission, qualify for Sec Def or Prez ... couldn't they at least have found a spot for her on the Baker Commission?

Somehow I sense Iraq might be better off.

'They've chosen war and they will get exactly that'...

Even though Judith Regan made a book publishing mistake of epic proportions when she commissioned O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It," few in the book industry thought she would lose her job over the incident. For all the volatility of her personality and penchant for attracting controversy, her commercial instincts were simply too valuable for HarperCollins to lose.

That reasoning turned out to be wrong, and there is now more controversy to come. HarperCollins Worldwide, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., abruptly fired Ms. Regan in a terse announcement Friday night, shortly before the News Corp. holiday party. The publisher gave no reason.

But Ms. Regan is fighting back, hiring well-known Hollywood litigator Bert Fields. "They've chosen war and they will get exactly that," said Mr. Fields in an interview. "She won't take this lying down."

Comments

[Mike]

"She won't take this lying down."

The she'll just have to take it bent over.....sorry I had to say that :-)

[madmatt]

Couldn't be her anti-semitism?

[liberalpercy]

Funny!

One loud-mouthed, idiotic, anti-semitic, wingnut pundit is going to "fix" Iraq? That means that you either completely disrespect the troops and the sacrifices they are making, or you and Ms. Regan have a very distorted opinion of what happens to you when you make a really stupid, costly, public, employer-embarrassing mistake.

Considering the usual lack of Right-Wingers' grasp of reality when it comes to Iraq, I would guess the first. After all - you probably believe in capitalism, and since Judith Regan proved she could easily be replaced by some non-English speaking 25-cents-a-day Vietnamese worker and save her company money, the Free Market dictates she be fired. Just like millions of other 'globalized' US workers.

Amazing how that works, isn't it. Now, if we can just get rid of the rest of the self-important right-wingnuttery class, the world would be better off.

[K]

It probably wasn't what she did but how she reacted when she was overruled. And we don't know that. She may simply have sassed the boss too much.

Or she may have welcomed being fired. Today extorting millions from your former boss to go away is an art form. It certainlly will make her better known and she will probably soom have a better position and a lot of sympathy whether deserved or not.

Well, the war will be free. And perhaps as revealing as the recent episode of 'Brittany and Paris Sans Scanties.'