No Tears for Roger Friedman

Sorry that I can’t cry over Roger Friedman’s firing as a columnist from FOXNews.com.

It’s not just that he ignored the age-old advice–don’t blank where you live/eat/work. And it’s not just that as an entertainment industry writer, he was an uber-liberal who rarely wrote anything of interest and mostly gushed over the vapid celebs he covered.

It’s that left-wing politics dominated his absurd praise of left-wing propaganda on the silver screen and his apologism for extremist Muslims in showbiz.

It’s that he sometimes fancied himself a movie critic and lent the FOX News name to extreme fawning over movies like Michael Moore’s pro-socialized medicine flick, “Sicko,” and Angelina Jolie’s “A Mighty Heart,” which was “Mighty” only in its pandering to Islam and pretending some other force cut up Daniel Pearl like so many chicken parts at the market. Then, other liberal celebs and gals on “The View” would say, “Well, even FOX News like it.”

And it’s that Friedman took it upon himself to question the U.S. government’s decision to turn away Yusuf Islam a/k/a Cat Stevens because of his open hatred of Jews (including, presumably, Roger Friedman), support of HAMAS, his recent past as a HAMAS money-mule, and his defense of the Salman Rushdie death fatwah. Friedman cheered on the absurd reversal of that wise decision to deny Stevens entry into the U.S.

Does that sound like “Fair & Balanced” to you . . . or liberal and what you’d expect on ABC and MSNBC?

It was extremely stupid to brag on your own company’s website that you are stealing from your company and enjoying the crime. But Roger Friedman’s dismissal from FOXNEWS.com was loooooong overdue.