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| Graphic Designer Fired After Heckling Bush |
| 2004-08-21 |
| Slightly EFL - MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company. The graphic designer said he was told he'd embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event. "I was told that my actions reflected badly on the company and that a client was upset," Glen Hiller of Berkeley Springs said. Cause - meet Effect Hiller was escorted from Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting comments about the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction there. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with its chant: "Four more years." Lost your job and nobody heard you - loser Arriving at his job with Octavo Designs in Frederick, Md., the next morning, Hiller said he was "shocked" to learn he was fired. A woman at the company who declined to give her name confirmed Hiller was axed because of his conduct at the rally. I'm "shocked" too "They see my actions as negative," Hiller said, adding he'd do the same thing again. "There is no venue for the regular guy to ask a question. We don't have access to people in power. And those events are completely scripted and controlled." |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Dimwit, make nice to the guy who puts food on your table. Go with the Kerry campaign. I understand they would NEVER NEVER try to censor a book or a political ad as long as it's pro sKerry. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-08-21 10:00:44 PM |
| #2 Bad choices are always someone else's fault when you're so righteously right. You'd do it again, huh? What a dipshit. No one is coming to save you, sonny. F**kin' Duh. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-21 9:57:57 PM |
| #1 What is it with this moron? The guy's basically entertaining clients - the point of which is to bond with him, not offend him. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-21 9:46:19 PM |