His entire mediocre fighting career has been based off of his personality, and certainly not any kind of skills he’s shown in the ring. So in that sense, it’s completely valid to fire a fighter based on his public image when that was the only reason you had him on board in the first place.

I wish there was a way to only have freedom of intelligent speech – “You’re legally too stupid to talk!” Ah, dreams…

Straight-up criminal dawg.

And these comments coming right after his verbal diarrhea about assassinating Obama last month and airing his wishes to go on a killing spree the month before. Such a classy chap.

don’t worry about the whole freedom of speech thing. Were I to go on this site and say something along the lines of what War Machine said (especially wishing that someone would kill the president as he did) my company would fire me too. Companies have the freedom to fire people for failing to conduct themselves in a manner that may bring significant negative attention to the company. He wasn’t fired because he doesn’t like President Obama…he was fired because he expressed a desire for him to be killed on a very visible way.

This kid won’t even be able to land a KOTC show soon enough.

That dude is always a sad panda.

You can earn over a quarter of a million dollars by losing in the first round???

Damn! that is good money!

Thing is, it’s not just about what you say (which FoS covers), but also about how and when. I mean, I’m an anarchist and an activist, and I write for radical political magazines. I also work for the government. I don’t insert anti-state diatribes into my work reports, and everyone goes home happy. It comes down to having the personal pride and good sense to know when and how to raise your opinions in an intelligent and respectful manner. War Machine (I still hate calling him that because it’s what he wants, but at the same time, it’s funny) knows nothing about intelligence or respect. If he did, he’d still have a job. Maybe two.

There’s freedom of speech, and then there’s inciting violence against someone, which “War Machine” did, and that’s not acceptable. Don’t get me wrong, I think people should be allowed to say whatever they want, but there are laws against inciting violence. Imagine if instead of saying someone should smoke Obama, he had said that about an ethnic group.