So then, their story is that someone is trying to "smear" the guy by publishing the guy's own words? Diabolical.

Lord knows *I've* never written anything down that I hope is never made public.

Honest.

No, really.

Never.

Though it is really a rather new thing, what amounts to conversational speech (usenet posts, memos, e-mails) hanging around forever the way it does instead of dissipating into the ambient noise and forever irretreivable.

Wait a minute, what am I missing here? What difference does it make who leaked it and what their motive was, Kevin? Is it not revealing anyway?

Seems like this Green guy isn't very nice and is getting what he deserves.
Don't you like these people that say how fair and down the middle they are, even when the light of their own words are being kicked around
Don't book Albright, cuz she is old news, stupid, washed up, a foreigh policy failure, did I say stupid...oh yeah....but 'jewish shame' WTF. Albright is just bad TV for so many reasons, but this guy's answer shows a personal issue.

"...a public manifestation of what is half-jokingly called Bush Derangement Syndrome, or BDS for short.".......If I WERE deranged I would JUST NOW be learning that ABC, in whole or in part, is full of partisan hacks. Stop the presses! Meanwhile, the Studied Silence toward world events (CancunSPP, BahamasPRC, LikudniksOUT, USvsIraqiParliament, etc, etc) inconveniant to Boy George is NOT deranged? How 'bout a Judy Garland retrospective?

The memos speak for themselves, whatever the source. It is a little out of perspective to characterize it as a vindictive effort to embarrass the man by catching him picking his nose.

I find this whole incident rather sordid. Did Mr Green make the comments? Yes or No? If so, what is ABC going to do about it? Make yet another apology? Last week it was Bush, this week Albright. Next week? The Pope?

Some of the best advise my father ever gave me was
"Son, never say behind a person's back what you won't say to his face". This ABC exec. is getting what he deserves.
Chuck

Never write if you can speak. Never speak if you can wink.

It is certainly revenge to peddle these e-mails about, but it was a case of Class-A Stupid for him to ever - EVER - write or say those things in the workplace. Remember last year there was the story about the two paralegals at an Australian law firm who were fired after they got into an e-mail fight, and it got out? Embarrassed the firm, so they were gone. Remember the young legal secretary/paralegal who used work e-mail to send a nasty vicious e-mail to Michelle Malkin? He was canned for that. This is not new. If you would not put it on letterhead with your full name, do not e-mail it.

He handed a personal enemy a knife and asked for it to be shoved home. He should be heard to complain?

Did John Green say these comments? Are they accurate? That is the question. Has he apologized to Madeleine Albright, or is he waiting for the next insult to leak? Why does he not just issue a "To Whom It May Concern" email
and just leave a fill in the blank to the person
he may or may not have insulted.

Hmmm.

"jew shame"?

That's not worth an apology?

Liberal racism? No surprise. These liberal elites have proven themselves to be the biggest racists on the planet. John Green is no exception.

The liberal talk about their "diversity" is nothing more than BS to hide their own racism (if you're diverse, how can you be racist?).

If the emails were sent by John Green, it doesn't matter who leaked them to the media. The fact is, he is an embarassment. If Green were working for me, he would be out the door as soon as I found out he had sent an email as racist as that.

What's funnier about this idiot's email is that in the debate he had the problem with, John Kerry used the phrase "mixed message" more than twice as much as did Bush. I think Bush used it 2 or 3 times. And apparently, Bush's use of it was correct, whereas John Kerry's usages were more nonsensical. I think I found that on Captain's Quarters or an Instapundit link. Sorry I can't remember where I saw it.

Am I missing something? Does not an excutive producer run the show he works on? Is he not supposed to lead by example? If this is the kind of leadership John Green exhibits, then the rest of the staff emails must be lulus?

Kevin do you have any more? Would love to see them.

Howard Cosell, where are you?

I am sick and tired of all the BS. If Green in fact uttered these words he should stand up and take his punishment like a man. If the former employee did not entrap Mr. Green then his words should stand, period.

First, it was Bush makes me puke.

Then, Albright has Jew shame.

Are we to wait for a third strike?

Send Green to the showers and then bench him, for good.

I hear that John Green has taken a 30 day suspension from ABC.

I wonder what he will do with his spare time?

Probably track down the leaker.

That might be another story, or maybe an ABC TV series this fall.

Screw this. If you've never said anything to a colleague or friend you wouldn't want leaked to the entire world, then you're freakish beyond description. He should stand up and say 'Yeah, I said it. But not to you.' And at least he didn't threaten to rub a loufa all over Madeline's body.