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Flipping off the President, now that's a fireable offense
Posted on November 1, 2006 4:25 PM
George W. Bush was having a good time on the way to a Washington state fundraiser. He was waving to students and drivers on several school buses as his limo drove past.
The good times ended when a bus driver waved back, but she didn't use all five fingers...
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert said the obscene gesture occurred as he was traveling in the president's limo in June on the way to a fundraiser in Medina.The unnamed bus driver accepted her punishment in that context without complaint. Ha ha, I keed, I keed, her union has filed a grievance against the school district that fired her, and called it wrongful termination.
At a freeway ramp the limo passed several Issaquah school buses. The students waved to the president and Bush waved back. Bush was having a good time until he saw the driver, Reichert said. Bush turned to Reichert and said the driver had flipped him off.
Reichert later called the school district and the driver was fired in September. A spokeswoman, Sara Niegowski, said the gesture was "not at all appropriate modeling for students on the bus."
Seriously, isn't an upraised defiant middle finger protected as free speech? What do you mean "not in the workplace?" Oh.
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