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I HAD THIS FRIEND HIS NAME WAS MARC WITH A C

Fox News Analyst Found Out He Was Fired Via Google Alert

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Behold the bathetic tragedy of (former!) Fox News liberal-ish analyst Marc Lamont Hill, who found out that he had been fired via Google Alert. How nightmarish! So last week at some Fox shareholders meeting, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why this Marc Lamont Hill loves nothing more than when cops are killed. Puzzled, Murdoch knew not! “Oh… ha. Marc. Yeah he’s… fired. Marc is fired,” “said” Murdoch. Thing is: Marc had not been fired—in the sense that no one had approached Marc and told him he no longer had a job—but the Internet printed the story anyway! MORE »