You knew it was coming. ABC would have to suspend Green over the "bad" email to please someone. Heaven forbid if we have any sort of privacy in anything we do.
ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.
John Green, whose unpaid suspension will last one month, apologized to the White House in a call to communications director Nicolle Wallace, while two ABC executives called the former secretary of state to apologize.
"No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate."
Well, I guess he was also suspended for a flap he made about Madeleine Albright in a second email that surfaced the other day.
The second leaked e-mail surfaced Thursday on the New York Post's gossipy Page Six. In that note, Green wrote that Albright should not be booked on the show because "Albright has Jew shame."
Albright, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, acknowledged her Jewish heritage in 1997 after it was discovered by Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs in the course of researching a book.
Green wrote in that note that "she hates us anyway because she says we promised her five minutes and only gave her two...I do not like her." An ABC insider said Green was reacting to a heated dispute between Albright and a network producer.
You know..."Jew shame" or not, "Bush makes me sick" or not...what is said in an email to another person is supposed to be private. As long as you aren't planning a person's death. Or so I thought.
Then again, these days, nothing stays private for long thanks to the internet.
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