From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs,

your ears' greatest hour of politics and culture.

Today on the program, we discuss whether demanding that opponents be fired is good strategy.

Hear a dispatch from Michigan about the Abdul for governor campaign

and each share our most conservative opinions.

Our panel today, current affairs amusements editor, Light of Gold.

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Current Affairs Finance editor, Sparky Abraham.

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Current Affairs legal editor, Oran Nimney. Hi, everyone. And

current affairs contributing editor, Brianna, Joy, Gray. I'm your host, Pete Davis. We begin with

segment one, practical tactical. In the recurring segment, practical tactical, we discuss

different tactics and strategies being used in the political

fights of the late 2010s and whether we think they are good, useful, moral, and effective.

This week, we discussed the tactic of getting the other guy fired. Calling the other sides

manager and demanding a pink slip is in vogue these days on both sides of the political divide.

Progressive activists have gotten the following people fired.

Mozilla CEO, Brendan Ike for donating to Prop 8, Google engineer James DeMore for making a sexist PowerPoint,

CVS managers, Charlottesville alt-right marchers, and Roseanne for being racist, and more.

Conservative activists have gotten Bill Maher fired for being insensitive after 9-11,

the Dixie Chick sort of fired for being right about the war in Iraq, USDA official Shirley

Sherrod fired for being part of an unfairly edited video, and forced a New Yorker fact-checker to

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