Silencing dissent!-----Aspen newspaper dumps ONLY conservative voice!-----And the Beaton goes on | Power Line

And the Beaton goes on | Power Line
"The Aspen Times deposited the metaphorical lump of coal in conservative columnist Glenn Beaton’s Christmas stocking this year. 
After a seven-year run as the paper’s one and only conservative columnist as well as its most widely read columnist, period, the editors terminated him.

The reason given for Glenn’s abrupt firing was that his “values” conflict with those of the newspaper. 
Glenn is a Trump supporter and has been critical of the Democratic candidates for president, as in this November 17 column. 

As it turns out, Glenn’s Christmas column was his last for the newspaper.

Glenn has forwarded a copy of the message he sent his Aspen Times editor in response to the notice of termination:

Dave,
I want to thank you, your other editors and Swift Communications for publishing my column the last seven years. It was a privilege for me.
...I was under the impression that the column was successful. That’s despite — or perhaps because — it was outside the comfort zone of many of your readers. You yourself complimented my column on numerous occasions. It obviously generated far more clicks and commentary than other columns. It was sometimes picked up by national outlets such as RealClearPolitics. And other newspapers within Swift often reprinted it.
I was therefore surprised by your email. Unpredicated on any discussion between us, you announced that after seven years my column is contrary to the newspaper’s values. And then you took some parting shots at me and my writing.
I was also disappointed that this endeavor for which I never accepted any payment, and on which I spent literally thousands of hours over the last seven years and never missed a deadline, was terminated in an email rather than in person or at least by telephone. And without even a perfunctory “thank you for your work.”...

Glenn can be reached at theAspenbeat@gmail.com. 

We wish him the best as he carries on after his close encounter with the Orwellian face of liberation on the left."

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