I'm not defending his talk. I'm indicating that his firing isn't necessarily an objective measure of it's 'offensiveness', rather simply a measure of the polit

I'm not defending his talk. I'm indicating that his firing isn't necessarily an objective measure of it's 'offensiveness', rather simply a measure of the political sensitivity of the situation. Given that it was as other posters have indicated kind of a surprise 'gotcha' presentation etc. - it was obviously out of line. I would probably have severed relationships as well were I in charge of the situation. But an even better approach would be to address the information in the presentation, because it's going to 'get around' (i.e. the shock value of the presentation means it made the news cycle!).