About That Tweet That Got Me Fired

Back in July, FTVLive told you that KUSA (Denver) has parted ways with their Meteorologist Marty Coniglio after he posted this tweet.

Coniglio has now written a piece for Westword saying why he did it?

Speaking about KUSA, Coniglio writes that the station, “did the right thing in firing me. They set the rules, standards of conduct, and guidelines for content. Break them and you pay. I did and I did.”

He writes, “Regardless of how you label yourself politically, it should be horrifying to see the relentless assault on truth that engages most of our current president’s time and energy.”

And finally, he gets to the reason he posted the tweet. “I watched masked, unidentified men in camouflage grabbing people off of the streets of Portland without ever identifying themselves or the authority under which they were operating. I watched the president say that he would deploy similar forces to cities and states governed by his political rivals. This would in essence be a national police force used for “law and order” at the behest of one political party over the objections of local elected officials. Sorry, folks: That ain’t conservative, small government no matter how you spin it.”

He then wrote this:

It was at that moment I realized that maintaining a high-prestige job with a comfortable lifestyle and predictable future was not the most important thing to me. The idea of what America is — self-government, equal access under the law, equal justice under the law, respect for truth: Those were the things that were the most important to me.

I ask everyone who reads this to think about the ideal of what America was intended to be, the promise that America has the potential to afford to all of us and, while recognizing that we have yet to fully realize the potential of America, realize that it is worth sacrifice to aspire to the lofty goals our Founding Fathers set for us.

Better to be a good American than a good employee.

You can read his full take here.