Back in March, I covered the Tomi Lahren situation. To recap, Tomi is a “celebrity conservative pundit,” in that she’s young, blonde, hateful and nasty. She’s anti-feminist, she’s a racist, a homophobe, a bigot and a word-salad-spinning malfunctioning fembot in the grand tradition of Sarah Palin. Tomi rose to fame as a commentator on The Blaze, a Glenn Beck-owned media outlet. Well, in March, Tomi was suspended and then sort-of fired from The Blaze. Was it all the sh-t she said about Black Lives Matter? Was it all the sh-t she said about gay people? No and no. She was suspended and fired for expressing one pro-choice thought. One thought, one time, in one interview. And that was a bridge too far for Glenn Beck and The Blaze. Well, now Aryan Princess Tomi Lahren is suing Glenn Beck for wrongful termination.
Tomi Lahren, the outspoken conservative commentator, is suing her former boss and workplace, Glenn Beck and The Blaze, alleging wrongful termination. The suit, filed in Texas Friday, alleges that Beck and The Blaze got rid of Lahren and her nightly talk show due to her making pro-choice comments on “The View” last month.
“I can’t sit here and be a hypocrite and say I’m for limited government but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies,” she said on the broadcast.
Lahren, who is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and arguably one the most notable names at The Blaze other than Beck himself, was suspended — along with her show — for a week following those comments. According to the suit, Lahren then received a call from The Blaze that “her employment was terminated” and “she would have no more shows.”
“She is very disappointed that she is having to pursue ligation,” Lahren’s lawyer, Brian Lauten, told CNN. “The fact of the matter is that she was wrongfully terminated. The contract simply doesn’t allow The Blaze to terminate her for expressing her personal opinion on the salient issue of abortion.”
“Lay down and play dead really isn’t my style. #FinalThoughts,” Lahren herself tweeted after the suit was filed on Friday.
A statement released by The Blaze said, “It is puzzling that an employee who remains under contract (and is still being paid) has sued us for being fired, especially when we continue to comply fully with the terms of our agreement with her.”
The suit acknowledges that Lahren is still being paid, but alleges that The Blaze has done so “presumably hoping they could find an exit strategy to sanitize their unlawful conduct under the Employment Contract.” In the lawsuit, Lahren also accuses Beck and The Blaze of a “public smear campaign” against her, “chastising her political views and opinions in a clear attempt to embarrass, humiliate, and undermine [Lahren’s] reach to her audience on social media and elsewhere.”
Once I stopped laughing at the absurdity and irony, I can admit that sure, Tomi should not be fired over expressing one nuanced thought about abortion. She especially shouldn’t lose her job over that one thing if that’s literally the only sh-t Glenn Beck took issue with. Like, fire her because she’s a racist, homophobic troll, amirite? But whatever. Counterpoint: With these people, I thought corporations were people and corporations had religious and political rights? If The Blaze has religious and political rights, then they have the right to fire someone for not agreeing with them. The Blaze also has the right to not pay for Tomi’s healthcare because she’s obviously a pro-abortion slut (see how that works, Tomi?). I also think that “wrongful termination” probably won’t stand up because, as The Blaze points out, Tomi is still technically employed and being paid. In any case… this should get interesting.
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I sincerely hope you get the “justice” you wish on others
Exactly. She deserves as much sympathy as she has for mothers and children fleeing gang violence in Central America.
Although she’s still being paid, it doesn’t sound like Tomi is actually working for them. It’s weird that she’s been technically fired for one comment. I don’t think Tomi is pro-choice. Didn’t she only say she didn’t want the government to tell her what she could do with her body? That’s far from being pro-choice. Except for one comment, she’s been very pro life.
Tomi was benched or fired for verbalizing the conservative lie. The reality is they don’t really care about abortion, they just know that pretending to care about abortion mobilizes their base. The reality is that conservatives believe in having the availability of abortion for the rich and not for anyone else.
She’s more libertarian in my opinion. Who knows if she would or wouldn’t have an abortion and who cares? She’s prochoice and I believe her. But from the libertarian POV she doesn’t want to pay for others to get one.
I wish I could feel sympathy for her, but I don’t- she doesn’t have any for others
It says something that she hasn’t thrown her “special snowflakes want to censor people” nonsense in Beck’s face. All she has to do is call him a censoring cuck and that should disarm him. But then she’d have to admit her whole schtick is contradictory horse pucky and she’s not bright enough for that.
If she was clever that’s what she should have done. She could have gone with that argument and pulled in the part of her demographic that disagreed the Blaze’s decision. As much these people always go on about the ‘censorship’ of the left, they are not tolerant to views that oppose their own. Every argument they use can be used against them
It does seem like cuck has become the ultimate insult to and by the alt-right. Not that Beck is alt-right but god I bet he’d go nuts if she called him one.
I don’t follow her or The Blaze but I though I’d heard that Beck had an epiphany of sorts and was no longer pushing his crazy, hateful agenda. Guess I must have misheard.
Well he was one of the few right wingers to continually speak out against trump
I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She’s pissed because SHE was called out on something, and that’s it.
If she’s so pro-choice, she should probably stop supporting the guy (and party) doing everything in their power to reduce women to little else than brood animals.
I’m sure Fox News is even now trying to find a place for her. Someone will need to take over for Ann Coulter at some point.
Sounds like a publicity stunt all around.
Whether or not her lawsuit succeeds will depend on the terms of her employment contract. Just because she is still “technically” an employee and still being paid does not mean that her wrongful termination claim automatically fails.
@Bearcatt, I am curious as well. I dont know this Tomi person, but I feel a pang for anyone fired unlawfully or pushed out (which happens ALL of the time). Because it is awful to go through..
Nah, this is bullshit. You don’t get to make a living spouting hate and then complain when the people who employ you, those who allow you to spout hate, let you go. You should have known these were the people you work for.
The Blaze has silenced her. They will make her sit at home for the rest of her contract with pay, unable to do media or promote herself, as she is still there employee. For expressing her opinion on abortion, she is being silenced for 6 months.
I’d tell her to hire Gloria Allred, but Tomi doesn’t think women or minorities are discriminated or disadvantaged in the workplace. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.
And pretty soon she will be talking about what a feminist she is, how hard it for her because of her gender, blah, blah, blah.
Since I first saw this one, I thought she was mediocre at best. I wish we humans (myself included) could get over the idea that the inside surely must match the outside, that people who are beautiful can and do indeed say hideously ugly things. Take everyone tripping all over themselves with the “Save Melania” nonsense. Her outside doesn’t match the inside, but if Melania’s inner workings took physical form, you’d take a blowtorch to it a la the alien in John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
Also, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
All of this is a long way to say BYEEEEEEEE, Tomi.
I honestly think the same liberals/non-conservative people who are on the ‘Save Melania’ train would still be on it if she was a really homely-looking person, in part because of what’s out there about Trump’s history with women and in part because they want to hold out hope that a shitty person’s family might not be so bad. Melania (to me) also isn’t pretty enough for her looks to effect people in that way. She’s not ugly, but she’s not some Beauty either, and has a sort of overworked plastic look to her.
I understand what you’re saying, but to me, while she’s not ugly at all, her outside is from someone who says things she does. . She has that overly glossy, irksome beauty, like those obnoxious cheerleaders characters.
I Wish I could Find a F*ck so I could give it to her Joe-from- Family Guy- Jawed Self But… Here we reside… F*ck Deficient and Unable to Can http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Unable-toucan.gif
I wonder if she can hear the world’s smallest violin playing from my house.
Wow, you mean her ultra blonde hair and generically pretty face were not enough to insulate her against the wrath of powerful men? Say it isn’t so!
Karma is a lovely thing.
I just came here to say she really needs to lay off the spray tan.
For real!
It’s kind of gross how these same people who fall over themselves to be extra censorious and ‘politically correct’ about views and behaviors they see as harmful to a cluster of cells, or disrespectful of the anthem or the flag, have not a fuck to give about beliefs and practices that are harmful, dangerous, and deadly to ACTUAL living, thinking, feeling human beings, because it shows just how much ‘lesser’ certain groups of people are really seen by them. There are people whose ‘beliefs’ basically boil down to the idea that unless you’re a cishet white male, and preferably from the ‘right’ parts of the world or even practicing the ‘right’ kind of religion, a fertilized egg, a certain piece of cloth, or a song is more important than you. So gross.
She was so desperate to be “somebody”. Well Tomi, now you’re somebody that got fired for being a woman, willing to sell your soul for the spotlight. Now, all you have to do is learn how to walk in six-inch stilettos, with short-short skirts, sit on a sofa, with your legs crossed for hours at a time, while you dodge the constant sexual advances from your white-white male co-anchors, and hysterically laugh like a Stepford Wife, when they repeat lame-ass jokes about Barack Obama, and sell yourself to Fox News.