British Talk Show Host Fired After Urging Listeners to Vote for Boris Johnson

Talk radio must be really lame in the UK if you can be fired for recommending a candidate to your listeners.

Naturally, he's a rightwing host--I guess nobody listens to the left over there, either--and there's some ridiculous watchdog group that makes its business censoring what people can say.

Believe me, if the left could get away this this nonsense in this country, they'll do it in a heartbeat.

Imagine droll, unlistenable radio all day long (think NPR), with no Operation Chaos to drive the libs insane.

Controversial radio presenter James Whale has been sacked for urging his Talksport listeners to vote for Boris Johnson.

His comments during a show on March 20 had sparked a number of complaints to the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.

There are clear rules forbidding broadcasters from election bias--and although the Ofcom investigation is yet to finish, Talksport mounted its own inquiry and dismissed the veteran presenter.

By the same token, if we actually did forbid broadcast outlets from pre-election bias, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC would have gone out of business years ago.

Yorkshire-based Mr Whale, 56, had worked for the station since it was launched as Talk Radio in 1995.

His show went out between 10pm to 1am, Monday to Thursday .

An outspoken right-winger with a long history of courting controversy, he had considered standing for mayor himself, before publicly pledging support for Mr Johnson.

Apparently a majority of Londoners concur with Whale since Red Ken Livingstone was sent packing last week.

Maybe someone can organize a Save the Whale campaign on his behalf.

Here's his Wikipedia page and his website.