And here we started to think that rage was confined to talk radio, mega-partisan Congressional debates and Fox News-promoted tea parties? Rage reigned supreme when Donald Trump fired Melissa Rivers from The Celebrity Apprentice…double rage since let’s just say her mother Joan was not pleased, either:
UPDATE: The New York Daily News has more details about what happened and the context..including the fact that the younger Rivers did go back for a final interview:
What the viewers initially saw suggested Roderick might go. That is, until Trump handed Jim Cramer – the CNBC host sitting in on the boardroom – a note saying Rivers should be fired.
She initially refused to do a post-firing interview, but said she went back the next day.
“I really wanted to take a deep breath,” Rivers said. “It had been a very difficult few weeks of being attacked emotionally and personally. There’s only so much you can take.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.