Essential Estrogen

I've been out of the loop with a nasty cold and then a day-long conference, but I was still shocked when I read at ThinkProgress that Maj. Gen. Batiste was fired by CBS for work with VoteVets.org and their new ad campaign.

He was interviewed by Keith Olbermann on Countdown just one day after we (and the rest of the blogosphere) announced the new ad and plea for donations. Here's the YouTube clip:

While this could be due to contract constraints or other such legalities, it still begs the question of what would have happened if he had appeared in an ad praising the current Iraq strategy.