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Speaker 1: So was Tonkin and Taylor right to apologize to Winston

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Speaker 1: Peters for the employee heckling him. Yes, of course they were.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to get associated with that

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Speaker 1: kind of behavior, do they. This guy was wearing a

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Speaker 1: work lanyard. It clearly identified him as a staffer. I

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Speaker 1: had after mentioning it on the show yesterday, I had

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Speaker 1: his name and photo land in my inbox at four

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Speaker 1: forty one, that is yesterday afternoon, obviously, Which is to say,

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Speaker 1: the reason I'm telling you this is that people it

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Speaker 1: didn't take people very long to figure out who he

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Speaker 1: was and who he works for, And if Tonkin and

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Speaker 1: Taylor had said nothing, rightly or wrongly, there would be

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Speaker 1: people who would assume that they were fine with his behavior,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps even that they shared his views. So it

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Speaker 1: was actually a reputational risk for them to remain quiet,

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Speaker 1: and they were right to publicly distance themselves from him,

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Speaker 1: and an apology to Winston seems like a perfect, perfectly

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Speaker 1: reasonable way of publicly distancing themselves from him. I think

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Speaker 1: it is also perfectly reasonable for them to call old

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Speaker 1: mate Bollocks into the office and remind him not to

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Speaker 1: embarrass them when he's wearing a work lan Yet I

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Speaker 1: think that also seems like a fair thing to do.

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Speaker 1: But I think that is where it needs to end.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Free Speech Union raise some very decent points.

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Speaker 1: He should not be punished or fired for what he did.

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Speaker 1: He is entitled to his views. He's entitled to make

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Speaker 1: a complete dick of himself in his own time if

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Speaker 1: he wants to, which obviously he did want to do.

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Speaker 1: His free speech on this matter should be defended, but

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Speaker 1: so should the free speech of the chief executive who

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Speaker 1: didn't like what she saw and wanted to say she

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Speaker 1: was sorry on behalf of her company. Free speech cuts

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