I guess Brian Ross wouldn’t be googling sites for Vester Lee Flanagan. He was written up for wearing an Obama sticker at WDBJ in November 2012. Only the Huffington Post is reporting that Vester Lee Flanagan was wearing an Obama sticker in 2012. None of the other ‘good journalists’ are reporting this. If Obama had a son, he’d undoubtedly look like Vester Lee Flanagan.
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In a performance review in August 2012, Flanagan was given a “1,” the lowest rating, for being “respectful to coworkers at all times,” but a “4” for work diligence and attendance. He was written up in November 2012 for wearing a Barack Obama sticker.
By the end of that year, his supervisor was expressing dissatisfaction with the quality of Flanagan’s work, as well as his attitude towards his co-workers. Dan Dennison, the station’s news director at the time, cited a story in which Flanagan reported on a local church’s response to the mass shooting at Newtown, Connecticut.
“You often state the obvious: ‘people are saddened and concerned.’ Of course they are,” Dennison said in a memo, pointing out that Flanagan had opted to report the story from the station’s studio rather than live from the church. “This story … had the subject material to be interesting and memorable. Instead it was predictable and pedestrian.”